This year’s conference featured a series of high-level leadership dialogues focusing on enhancing SME resilience amid global macroeconomic pressures, disruptions in trade, and persistent financing gaps through technology innovation, supportive policy frameworks, and public-private collaboration as well as the role of Digital Public Infrastructure in driving financial innovation.
As the Global SME Finance Forum draws to a close after two days of dynamic discussion, this session addresses some of the pivotal questions:
- What concrete actions need to be taken to translate the forum’s rich insights into meaningful progress for SMEs?
- What are the clear trends you have identified regarding the success of MSMEs over the past few years? What has changed in the MSME environment?
- What are the most impactful interventions you have seen from governments and financial institutions that we should plan to scale and develop for the future?
- What are the best examples of ecosystems built around MSMEs that we must look to as our “North Star” ideas?
- What are we missing from our current package of support that we still need to ideate and consider for next year’s conference?
- How do you see the role of the SME Finance Forum going forward?
