Join the SIFTA Webinar Series with Artur Munteanu

Are you working in microfinance or supporting MSMEs in Europe? Don’t miss this webinar series designed to help your institution grow, adapt and innovate.

🧠 Led by expert Artur Munteanu, a finance executive with 24+ years of experience across Europe and Central Asia, these sessions will provide actionable insights and practical tools for your team.

You don’t need to attend every session − feel free to join those most relevant to your organization and portfolio.

Webinar Schedule

🔹 May 12 | 11:00–13:00 CET

New product development: Micro equity products for MFIs

The majority of MFIs have the mission to create jobs; however, after close monitoring, they observe that microloan is a good safety tool but not a booster of jobs. Microfinance should not be expected to have a significant impact on job creation and unemployment reduction.  Some studies show that one microenterprise creates, on average, 1.1 jobs, that is, one in ten hires an employee beyond the self-employed founder. 

During the webinar, you will find answers to several questions:  

  • How can private equity and venture capital be adjusted to the needs of micro and small entrepreneurs? 
  • What MCPs/MFIs can learn from private equity and venture capital?   
  • How can revenue participation loans be adjusted to the MSEs’ needs? 
  • How can micro-equity investment in MSEs help job creation have a social and environmental impact?  
  • What business model is best for your strategy?  
  • How to structure an impact micro-equity fund?  
  • How do you apply micro-equity in microfinance institutions?

 

During the session, you will find out the differences between private debt and private equity as well as different equity-type instruments that can finance MSEs, which will create more jobs and develop sustainable communities. We will define micro-equity, impact micro-equity, and present convertible loan and revenue participation loan characteristics.  

Different organizational models to provide equity (like classical equity funds, crowdfunding platforms, angel investors, and accelerators).  

During the session, participants will find practical insights on the ideal management team, fundraising strategy, and efficient fundraising process for micro-equity. 

Application to microfinance institutions will be discussed. 

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🔹 May 13 | 11:00–13:00 CET
Financial Planning and Modelling

Do you have a strategic financial model and an operational financial model that can be realistically implemented and easily adjusted? Do you have a financial plan that can be used for a test stress test to quantify the growth or slowdown impact on profitability and capital adequacy? 

During the webinar, you will find out about: 

  • An ideal structure of a strategic financial model and operational financial model, depending on your financial institution’s development stage  
  • Department or function input tables  
  • Financial statement and indicator tables   
  • Stress testing inputs and outputs  
  • Templates to present the result of the model to the Board and or Stakeholders  
  • You need to develop or adjust the financial model because you may want to build on the opportunities in good times and lose less in different crises, and get out faster from crises. Find out how to build a flexible financial model for financial institutions financing SMEs during the financial planning and financial modelling webinar by registering at Zoom. 
  • Financial planning and modeling are not only for financial analysts, but also for top management, who will also use the financial model as a management instrument.  
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🔹 May 14 | 11:00–13:00 CET
Credit Scoring for Small MFIs

During this session, you will find answers to several questions:  

  • Shall we develop scoring internally or buy a scoring instrument? 
  • Shall we buy a score from independent data aggregators, or shall we buy credit history info from credit bureaus? 
  • How many groups of variables do we need when building a credit score?  
  • Should you rely only on financial data, or is non/financial data important too?  
  • How do we weigh different groups of variables in the total score?  
  • Credit scoring for different economic sectors.   
  • During the session, we will also be discussing credit decisions, which should be based on credit scoring only or should be at the discretion of credit committee members within the line of authorization.  
  • Creditor scoring is addressed for credit risk managers (junior and senior), but also to top managers who intend to change the credit analysis policies, intending to prepare a new credit worthiness analysis tool or credit scoring tool. 
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🌍 Attendance is free of charge for all webinars. You don’t need to attend every session − feel free to join those most relevant to your organization and portfolio.

The sessions target microfinance institutions (MFIs), including greenfield MFIs, banks, funds, NGOs, or other institutions and individuals working in the microenterprise development sector in Europe.

Our Experts

Artur Munteanu is an entrepreneur, finance executive, and enterprise development consultant with more than 24 years of experience in the financial and MSME development sectors. Artur has developed his expertise through his role as the CEO and Board Member of Microinvest, a leading non-bank financial institution in Moldova. Today, Microinvest manages more than 250 million Euros in assets and has more than 200 staff members. He was and is a Board Member and Advisor in several important companies from the agro-food, finance, and ICT sectors. Artur holds an MBA from the University of Hull, the UK. Artur organized trainings for more than 4000 participants in several subjects, including strategy and business planning, active sales, risk management, human resource management, corporate governance, and internal audit.

Mr. Munteanu has experience in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia. He structured and fundraised more than 100 million Euro in different transactions. He worked and is working with clients in Moldova, Romania, Spain, Greece, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia.

Mr. Munteanu trained and consulted in sales staff of several institutions: Mikrokapital Romania and Mikrokapital Moldova. Rocredit Romania, Seed Capital Bizkaia from Spain, MicroSmart from Greece, CAR Vest Romania, Realist from Romania and Moldova, Microinvest Moldova, and Salym Finance, Kirgizstan.

 

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