BIIA 2019 Biennial Conference
Key themes for the BIIA 2019 Biennial conference are emerging and their conference committee is working on the following sessions:
Innovations in Delivery Channels
Money20/20 USA 2019
Each year, the Money 20/20 stage features a star-studded cast that provides actionable insights and takeaways that can help you take your business to the next level and beyond. 2018's list of cutting-edge topics was expansive, guaranteeing that you’ll walk away with new perspectives and thought-starters on the ways our market is revolutionizing the future of money and what it means for your business.
FINNOSUMMIT Mexico 2019
FINNOSUMMIT has positioned itself as the largest collaboration platform in the sector in Latin America in which recognized entrepreneurs, financial services innovators, executives of financial institutions and the most influential investors internationally, meet to take risks and share information. In this way, the event offers the ideal environment for networking that the industry needs, through which the audience achieves innovation rates that will make them winners of finance and digital and inclusive insurance for the next 20 years.
Video: IFC Innovation in Africa
From supporting sustainable agriculture in Burkina Faso to tech start-ups in Kenya, here’s a snippet of IFC's work across Africa.
FCI 51st Annual Meeting
This annual meeting will gauge the direction of the industry and discuss and debate the most important developments, such as:
• the rise of fintechs/blockchain technology and their possible benefits and potential threats to the Receivables Finance industry;
• the impact of Basel regulatory capital requirements and the use of credit insurance as a risk mitigation tool and their combined effect on capital adequacy;
• the benefits of establishing a Supply Chain Finance (SCF) platform inside a bank/receivables finance operation;
Caucasus SME Banking Club Conference 2019
Caucasus SME Banking Club Conference 2019 (shortly – Caucasus’19) is the fifth annual regional banking conference in Caucasus region organized by SME Banking Club. It gathers international experts and local bankers as to discuss trends and innovations in micro-, small and medium business segment.
Key topics include:
Bank Transformations
Innovations in SME segment
Digital banking
Innovations in SME financing
Non-financial services for SMEs
World FinTech Report 2018
Capgemini and LinkedIn, in collaboration with Efma, developed the World FinTech Report 2018 based on a global survey encompassing responses from traditional financial services firms and FinTech firms including
Early Lessons on Regulatory Innovations to Enable Inclusive FinTech
Technology-enabled innovation in financial services (FinTech) can extend the benefits of financial inclusion to millions of unbanked and underbanked people around the world. However, the rise of FinTech presents many regulatory challenges - for emerging and developing economies in particular. Consequently a number of regulators in advanced, emerging, and developing economies have responded to such challenges by innovating on their own. These innovative regulatory initiatives include innovation offices, regulatory sandboxes, and RegTech for regulators.
Technological Innovation and the Dutch Financial Sector
This report discusses the impact of technological innovation on the financial sector and its implications for supervision. Given the inherent uncertainty related to this impact, this study applies a scenario analytic approach to develop three alternative scenarios for the future. In the first, established financial institutions embrace and successfully exploit innovation, thereby changing the structure of the financial sector relatively little. In the second, the market becomes fragmented as new, specialist players compete effectively with established financial institutions.
Member News: BRAC Bank Wins Award
SME Finance Forum member BRAC Bank won the “Most Innovative SME Bank” award from International Finance Publications Ltd. BRAC Bank’s head of SME banking, Syed Abdul Momen, formally received the award from Sunil Bhat, director, International Finance, at the International Finance Awards 2018, held at Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand on January 25.