FIG MEA: Advising Banks & Businesses Through Pandemic
FIG MEA's Advisory Services team has helped clients and their customers since the beginning of the pandemic in the region.
Here's a quick synopsis:
- Organized 94 webinars, reaching over 7,200 beneficiaries, from 340 financial institutions across 35 countries, covering topics such as human resources, stress-testing, portfolio management, supply chain finance, business plans, and other topics.
- Provided 18 webinars on stress-testing and portfolio management reaching more than 1,100 participants from over 250 financial institutions
- Produced 37 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: Supporting Clients During the COVID-19 Crisis
The team has delivered 69 webinars on crucial topics including the following:
- Digital Financial Services
- Gender Finance
- Knowledge Management
- Microfinance
- Risk Management
- SME Finance
- Supply Chain Finance
- Financial Infrastructure
The team has brought IFC's attention to every corner of Asia by...
- Delivering 69 webinars to more than 3,000 participants in Asia, Africa, and Europe
- Planning another 19 webinars to be delivered by September 2020 (88 in total 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 39 business-development leads, six engagements and four proposals
Specific topics included the following:
- Probable Effects of COVID 19 on Selected Areas of Banking in Bangladesh (SME Finance, Agriculture Finance, Supply Chain Finance and Information Technology, and Artificial Intelligence)
- SME Finance, with Bank Alfalah, Pakistan
- Economic development through equitable access to energy: SDG 7, The/Nudge Forum (global edition), in partnership with Rockefeller Foundation and Skoll Foundation, India
- Electricity Distribution: Creating the change, in India
- Mainstreaming Gender and Inclusion (G&I) in Clean Energy Investment, with a focus on Indonesia
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