Do open APIs make sense for your company? Which ones? This blog outlines a structured approach, taken by a CGAP partner, which allowed the team to develop a deeper understanding of the API product’s value and requirements and to ultimately get the buy-in it needs to develop and release a successful product.
Jay Singer is Senior Vice President, Global Small Business Segment at Mastercard. In this role, he leads the global development and commercialization of the Mastercard innovative commercial products and solutions that serve small businesses.
During the Global SME Finance Forum 2018, Andrew Watkins-Ball, CEO and Founder of JUMO details how JUMO leverages customer data to ensure optimal service.
Join 1500+ senior financial and banking executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers, regulators and entrepreneurs from around the world. See fintech innovators from around the world through unique, short-form demos. Hear expert speakers on banking, payments, digital finance, customer experience, regetch and open banking. Connect with key influencers driving the future of financial and banking technology.
The SME Finance Forum LinkedIn provides an opportunity for financial experts to view the latest news, reports, data and discussions regarding the SME finance field. The group is comprised of more than 11,000 bank executives, investors, advisory service providers and financial technology experts, who share knowledge, spur innovation, and promote the growth of SMEs.
The Mastercard Foundation in partnership with BFA released Digital Commerce and Youth Employment in Africa, new research that shows 80 million young people will benefit from the rise of digital commerce in Africa by 2030. These findings indicate that the digital commerce sector has the potential of disrupting the future of work on the continent.
An unmissable event for the smartest visionaries and innovators, Money20/20 is where the payments, FinTech and financial services industries come together to connect and build the future of money.
From industry institutions to up-and-coming innovators, everyone is here, every time. Businesses come together to explore unique regional insight and trailblazing enterprise, seizing the opportunity to meet the person or land the deal that will change the trajectory of their business.
SME Finance Forum CEO, Matthew Gamser, moderated a panel at Finovate Europe 2019 called "The 20/20 Hindsight Sessions: Routes to digitisation and transformation, from technical and cultural standpoints."
The discussion was about translating strategy into results, putting new systems into place, shifting company culture, and the various roadblocks encountered. They also spoke on the shift of power from financial services to the consumer: a paradigmatic shift that enables fintech.
Europe’s digital gap with the world’s leaders is now being compounded by an emerging gap with the world’s leaders in its development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Without faster and more comprehensive engagement in AI, that gap could widen. Europe may not need to compete head to head but rather in areas where it has an edge (such as in business-to-business [B2B] and advanced robotics) and continue to scale up one of the world’s largest bases of technology developers into a more connected Europe-wide web of AI-based innovation hubs.
In a bid to accelerate women’s financial inclusion in MENA, the region with the lowest female economic participation in the world, the DFID-funded Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) led a study to understand the scope for Digital Financial Services (DFS) in Egypt, map key constraints to women’s financial inclusion and identify opportunities to transform the livelihoods of low-income Egyptian women through improved access to finance.
