Industry Events

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.

The Ibero-American forum on guarantee and financing systems for micro and SMEs has been consolidated as the setting for discussion, exchange of experiences,  updating and lifelong learning of the Ibero-American Guarantee Systems, uninterrupted since 1998, under the articulation and coordination of the Ibero-American Network  of Guarantees Association - REGAR and the support of the organizing counterparts of each  country.

Last year, banks showed a significant increase in net profit! This year, leading bank managers and SME experts will meet at the VIII Annual Conference of the SME Banking Club Conference 2019 for Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova (BUM19) to discuss sales potential and cost effectiveness.

Fintech
How can banks cooperate with fintech startups? Cooperation patterns

Digital banking
Offline vs. online in SMEs. Bank for business - 100% online. Is it possible

Strategy
Creating a vertical SME in a transforming bank

SME Finance Forum member, European Association of Guarantee Institutions, is hosting the AECM Annual Event June 12-15. Session topics include The priorities for the new EU budget, Taking stock of SME policy of the outgoing EU Commission and The impact of digitization on guarantee business – opportunities and challenges.

SME Finance Forum members are entitled to receive a discount on registration. Please, contact us for more information.

The Annual Conference will be preceded by the ACCIS Annual General Assembly held on 12 June at the same venue. The ACCIS Conference, the largest gathering of professionals working on credit data issues in Europe, will again deliver the most up-to-date information in the field of credit referencing.

Join Women's World Banking to celebrate 40 years of building a more secure and prosperous future for women, their families and communities.

During this festive occasion, they will honor the leaders, organizations and partners who have contributed to our rich history and will share what the future looks like when women thrive, businesses grow, and economies flourish.

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 (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
 

The Global Private Equity Conference (GPEC) is the world’s leading event dedicated to exploring private investment opportunities across emerging and frontier markets, convening over 850 industry professionals from more than 70 countries annually. IFC hosts the event.

The 25th Africa Regional Group Meeting will be an opportunity to take stock of private and public actors’ commitments and major achievements of WSBI African members in digital financial inclusion. The meeting will focus on how WSBI members’ innovation and digital policies contribute to the improvement of their customer journey and, ultimately, to the national level of financial inclusion.