The United Kingdom's Treasury Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of HM Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs, and associated public bodies, including the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority. On March 6, the committee discussed SME Finance with several individuals working to expand access to finance to SMEs.
SME Finance Forum CEO Matthew Gamser moderates WBAF 2018 Panel: The G20 Agenda on Angel Investment and Early Stage Investment Markets panel, which discusses converting public finance to smart finance in cooperation with angel investors.
BANKNXT's Jason Bates interviews Rishi Khosla, CEO of OakNorth, for this Fintech Insider video, the under-the-radar fintech unicorn in the SME lending space. They discuss OakNorth’s origin story, how they reached profitability within 24 months, the social impact of the SME lending space, and what the future holds for this little-big company with deep roots.
Jason starts by asking Rishi to describe the OakNorth origin story, how he and co-founder Joel Perlman came to found the bank, and the problem they’re solving as a company for the underserved SME market in the UK.
Ning Tang, CEO of fintech firm CreditEase (and a SME Finance Forum member) explains how the company is lending consumers cows in a bid to reach those living in rural areas who might have limited access to credit and financing.
Christoph Rieche of iwoca and George Bevis of Tide discuss how they have teamed up to remove these barriers for small businesses and turn their experience from a pain to a pleasure.
Highlighting the stories of three successful women entrepreneurs, “Taking Women-owned Businesses to the Next Level” focused on the barriers women face when trying to build and expand their businesses.
The session featured Nour Al-Hassan, who transformed her translation business from two employees to more than 200; Win Win Tint, who expanded her family’s single supermarket into a leading modern retail company; and Anta Bathily, who worked her way up from the bottom of her father’s poultry business to lead the company’s efforts to diversify into other agribusiness enterprises.
Silvia Pavoni, Economics Editor of The Banker, talks with Hemant Baijal, Vice President of Global Policy Affairs at Mastercard, about managing fraud and cybersecurity. This interview took place at the SME Finance Forum in Berlin.
Small businesses need financing to grow and create jobs. Matthew Gamser, the CEO of the SME Finance Forum, discusses the staggering $5.2 trillion financing gap for micro, small and medium enterprises and what governments, banks and fintech companies can do to address this. The interview took place at the Global SME Finance Forum 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
On October 16th, CGAP hosted a panel discussion on the potential of regulatory sandboxes for financial inclusion.
Regulatory sandboxes are gaining popularity, mostly in developed markets, as a safe space where FinTech startups and other innovators can experiment under the watchful eye of a financial supervisor. Could they be useful in emerging markets and developing economies to advance FinTech innovations that benefit unserved and underserved customers?
African entrepreneurs with special focus on digital financial solutions for agriculture are performing below expectations due to the lack of adequate business knowledge to be relevant to their prospective clients.
Financial technology experts suggest that the barrier of entry into digital finance for agriculture in Uganda is hindered by the lack of private sector investment into local innovations.
