This is a summary of the Sneak Preview of the World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery. On September 30th, WDR Director Leora...
In February 2021, we launched our revised pulse survey, to be run quarterly, with more targeted questions to understand how our members, and by proxy...
The United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) was held from Tuesday, 6 July, to Thursday, 15 July 2021, including a...
This is a summary of the Sneak Preview of the World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery. On September 30th, WDR Director Leora...
In February 2021, we launched our revised pulse survey, to be run quarterly, with more targeted questions to understand how our members, and by proxy...
The United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) was held from Tuesday, 6 July, to Thursday, 15 July 2021, including a...
Dear Members, Partners, and Friends, As 2021 draws to an end, let me take this opportunity to thank you for your continued engagement and supports. 2021 has undoubtedly been another challenging year for all of us, including the MSMEs which we are trying to serve. We are proud that so many of our members reported, in our surveys and check-in calls...
Credit scoring has the potential to improve access to capital and financial inclusion around the world. As financial institutions begin to have access to different types of data, the variety of credit scoring mechanisms have increased. One way that financial institutions have kept track of these alternative data and found ways to understand them...
This is a summary of the Sneak Preview of the World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery. On September 30th, WDR Director Leora Klapper and Lead Author Martin Holtmann made a special advance presentation, hosted by Matthew Gamser, CEO of the SME Finance Forum, sharing findings of the upcoming 2022 World Development Report (...
This blog is the summary of our Member Spotlight with vcita. In this member spotlight session, we were honored to have vcita, which helps small business owners build and manage their business through an easy-to-use business management platform. vcita's digital tools help business owners automate time-consuming administrative tasks like scheduling...
A virtual marketplace summary. On September 22, 2021, five leading fintechs presented their latest products and services at SME Finance Forum’s virtual marketplace – a match-making platform that facilitates partnership and collaboration between financial institutions, fintech companies, development financial institutions, as well as investors...
This blog is a summary of our webinar on digital financial services work for women . Women’s World Banking (WWB ) conducted research in 2019, on an emerging business model known as social commerce entrepreneurship with enterprises blending social media, e-commerce, payments and delivery platforms in India and Indonesia. One of the key findings of...
This blog is the summary of our Member Spotlight with Trefi. In this member spotlight session, we gave the floor to Trefi , which helps financial institutions turn MSME finance into a sustainable and highly profitable business line, by providing the infrastructure for business clearing, amongst others. They took us through their journey creating...
In February 2021, we launched our revised pulse survey, to be run quarterly, with more targeted questions to understand how our members, and by proxy how their SME clients, are faring. We had 71 respondents working in 143 countries, out of which 47 are lenders working in a little over 100 countries. Our second round of surveys this year, during...
Este blog es un resumen del evento En Foco con AB Bank Zambia . La digitalización se ha convertido en la principal tendencia de los servicios financieros para las PYMES desde que comenzó la pandemia de COVID-19. La tecnología apoya a las instituciones financieras a brindar servicios de forma más accesible a más personas en la base de la pirámide,...
This is a summary of the third session of the SME Finance Virtual Marketplace – Fintechs . With the purpose of adding value to its membership offering, the SME Finance Forum developed the “ SME Finance Virtual Marketplace ” to provide members with a match-making platform to foster partnership and collaboration among financial institutions,...
