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19 Jan, 2022

Online

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AgriFinance Community of Practice (CoP) - Webinar on Assessing Climate Risk for Agriculture

¡Con interpretación en vivo en ESPAÑOL<>ENGLISH! The SME Finance Forum has created a Community of Practice on Agrifinance, a group of AgriFinance experts and practitioners from member and non-member institutions, to discuss experiences and document good practices and innovations in the field. One main objective of this CoP is to promote learning and sharing of good practice examples that help members improve their offering and better serve the Agri-SMEs. *** To kickstart 2022, the AgriFinance CoP is organizing a webinar on January 19th, 2022 at 8 a.m. EST , on “ Assessing Climate Risk...

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02 Feb, 2022

Webinar

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Open Webinar: Beyond Funding, What Women Need to Advance Their Businesses?

A recent evaluation (1) of a partnership between Women’s World Banking and Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has shown that a combination of financial and business support services for MSMEs provides opportunities for both women-led businesses and...

26 Jan, 2022

Webinar

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Open Webinar: COVID-19 and New Cyber Risk

Covid-19

Data & Cybersecurity

Risk management during COVID has proven challenging on many levels. Financial intuitions have contended with unprecedented uncertainty of outcomes in credit risk, market risk, and operational risk. COVID-19 accelerated digitization, promoting work...

19 Jan, 2022

Online

AgriFinance Community of Practice (CoP) - Webinar on Assessing Climate Risk for Agriculture

12 Jan, 2022

Webinar

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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - Sixth Session - Investors

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...

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...

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