FIG MEA: Advising Banks & Businesses Through Pandemic
FIG MEA's Advisory Services team sprang into action to help clients and their customers as soon as their region started feeling the pandemic's effects. Here's a quick synopsis:
Organized 59 webinars, reaching over 5,200 beneficiaries, from 340 financial institutions across 35 countries, covering topics such as human resources, stress-testing, portfolio management, supply chain finance, business plansand other topics.
Provided 18 webinars on stress-testing and portfolio management reaching more than 1,100 participants from over 250 financial institutions
Produced37 Covid-19 response webinars directly for SMEs,in partnership with 11 banks, reaching more than 3,700 SME participants from seven different MEA countries
Delivered two Supply Chain Finance webinars for the FIs inMEA, reaching close to 100 participants from the regional banks.
FIG Asia: Supporting Clients During the COVID-19 Crisis
FIG Asia has delivered 63 webinars on crucial topics including the following:
Digital Financial Services
Gender Finance
Housing Finance
Knowledge Management
Microfinance
Risk Management
SME Finance
Supply Chain Finance
The team has brought IFC's attention to every corner of Asia by...
Delivering 63 webinars to nearly 4,000 financial institutions in Asia, Africa, and Europe
Planning another 15 webinars to be delivered by September 2020 (74 since February 2020)
Drawing participants from senior management (CEO, CFO, CROs), business unit managers and women entrepreneurs and MSMEs working with large commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and others
Generating 36 business-development leads, six engagements and four proposals
Specific topics were covered in the following recent events:
Business workouts,Financial Infrastructure, Vietnam, Co-led with the Vietnam Banks' Association
Embracing Digital Financial Services for expanding SME Financing in COVID-19 Crisis