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01 Dec, 2021

Online

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Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance Community of Practice (CoP) - Leveraging Alternative Data

Gender Finance

Background The objective of the new Women Entrepreneurs Financing Community of Practice (CoP) is to effectively share knowledge and best practices, tools and innovative products to facilitate increased services to W-SMEs. To discuss and agree on how best to build a sustainable community of practice, we organized the first meeting on December 16th, 2020. Its purpose was to discuss and agree on priority areas of focus and how to best structure the CoP to serve memberson how best to build a sustainable community to effectively share lessons learned on how to increase financial services to W-SMEs...

Member Spotlights

Monthly Webinars

COVID-19 Roundtables

Communities of Practice

Leader Dialogue Series

Annual Conferences

Immersion Programs

Study Visits

31 Dec, 2021

Immersion Programs

The SME Finance Forum's Immersion Programs are aimed at providing our members with 1-2 day exposure visits to high performing regional or global financial institutions or fintechs to gather in depth knowledge about an innovative aspect of their...

31 Dec, 2021

Communities of Practice

With strong interests and requests from members, the SME Finance Forum has launched communities of practices (CoPs) to allow experts and practitioners from member institutions to share knowledge and good practices in their respective areas with one...

31 Dec, 2021

Study Visits

The SME Finance Forum's study visits are an integral part of the peer learning opportunities to know more about the latest fintech innovations and good practice in SME banking and non-financial services from local institutions. During these visits,...

31 Dec, 2021

Online

Member Spotlights

The Member Spotlight is intended for individual member institutions to showcase their good practice examples that are relevant and useful to the global community of SME financiers. With a webinar-style format, sessions are designed and delivered by...

29 Dec, 2021

COVID-19 Roundtables

Covid-19

During this time of unprecedented crisis, the SME Finance Forum, as a global SME finance community, is committed to supporting its members and partners. In this repository, we will share resources, events, and other vital information relevant to the...

29 Dec, 2021

Webinar

Monthly Webinars

Each month the SME Finance Forum organizes webinars for its members. Members can tune in to the webinars via WebEx or Zoom. The webinars are designed to be interactive and we encourage members to ask questions and engage in a discussion with the...

08 Dec, 2021

Webinar

2021 SME Finance Forum Members’ Meeting

Registration for the 2021 Members' Meeting of SME Finance Forum is now open. This years' Members' Meeting will be held on December 8th, from 8:00 to 10:00 AM EDT. Check the Preliminary Agenda here > Members register below> The SME Finance...

01 Dec, 2021

Online

Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance Community of Practice (CoP) - Leveraging Alternative Data

Gender Finance

17 Nov, 2021

Online

Woman with a laptop and a phone with pay image on screen

Member Spotlight with vcita: Driving the adoption of digital payments for SMEs

Payments

Member Spotlight #10 with vcita: Driving the adoption of digital payments for SMEs Digital payments are everywhere, so it seems, in recent years, and for many consumers these became the norm in the last couple of years through an increase in...

11 Nov, 2021

Webinar

Virtual Handshake announcing Fifth session in November 11th, 2021

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - Fifth Session - Fintechs

Fintech

The “SME Finance Virtual Marketplace” is an online match-making platform that promotes partnership and collaboration between members of the SME Finance Forum, especially financial institutions, fintech companies and development finance institutions...

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