This year, TUMSIAD will host Conference on “Leveraging Islamic Finance for SMEs” that is jointly organized with The World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, and Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Undersecretariat of Treasury under the scope of Turke
The mission of the AFRICA SME CHAMPIONS FORUM, Nairobi 2015 is to enable about 300 high-growth African SMEs (the Champions of tomorrow) across the continent, to meet the best financial institutions in order to facilitate the mobilization of their funding.
Organized by the SME Banking Club, this event will focus on digital banking for SMEs. New payment technologies for SMEs, digital and mobile solutions for business customers, e-banking, multichannel strategy, and the role of branches in the future will be topics of discussions and presentations.
Now on its 14th year, the GBA Summit is the only banking conference of its kind—focusing exclusively on the power of the Women's Market.
The 2015 GBA Summit will kick off with a first-of-its-kind Global Data Symposium, which will offer a forum for participants to discuss challenges and opportunities around the collection and use of data on the contribution of the Women's Market to the bottom line. Subsequent panels and interactive discussions will cover a number of additional topics, including:
Of the 21 countries ranked in the 2015 Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) Report and Scorecard, no countries in Asia placed in the top 5 in the overall ranking. However, all of the FDIP Asian countries have demonstrated progress within at least one of the four dimensions of the 2015 Scorecard: country commitment, mobile capacity, regulatory environment, and adoption of traditional and digital financial services.
On September 9, the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) brought together policymakers, financial service providers and researchers to discuss key trends and gaps in agricultural finance.
This new study of #M-PESA in Kenya finds that mobile money technology alleviates small firms’ financing constraints, leading to faster economic growth. By allowing easier access to larger amounts of trade credit, mobile money allows firms higher production, with important macroeconomic repercussions, according to this research by Thorsten Beck, Haki Pamuk, Ravindra Ramrattan, and Burak Uras:
We are faced with a big challenge. The recent economic downturn eliminated 67 million jobs globally and saw trillions of dollars of wealth disappear. To add to this, emerging countries need to create another 600 million jobs by 2020, mainly in Asia and Africa, just to keep employment rates constant. So how can we generate employment and spur economic growth?
Think small.
While supporting small and medium enterprises may easily be seen as a solely economic matter, it’s actually also a development issue.
The urgent challenge of generating jobs and incomes – as the world’s working-
