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Global SME Finance Forum 2015

Webinar 8/27: Linking Financial & Non-Financial Services for Women Entrepreneurs
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This premier SME finance event will bring together leaders from financial institutions, development financial institutions, and fintech companies. The two-day program is designed to provide insights on innovation and transformative technologies that can accelerate small business finance. This year's event will also mark the launch of the SME Finance Forum's global membership network.
 
This webinar will cover how financial institutions can offer appropriate non-financial services like business training, networking opportunities and business consulting to improve the skills of current SME clients and differentiate their bank from competitors in the market. 
Strengthening the rights of creditors - including sometimes at the expense of debtor rights - can improve access to credit at reasonable rates for those very debtors. The predictability generated by more efficient and transparent insolvency and moveable collateral regimes in particular, seem to have the effect of reducing the cost of borrowing for firms and increasing their access to finance.
Around the globe, some 2.5 billion people are cut off from digital financial systems. Researchers and policymakers view the migration of poor households to electronic payment platforms as an essential ingredient in expanding financial inclusion. 
This analysis estimates the economic impact at final beneficiary level of the Multi-Annual Program for enterprises and entrepreneurship EU SME Guarantee Facility in CESEE countries in the period 2005-2012. The findings suggest that the EU SME Guarantee Facility has been successful in bringing significant positive effects on beneficiary firms in these countries, in particular with regard to employment and turnover.

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