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Date: 29 May 2019 Location: Istanbul, Turkey Pre-conference workshop during MFC Annual Conference 2019 Modern marketers have a wealth of potential digital marketing solutions at their fingertips for social media marketing, email marketing, digital advertising, content creation, search engine optimization (SEO) and affiliate marketing. This workshop will explore leading example of engaging web pages and financial service apps, and give ...

We will be happy to welcome you at the Sultan Gala Dinner in the evening at the first day of MFC Annual Conference 2019 (30 May) with mesmerising atmosphere and good food for relaxed networking and lively conversation on emerging topics. The Gala Dinner will be held in the Feriye Palace, which is considered to be one of the most interesting ...

Date: May 12-13, 2019 Location: Ohrid, North Macedonia Topic: Readiness for Digitalisation in Microfinance The Regional forum READINESS FOR DIGITALIZATION IN MICROFINANCE – Challenges and trends in the region – is organised by the Alliance of Microfinance organizations  jointly with Savings house Moznosti, Microcredit foundation Horizonti, Savings house FULM and the Macedonian Enterprise Development Foundation, with the support of the USAID’ ...

We are delighted to announce Tim Ogden (FAI) will be a keynote speaker at the MFC Annual Conference 2019! Tim is the managing director of the Financial Access Initiative (FAI) a research center based at New York University, known also from FaiV, his weekly thought-provoking insights on microfinance and financial inclusion. Tim has co-authored and edited many books on business innovation and ...

The European Commission published its assessments of the Economic Reform Programmes (ERP) of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. The ERP assessments provide an analysis of each country’s structural reform priorities, including economic, business and sectoral key challenges. The exercise mirrors the European Semester within the EU and has become one of the key components of the enlargement process ...

When the first Fintechs appeared, experts predicted they would usurp mainstream finance—later scaling back their predictions to mere ‘disruption’. The increasingly dominant view, however, is that while Fintechs will catalyse advances in the finance industry as a whole, they are likely to do so as collaborators with astute incumbents, rather than direct competitors. The landscape of future collaboration between Fintechs ...

  Date: October 7, 2019 Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands Topic: the convergence of the real and financial sectors in SME finance Join leaders from banks, fintech companies, development finance institutions, and regulators at the Global SME Finance Forum 2019 on October 7 in the Netherlands. The conference will examine the different ways in which the real sector has entered the SME ...

Date: 29 May 2019 Location: Istanbul, Turkey Topic: Women’s financial inclusion Pre-conference event of the MFC Annual Conference Globally, 2 billion people remain unbanked and women lag behind men in terms of access to formal accounts, credit and savings products. 80% of women-owned small businesses have unmet credit needs, resulting in a credit gap of up to $320 billion. Closing the gender gap in ...

Social enterprise finance providers can now apply for technical assistance services under the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme! To build the emerging European social enterprise finance sector and to facilitate access to EaSI financial instruments, the European Commission is extending the scope for the provision of EaSI technical assistance – which previously focused only on microcredit providers – to cover also ...

      More than 70 practitioners took part in the conference “Migrant Entrepreneurship Support: Access to Finance” held on April 3-4, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. The conference was organized jointly by two European Consortia: M-Up and MAGNET. As a member of the MAGNET Consortium, MFC was responsible for shaping the agenda of the event, facilitating workshops and speaking on fintechs ...