1st Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meeting (FCBD)

The SME Finance workshop will focus on both successful business models and the crosscutting enabling environment factors that encourage or discourage innovation. Opportunities and innovations surrounding financing new enterprise formation, particularly for young and women entrepreneurs, will be highlighted and successful and promising approaches will be discussed. It will bring bankers, investors and fintech companies, mostly from the private sector, together with policymakers to discuss the hands-on practices and enabling environment reforms that overcome obstacles to success in this area. The workshop will be followed by the meeting of the GPFI.