Asia & Pacific
During the past year, FIG Asia has reached more than 11,000 participants to discuss 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. IFC Asia has...
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Delivered 161 knowledge-sharing events (157 webinars, 1 virtual study tour and 6 sector/policy events) across multiple Practice Groups, including Risk Management, Digital Finance, SME Finance, Agri-finance, Supply Chain Finance, Gender Finance, Housing Finance, Climate Finance, Microfinance, and Financial Infrastructure to 11,000+ participants from financial institutions in Asia, Africa, and Europe
- Planned another 10 virtual events to be delivered by the end of March 2021
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Launched a learning series for IFC staff on trends in digital innovation and best practices for bank transformation. The first session, on Robotic Process Automation (RPA), was held on March 16, 2021
- Delivered the first training for the Alliance for Green Commercial Banks, an IFC–Hong Kong Monetary Authority initiative, on March 25, 2021. The Alliance will host monthly learning events for financial institutions.
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Hosted roundtable discussions for CEOs of financial institutions with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on digital finance and Distressed Assets Recovery Program, on March 25, 2021
- Drew 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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Organized a Virtual Study Tour to share the experience of City Bank’s Banking on Women product, City Alo, with Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank of Ceylon and Afghanistan’s Ghazanfar Bank.
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Held Client Strategic Dialogues: To help 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 75 such 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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