14th ANNUAL GLOBAL MICROFINANCE FORUM
15-16 March 2018
Munich, Germany
Video
DAY 1
1. INVESTMENT LANDSCAPE 2018
- What do investors expect from MFIs today?
- A practical experience in managing local currency risks from a fund management perspective. ACTIAM
- Financing Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises
- Increased access to financing through cooperation with Credit Guarantee Funds
Q&A SESSION:
- Africa
- Central Asia and Caucasus
- CEE
- South-Eastern Asia
- LATAM
2. EFFECTIVE PROMOTION OF MICROFINANCE SERVICES IN THE LOW INCOME MARKET
- Leveraging technology to improve efficiency and enhance the client experience
- “Data driven” information technology tools for efficient ranking and evaluation
- How cloud-based microfinance system helps microfinance institutions run their business more efficiently
- Enabling vulnerable segments of the population to access insurance services
- Microleasing: opportunities and constraints
- Impact finance and sharing economy
- Can an investment case be made for micropensions?
INTERACTIVE SPOTLIGHT SESSION ON MFIs and INVESTORS
MFIs: understanding investment criteria, geographical focus, development objectives, social responsibility, timelines, procedural frameworks and other questions.
Investors: regulatory environments, social responsibility, performance of MFIs at different levels, corporate governance.
3. EXPANDING FINANCIAL INCLUSION IN THE DIGITAL ERA
- Technology-driven Financial Inclusion
- Obstacles tocFinancial Inclusion
- Digital microfinance: opening new horizons
- Digitizing a Microfinance Institution. A Mexican MFI dealing with technological and staff obstacles during the digitizing plan
- P2P Lending on Blockchain
- Development finance online education: Sustainable education
PANEL DISCUSSION
- How to leverage human capital to take advantage of new technologies and access financing
- What is required from MFI leaders to meet the current challenges
4. ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF INVESTMENTS
- The experience of Green Microfinance in Pakistan: An Emerging Market
- How to use crowdfunding in creating an effective piece of development finance
- Prospects of investing into “Women in Business”
PANEL DISCUSSION
- Importance of making microfinance services client oriented
- Effective collection vs. client protection against over-indebtedness
- Is microfinance always seen as an impact investment?
- Tools to make impact investing sustainable and measure its performance
- Combining positive social impact with high returns: how is it possible?
- Implications for impact investors
Speakers

Bernie Morgan
Trustee
RBS Social and Community Capital, UK

Geert Peetermans
Chief Investment Officer
Incofin, Belgium

Els Boerhof
Partner
Goodwell Investments B.V., Netherlands

Per-Erik Eriksson
Head of Inclusive Finance
European Investment Fund, Luxembourg

Sinisa Vukic
Senior Portfolio Manager
Actiam Impact Investing, Netherlands

Roy Budjhawan
Head ING Microfinance
ING Bank, Netherlands

Floor van Oppen
Fund Manager of the Infrastructure Development Fund
FMO, the Netherlands

Veronique Su
Director Central, East and Southern Africa
Swisscontact, Kenya

Jurgen Hammer
SPTF – Social Performance Task Force, France
Social Performance Task Force (SPTF), France
Director Risk and Social Performance
Foundation Grameen Credit Agricole, France

Alfonso Vega A., CFA
Associate Director, Financial Institutions, SME and Blended Finance
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), UK

Stefan Martiniak
CEO
First MicroFinance Company, Kyrgyzstan

Cristina Alvarez
Microfinance Investment Manager
Babyloan, France

Cameron Goldie-Scot
CEO
Musoni System, UK

Carmen Colla
Principal Sector Economist, Sector Policy Unit Financial Sector Development
KfW Development Bank, Germany

Dirk de Vlaam
Senior Investor relations and business development officer
Triple Jump, the Netherlands

Mahmut Sahin
Deputy Division Manager
Kredi Garanti Fonu, Turkey

Eamon Scullin
Founder & CEO
Fern Software, UK

Carole Maman
Chief Investment Officer
BIO, Belgium

Sophorth Khuon
CEO
Morakot PTE, Singapore

Julian Oehrlein
Co-founder & COO
Oradian Ltd., Croatia

Nilly Chingaté Castaño
Programme Manager
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany

Vincenzo Trani
Founder & Chairman
Mikro Kapital S.à r.l., Luxembourg

Galina Bakhmetyeva
CEO
Brainysoft, Russia

Nayab Jan
Head of Business Development & External Relations
Community Support Concern, Pakistan

Arturo Liguori
Member of the Board
Galileo Network S.p.A., Italy
Sponsors
Where and When?
15 – 16 March 2018
Maritim Hotel München
Goethestraße 7
Munich, Germany
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