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01 Jun, 2022
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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
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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - October Monthly Session

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - October Monthly Session

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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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

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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06 Jul, 2022
Online
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
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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22 Jun, 2022
Webinar
Open Webinar: India SME Financing – Challenges & Opportunities for Impact Financers

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...
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14 Jun, 2022
Online
Virtual Roundtable: Leveraging Private Sector Investment to Promote MSME

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...
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12 Jun, 2022
Webinar
Virtual Workshop: Transition Digitalizing Supply chain finance

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...
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08 Jun, 2022
Online
Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) - Alternative Data on New Customers

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...
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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...
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23 May, 2022
Online
6th International MENA Credit Guarantee Conference - Virtual Event

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...
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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
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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20 Apr, 2022
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AgriFinance Community of Practice (CoP) - Climate Smart Agricultural Finance

Rural & Agriculture Finance
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...
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13 Apr, 2022
Webinar
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Open Webinar: The Future of Finance for Women SMEs

Gender Finance
¡Con interpretación en vivo ESPAÑOL<>ENGLISH! Interpretation en français disponible! С синхронным переводом АНГЛИЙСКИЙ<>РУССКИЙ 伴有同声传译。 مع ترجمة فورية بين العربية والإنجليزية Women are a driving force for the economies in which they...
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06 Apr, 2022
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Handshake with sign SME Finance Marketplace April session with Fintech on April 6th, 2022

CANCELLED - SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - April Monthly Session

Supply & Value Chain Finance
This session has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Please refer to our Event calendar for our next session in May here. **** The “SME Finance Virtual Marketplace” is an online match-making platform that promotes partnership and...
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23 Mar, 2022
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Women’s Entrepreneurship Finance Community of Practice (CoP) - Bundling Strategies Towards Sustainable Growth

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...
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14 Mar, 2022
Webinar
G20 Database is Open for Submissions!

G20 Database is Open for Submissions!

Digital Financial Services
[G20 DATABASE] The G20 Presidency of Indonesia 2022 and the Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), in partnership with the SME Finance Forum, are building a living database of successful examples of digital and innovative financial...
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09 Mar, 2022
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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - Eight Session - Fintech

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - Eight Session - Fintech

Sustainable Finance
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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02 Mar, 2022
Webinar
G20 Workshop on Digital and Innovative Financial Products and Services for MSMEs Beyond Credit

G20 Workshop on Digital and Innovative Financial Products and Services for MSMEs Beyond Credit

Gender Finance
Youth Entrepreneurship
Digital Transformation
The G20 countries’ Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion and the Indonesia G20 Presidency are organizing the G20 Workshop on Digital and Innovative Financial Products and Services for MSMEs Beyond Credit. The two-hour virtual workshop will take...
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23 Feb, 2022
Online
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Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) - 2022 Meeting. From Judgment to Scorecard – Key First Steps

Credit Risk & Scoring
The Risk Management Community of Practice (CoP) is a Member-Only event and it aims to bring together professionals and risk management experts from member institutions of the SME Finance Forum to share their learning, experiences, and good practices...
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16 Feb, 2022
Online
Handshake with sign SME Finance Marketplace 7th session with Fintech on February 16th, 2021

SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - Seventh Session - Fintech

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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02 Feb, 2022
Webinar
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Open Webinar: Beyond Funding, What Women Need to Advance Their Businesses?

“Examining critical Financial and Business Support Services” 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...
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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...
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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...
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12 Jan, 2022
Webinar
Handshake with sign SME Finance Marketplace 6th session with Investors on January 12th, 2021

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...
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31 Dec, 2021
Immersion Programs

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...
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31 Dec, 2021
Communities of Practice

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...
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31 Dec, 2021
Study Visits

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,...
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31 Dec, 2021
Online
Member Spotlights

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...
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29 Dec, 2021
COVID-19 Roundtables

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...
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29 Dec, 2021
Webinar
Monthly Webinars

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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08 Dec, 2021
Webinar
2021 SME Finance Forum Members’ Meeting

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 updated Agenda here > Members register below> The SME Finance Forum...
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