Asia & Pacific
FIG Asia: Supporting Clients During the COVID-19 Crisis (as of November 26, 2020)
FIG Asia has delivered 117 virtual events that have reached more than 7,500 participants on crucial topics, including: Digital Financial Services, Gender Finance, Housing Finance, Knowledge Management, Microfinance, Risk Management, SME Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Financial Infrastructure and Climate Finance
The team has brought IFC's attention to every corner of Asia by...
- Delivering 117 webinars, since February 2020, to more than 7,500 participants from financial institutions in Asia, Africa, and Europe
- Planning another 15 webinars to be delivered by the end of December
- Drawing participants from senior management (CEO, CFO, CROs), business unit managers, women entrepreneurs and MSMEs working with large commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and the like
- Generating 39 business-development leads, six engagements and four proposals; specific topics included the following:
- Combating COVID with Effective and Resilient Public Policies
- SME Banking Landscape reality check: Pandemic Impact, Business recovery & Aligning
- Future of Finance: Digital transformation and automation
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Developing green commercial banks and encourage more green finance in order to address climate change
- Supporting inclusive rural digital finance services
Client Strategic Dialogues: As part our systematic approach to helping FIG clients cope with the COVID-19 crisis, FIG Asia has launched a “Strategic Dialogues” Series. The objective of the dialogues is to better understand our clients’ needs and priorities and to share our experiences in assisting them through the pandemic.
We have held 46 Strategic Dialogues with clients across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fiji, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Philippines, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Samoa and Papua New Guinea.
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Middle East & Africa
FIG MEA’s Advisory Services has rolled up their sleeves, working alongside clients and their customers, since the beginning of the pandemic in the region.
Here’s a quick synopsis:
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Organizing 117 webinars, reaching over 9,700 beneficiaries, from 370 financial institutions across 36 countries, covering topics such as human resources, stress-testing, portfolio management, supply chain finance, business plans, and more.
- Providing 22 webinars on stress-testing, portfolio management and HR, reaching close to 1,500 participants from more than 340 financial institutions.
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Producing 95 Covid-19-response webinars directly for SMEs, in partnership with 23 financial institutions, reaching more than 8,100 SME participants from 13 different MEA countries.
- Delivering two Supply Chain Finance webinars for financial institutions in the MEA region, reaching more than 110 participants from the regional banks.
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Developing COVID-19 Business Impact Surveys, implemented with FIs across the region to help them understand how their MSME clients are affected by COVID-19 and to follow up with recommendations on how to best support them.
The Business Impact Surveys were shared with 22 financial institutions in eight countries with 1438 MSMEs to date across the MEA region. Results are showing a need for capacity building and long-term financing for MSMEs.
Survey results are published through a series of country notes. The first one was published in October on Guinea.
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