In 2019, the SME Finance Forum launched its second annual competition of the Global SME Finance Awards competition. The Global SME Finance Awards were created by IFC and the SME Finance Forum to celebrate the exceptional achievements of financial institutions and fintech companies in client delivery for SMEs. The awards are endorsed by the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI).
Washington, D.C., March 5th, 2020 –Lidya became the newest member of the SME Finance Forum, a global membership network that brings together financial institutions, technology companies, and development finance institutions to share knowledge, spur innovation, and promote the growth of SMEs.
Washington, D.C., March 3rd, 2020 – Banking Circle has become the newest member of the SME Finance Forum, a global membership network that brings together financial institutions, technology companies, and development finance institutions to share knowledge, spur innovation, and promote the growth of SMEs.
This report, prepared by the World Bank, seeks to enhance practitioners’ understanding of the potential role that capital markets can have in SME financing in EMDEs. The report reviews global experiences with the use of capital markets solutions and, more generally, of market-based solutions to expand SME financing with a view to identifying key preconditions and challenges for EMDEs implementing the solutions.
My participation at the WBAF 2020 world congress
I always try to attend our member World Congress WBAF 2020, because it presents a unique mix of angel investors (all successful entrepreneurs in their own right), senior government policymakers, and others focused on supporting dynamic SMEs.
Join us in Bangkok on October 26-28 for our flagship annual event. The theme of this year's Global SME Finance Forum is "SME Finance Outlook 2030". To celebrate the new decade, we will look much further forward to imagine where we might be in SME financing a decade from now. Over 700 senior executives from 300+ institutions (banks, development finance institutions, fintech, and real sector companies) and 80+ countries are expected.
My participation in the We-Fi MENA Regional Summit – Dubai 16-17 February 2020
Washington, D.C., February 20th, 2020 – WeBank became the newest member of the SME Finance Forum, a global membership network that brings together financial institutions, technology companies, and development finance institutions to share knowledge, spur innovation, and promote the growth of SMEs.
Blog on The 2020 Middle East and Africa Summit (MEA), by Matthew Gamser, CEO SME Finance Forum
To celebrate the new decade, this year’s Global SME Finance Forum will look much farther forward, to imagine where we might be in SME financing a decade from now. We will test the limits of our prescience by predicting how products, delivery channels, institutions and enabling environments might look 10 years from now.
