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01 Jun, 2022

Online

Handshake with sign SME Finance Marketplace June session with Members on June 1st, 2022

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - June Monthly Session

Digital Transformation

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/ investors. The virtual Marketplace is powered by GlobalLinker , an AI powered ‘Digital Ecosystem’ offering SMEs a range of services to build digital presence including e-commerce. How does the Marketplace operate? To participate in the marketplace session, each member of the SME Finance Forum must have 1) an institutional profile (company profile...

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05 Oct, 2022

Online

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - October Monthly Session

03 Aug, 2022

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Handshake with sign SME Finance Marketplace April session with Fintech on August 3rd, 2022

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - August Monthly Session

06 Jul, 2022

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Handshake with sign SME Finance Marketplace July session with Members on July 6th, 2022

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - July Monthly Session

Supply & Value Chain Finance

22 Jun, 2022

Webinar

Open Webinar: India SME Financing – Challenges & Opportunities for Impact Financers

Supply & Value Chain Finance

Session Description and objectives Small businesses in India employ over 100 million people or 40% of India’s workforce and account for 29% of India’s GDP and 49% of its exports. The SME Finance gap in India is $221 billion or 10% of its GDP...

14 Jun, 2022

Online

Virtual Roundtable: Leveraging Private Sector Investment to Promote MSME

Sustainable Finance

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ( MSMEs ) play a paramount part in the wider scope of businesses. New business ventures and start-ups, which tend to be small or micro-enterprises, are the main sources of net employment creation in many economies...

12 Jun, 2022

Webinar

Virtual Workshop: Transition Digitalizing Supply chain finance

Supply & Value Chain Finance

Virtual Workshop: Transition Digitalizing Supply chain finance The value of global supply-chain finance (SCF) market remains significantly untapped. According to a recent Mckinsey report, nearly 80 percent of eligible assets do not benefit from...

08 Jun, 2022

Online

Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) - Alternative Data on New Customers

Data & Cybersecurity

Data is the new oil. Since the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digitization and increased the degree of information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers, reliable and timely data became oxygen for financial institutions. Data fuels models for...

01 Jun, 2022

Online

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - June Monthly Session

Digital Transformation

Fintech

23 May, 2022

Online

6th International MENA Credit Guarantee Conference - Virtual Event

Guarantees

Credit Guarantees: A Path to Sustainable SME Recovery - Virtual Event 6th International MENA Regional Conference 2022 – 23 & 24 May 2022 - 1 PM (Qatar Time) GMT+3 REGISTER NOW SMEs play a crucial role in improving any economic development cycle...

04 May, 2022

Webinar

Handshake with sign SME Finance Marketplace May session with Members on May 4th, 2022

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - May Monthly Session

Fintech

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