Hafid Oubrik, financial sector specialist at the Arab Monetary Fund outlines the importance of infrastructure reforms to support enhanced access to finance for SMEs. He details the reforms supervised in MENA by IFC and the Arab Monetary Fund regarding securities and payment systems, credit reporting and secured transactions.

This presentation was given during a conference jointly organized by The Arab Monetary Fund and IFC on “Building a High Performance Small Medium Enterprise Business in the Arab World” on 7-8 May 2013 in Dubai, UAE.