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NEWSLETTER - MARCH 2016
This blog discusses the potential of big data analytics and machine learning for banks. Leveraging data is a gateway for banks to be present in their customers' day-to-day financial management and is quickly becoming the future of banking.
Banks around the world are fast embracing value chain finance as an engine of growth for their small and medium enterprise business segments. Learn how your bank can identify and leverage this growth opportunity within your own markets.
The Global SME Finance Forum 2016 will be held on 19-20 September in Beijing, China and we have exciting sponsorship opportunities. We aim to provide our sponsors the utmost opportunities to highlight their brands, actively engage in professional networking and make valuable business connections.
Experience suggests that value chain finance is arguably one of the most sustainable and effective ways of reaching smallholder farmers. This Guide is based on existing good-practice knowledge, and the experience and insights of well-recognized bankers partnering with AgriFin.
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The Forum will highlight the Asia region's unique challenges, opportunities and emerging solutions for scaling digital finance.


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The tiny South Pacific island nation of Tonga has become a trial ground for one of the most expansive credit reforms in the world, as banks allow vanilla farmers to use a new kind of collateral: their crops. 


This report assesses the rise of new technologies in the financial services sector, the potential impact of fintech on market players and their attitudes to the latest technological developments. 
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We are pleased to welcome our new members - Commercial Bank of Africa , Ecobank , Global Communities ,  Kafalah SME Finance Guarantee Program  and Oxigen . Not a SME Finance Forum Member?  Join today!
 
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Is "hybrid lending" a better path forward for banks than fintech partnerships?
 
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