SME Finance Forum member Strands Finance asked SME Banking experts to share their predictions with them. Here’s a preview of what the best in Fintech have to say about the coming year in SME Finance Management.
See responses from our very own Matthew Gamser and Minerva Kotei, as well as from members Strands and Mastercard.
This PPIAF-funded report aims to discuss and disseminate information on how Islamic finance has been applied in infrastructure projects through PPP schemes, what the structural challenges and solutions are, and what can be done to deepen and maximize the use of Islamic finance for this purpose. This report has two broad dimensions.
Traditional approaches to ongoing loan management have included separate systems for Collections, Loan Loss Provisioning, Customer Retention, Cross Selling, Line Management, Financial Forecasting, as well as Stress Testing & Scenario Analysis. Digitization of the loan process allows all of these analytical, targeting and reporting efforts under one objective process, delivering greater accuracy and efficiency.
SME Finance Forum members Strands Finance and CBA have long been at the forefront of banking innovation in Africa. In this video, Strands talks about the future of African Banking, SME Banking and their digital transformation to stay ahead of the competition. Strands and CBA’s ambitious digital breakthrough into the African market has placed CBA firmly in pole position in the region’s financial sector, doing more in six months to digitalize their banking efforts, than in the bank’s considerable history.
The evidence that women both drive agricultural production and rely on it for their livelihoods means that greater financial and informational service provision to women, especially through digital channels, could increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their labor. While the numerous barriers to women’s access to Digital financial Services (DFS) are clear, clarifying the best methodologies by which to overcome these is both dependent on situational context and still subject to research and testing.
The Global SME Finance Forum 2017 was held November 1-3 in Berlin, Germany. This annual flagship event organized by the SME Finance Forum presented unique perspectives of industry thought leaders, rich experiences of the successful practitioners, and impactful financial innovations in "Digitization of SME Finance".
Will small business lending fintechs and banks continue to 'fintegrate' in 2018? Representatives from incumbent community banks, small business marketplace lenders, and other fintechs discuss the trend toward forming partnerships to grow market-share in the small business sector.
SME Finance Forum CEO Matthew Gamser will be a part of this roundtable.
This report shows that almost half of Ant Financial Services Group’s 450 million users signed up to Ant Forest, an app that gamifies carbon footprint tracking – cutting greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrating the massive potential of Fintech (financial technology) for supporting sustainable development. By the end of January 2017, the approach had avoided 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, thanks to the accumulation of small behavior changes, with much more to come.
Recognizing their importance in the overall economy, countries around the world have established programs to boost the performance of small and mediumscale enterprises (SME); many of these revolve around the provision of training and/or consulting services.
The 2017 edition of CGAP’s annual Cross-Border Funder Survey reports funding commitments from the 23 largest international funders of financial inclusion, representing 80 percent of the full set of over 54 international funders and 73 percent of the global estimated funding commitments for financial inclusion in 2016.
Major project themes in 2016 included:
