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Jessica Alfaro

Jessica Alfaro is a Financial Sector Specialist for the SME Finance Forum. Jessica has over 10 years’ experience working with MSMEs and is an expert in lending, entrepreneurship and finance. Based in Madrid, she is currently a consultant with the World Bank Group and a Visiting Lecturer in the School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.

Podcast: SME Challengers - Breaking Banks Europe

Feb 03, 2020
Breaking Banks Europe - Ep 8

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SME businesses are "under-banked" in Europe. Why do incumbent banks find it so hard to bank with SMEs? What are the risks?

The under-banked status of European SMEs creates niches of opportunities in the market. What are they? What are the opportunities?

Listen in this podcast three formidable hosts share their views from an SME challenger financial services perspective as well as from an eco-system view.

Our financial specialist, Jessica Alfaro, participated in the podcast. Listen to her comments on 7:20m

 

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