SME Finance Forum Welcomes SEEM, a Fintech and Sustainability Consulting company to its Global Network
SME Finance Forum today announced that SEEM a Fintech and Sustainability Consulting company has joined its global network of more than 250 SME finance institutions and industry stakeholders across 190 countries working to expand access to finance for small businesses worldwide SEEM also serves large corporations and other FIs.
"We are delighted to welcome SEEM as our newest member. Together, we share a vision of empowering MSMEs and advancing sustainable finance through purpose-led transformation and inclusive, responsible growth. We look forward to collaborating on innovative solutions and drawing on SEEM's deep expertise in fintech, holistic credit risk, sustainability consulting to accelerate impact at scale," said Qamar Saleem, Head of SME Finance Forum.
SEEM, a Fintech and Sustainability Consulting company, helps financial institutions and corporations discover their purpose and capitalize on doing good in mainstream businesses and the new culture. It supports entities discover their purpose and transform through digital, AI, technology, innovation, scale-ups, purpose-driven direct/indirect impacts, sustainable finance, culture shift, and helps them access/deploy capital across lending, borrowing, and assets, covering loans, bonds, funds, indices, equities, etc. with their sustainable variations, while leveraging grants, guarantees, concessional finance, etc. and mobilizing private capital at scale and speed.
SEEM further supports financial institutions and corporations in deploying and disclosing their SEEM-STPs (Sustainability Transition Plans), which include Purpose Discovery and universal ESG metrics with comparable sustainability performance. Thus enables entities to thrive, grow, and become sustainable for the long term.
SEEM operates across three pillars. Its first pillar, SEEM-MSME, is a B2B2C marketplace for Micro&Small Producers and Enterprises (MSPEs), Partners, Lenders, and Guarantors, providing the MSPEs with its non-financial services and helping them access capital. On this platform the lenders and guarantors leverage SEEM's holistic credit risk rating and underwriting addressing inclusion, bias, fraud and ESG when available.
Its second pillar, SEEM-Platform, serves medium and large corporations and financial institutions. It provides them with entity-level systemic change on the foundations of its transformation methodology CTM (Change through Movement) centred on entities’ purpose for digital transformation, innovation, culture-shift, sustainable finance etc. Its key products are regTech application Compliance by Design (CBD) for corporate and investment banks extendable to others, holistic credit risk rating and underwriting addressing inclusion, fraud, bias and with/without ESG as standalone or part of CBD, and SEEM STPs (Sustainability Transition Plans) including Purpose Discovery and universal ESG metrics with self-disclosed sustainability performance and platform assigned comparable sustainability rating.
Its third pillar delivers the training curriculum for universities and business schools on the principles of transformation methodology CTM (Change through Movement) centered on entities' purpose for digital transformation, innovation, culture shift, etc., and entities’ comparable sustainability performance and holistic sustainable finance.
Thus SEEM is helping address Inclusion, MSME credit gap, Financial Stability, Money Laundering, Financial Crime, 2030 SDGs and 1.5 degrees Climate Pathway.
SEEM subsidiaries with global HQ in Mumbai (SEEM Fintech and Sustainability Consulting Pvt Ltd) and a possible counterpart in Dubai, operate in disjoint jurisdictions designed while keeping in view their local regions.
"Joining SME Finance Forum is like a door opening to the global network you need to serve the MSME sector as a Fintech and Sustainability Consulting company. I treasure this opportunity and look forward to a rewarding journey ahead." – Seema Sutradhar, Founder & CEO, SEEM, a Fintech and Sustainability Consulting company (global HQ in Mumbai with a possible counterpart in Dubai).
SME Finance Forum: Innovation & Partnership for MSME Growth
The SME Finance Forum, backed by G20 and IFC/World Bank, is the leading global network of more than 250 members and affiliates operating in 190 countries. The network comprises SME-focused institutions providing and enabling finance and services, including banks, non-bank financial institutions, fintechs, payment platforms, development institutions, credit guarantee companies, insurers, investment funds, supply-chain players, banking and SME associations, policy advocates, regulators, academia, consulting firms, and knowledge aggregators.
Members, affiliates, and associated stakeholders benefit from learning and replicating best practices from around the world, innovating new products for growth, accessing risk mitigation tools, establishing partnerships, attracting investors, and gaining recognition among a global peer group of innovators.
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