Asia & Pacific
FIG Asia: Supporting Clients During the COVID-19 Crisis (as of January 31, 2021)
FIG Asia has reached more than 10,000 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 143 webinars, and four sector-level events with regulators and policymakers since February 2020, to more than 10,000 participants from financial institutions in Asia, Africa, and Europe
- Planning another 8 virtual events to be delivered by the end of March 2021
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Organizing an interactive event for staff w/Brett King, best-selling author, speaker & co-founder of Moven.
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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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Participating in the IFC-led Climate Business Webinar supported by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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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 (session in the Gender Learning Series of the World Bank)
- 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 56 Strategic Dialogues with clients across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fiji, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Philippines, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Papua New Guinea.
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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 156 webinars, reaching more than 12,245 beneficiaries, from 1,650 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 129 Covid-19-response webinars for SMEs, in partnership with 31 financial institutions, reaching more than 10,568 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 1,478 client MSMEs across MEA. 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, on Guinea, was published in October.
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