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SME Finance Virtual Marketplace - June 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/ 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?
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June Marketplace Session
This eleventh marketplace session, scheduled on Wednesday, June 1st from 8 am - 9:00 EDT, will feature a series of members who will present their products/services.
Following the presentations, participants will have the opportunities to reach out directly to the presenting institutions to make inquiries or explore partnership opportunities based on their interests.
Access Bank
Ayo Olojede is the Group Head, Emerging Businesses at Access Bank. She is responsible for the strategy formulation to deliver the bottom-line factor of the division. Ayo has over 20 years operational banking experience in Africa and North America at HSBC and Skye Bank (now Polaris) prior to joining Access Bank. She is very passionate about the sustainable growth of MSMEs and possesses strong knowledge and hands on experience of best practices in SME banking, value propositions and risk management approaches to expand financial access to SMEs and women led businesses. Her work has achieved recognition for “best in class” SME specific credit assessment methodology both locally and internationally to expand lending to “new to Borrowing” SMEs. She is a member of the bank’s Digital Council which has overall responsibility for the bank’s digital strategy, approved partnership with fintech companies and monitoring the implementation of digital initiatives. She is a university scholar, a Fellow Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management, Evanston. She speaks globally on SME Finance and Business services.
C2FO
Colin Sharp leads C2FO’s Global business working closely with customers, partners and banks to deliver exceptional value. Colin also acts as President for C2FO’s National Working Capital Platform initiative, working with governments and policy makers to ensure that companies, particularly SME’s, have access to the capital they need. Colin represents C2FO on the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) SME Finance Forum, working to expand access to finance for small and medium businesses and attends the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator. A veteran of the enterprise software industry, Colin has held leadership roles in some of the world’s top software companies. Prior to C2FO, Colin spent many years at SAP, heading a number of business areas and a member of the SAP UKI Exec Board. Colin holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Masters Degree in Computer Science. He lives in the UK with his wife, Joanne two children, Ben and Emma, together with Jack and cat and Dexter the dog!
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