Practitioners and investors come together across three streams of coherent debate with one shared goal, inclusive finance. The theme for the summit is “Opportunities & innovation in microfinance for practitioners & socially responsible investors”.
Benefits of Attending
For investors in microfinance
• Understand how IFI’s and institutional investors are partnering to share risk on future investments;
• Uncover the latest initiatives to deploy investment capital to complement philanthropy in solving financial inclusion at scale;
• Spot future investment ready institutions by hearing from latest seed-funded MFIs by international financial institutions;
• Assess new partnerships and new models in microfinance and the underlying technology to build capacity and fuel growth
For microfinance practitioners
• Improve consumer protection processes by learning from institutions overcoming crises in over indebtedness;
• Build knowledge of developing financial products designed to meet the evolving needs of the poor in health, housing and education;
• Explore the mobile money opportunity for the unbanked and how it translates across differing geographies, cultures and regulatory environments;
• Benchmark with MFI practitioners who are backing small and medium sized enterprises and learn from those who are growing apace with the SME’s they are supporting.
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