Asia & Pacific
Since March, 2020, FIG Asia has reached more than 10,500 participants on crucial topics, including the following: 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...
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Delivering 148 webinars, and four sector-level events with regulators and policymakers to more than 10,500 participants from financial institutions in Asia, Africa, and Europe
- Planning another 13 virtual events to be delivered by the end of March 2021
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Organizing knowledge sharing events with sector experts, including Brett King, best-selling author, speaker & co-founder of Moven.
- Producing event w/Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and Professor W. D Lakshman, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
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Sharing knowledge from IFC clients that are green-finance leaders in webinar for India on IFC’s Green Commercial Bank Framework for Financial Institutions
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Hosting knowledge sessions on supply-chain finance with the State Bank of Pakistan on Turkey's experience with e-invoicing & success story of NAFIN–National Financiera, SNC–Mexico
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Delivering sessions on gender finance in the All Stars Academy Training Program by the Financial Alliance for Women
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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
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Generating 43 business-development leads, six engagements and four proposals
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Covering topics such as the following in recent events & webinars:
- Accelerating digital financial inclusion during COVID-19
- Making inclusive supply chains a reality (part of the World Bank's Gender Learning Series)
- Increasing the supply of green buildings & affordable housing
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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. These help us better understand clients’ needs & priorities. We have held 64 Strategic Dialogues with clients across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fiji, India, Mongolia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, and other countries in Asia.
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Middle East & Africa
FIG MEA’s Advisory Services has helped clients and their customers since the beginning of the pandemic in the region. Here’s a quick synopsis:
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Organizing 158 webinars, reaching more than 12,299 beneficiaries, from 1,721 financial institutions across 36 countries, covering topics such as human resources management, stress-testing, portfolio management, supply chain finance, business planning, and more.
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Producing 130 Covid-19-response webinars for SMEs, in partnership with 31 financial institutions, reaching more than 10,578 SME participants from 17 different MEA countries.
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Delivering two webinars on supply chain finance to 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. Co-conducting the surveys with help from financial institutions across the region to find out the kind of support MSME clients need. We have shared the Surveys in nine countries and with 24 financial institutions, which have 1,551 client MSMEs across MEA. Results are showing a need for capacity-building and long-term financing for MSMEs.
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Survey results are published through a series of country notes. Four have been published thus far; next in the pipeline are Uganda and Kenya.
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