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Join us on on October 26-28, 2020 for our 2020 Global SME Finance Forum Conference, this year on our Virtual Edition. The theme of this year's Global SME Finance Forum is "SME Finance Outlook 2030". To celebrate the new decade, we will look much further forward to imagine where we might be in SME financing a decade from now. Over 700 senior executives from 300+ institutions (banks, development finance institutions, fintech, and real sector companies) and 80+ countries are expected to participate online.
The virtual edition of the flagship annual event will be held over three consecutive half-days, and will be accessible to all SME finance experts for free.
This is the largest, most high-level, most technically in-depth meeting on the financing of SMEs that occurs anywhere in the world each year!
Read more: https://www.globalsmefinanceforum.org/2020/
To celebrate the new decade, this year’s Global SME Finance Forum will look much farther forward, to imagine where we might be in SME financing a decade from now. We will test the limits of our prescience by predicting how products, delivery channels, institutions and enabling environments might look 10 years from now.
Following our practice of leveraging as much knowledge sharing as we can from our membership and our wider public audience, we will launch a public "Call for Insights" on what SME finance will look like in 2030. Best articles will be shared in a special report to be issued at the conference, and the authors will be considered for speaking roles at the event.
Submission Guidelines for Participants
What will SME financing look like in 2030? What will profoundly influence its ecosystem? Will unexpected players dominate the market? How different will SME financing be in 10 years from now?
With the start of this new decade, the SME Finance Forum seeks thought-provoking, creative and impactful insights to help shape the debate on the future of finance for SMEs. We are encouraging participants to share their unique visions in 500-1,000-word essays.
Authors of all submissions that are selected by our panel of judges will receive a complimentary ticket to the Global SME Finance Forum Conference 2020 - Virtual Edition, October 26-28 – where we will launch a new publication containing the insights. The most outstanding authors will be invited to address this meeting, and to share their perspectives with senior leaders from the World Bank and IFC (either during the event or at the Annual/Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group).
Possible questions to consider (although any and all visions are encouraged):
Submission requirements:
To learn more about our selection criteria, please review our Frequently Asked Questions.
Leading fintech operating in the field of supply chain, especially focused on SMEs. C2FO operates globally.
Global services company that provides a suite of payment and lending products, solutions for travel and everyday business spending, cross border payments, global currency solutions, and business financing.
British International Investment (ex CDC Group) is UK’s development finance institution and wholly owned by the UK government. It supports businesses throughout Africa and South Asia.
Leading international banking group that operates across Asia, Africa and the Middle East to bank people and companies driving investment, trade and creation of wealth.
Digital innovations organization which creates digital properties for businesses to leverage and separately offers digital solutions to businesses for greater effectiveness.
Global information services company providing data and analytical tools to help businesses manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers and automate decision making.
MasterCard’s principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card issuing banks of the purchasers who use the "MasterCard" brand debit and credit cards to make purchases.
