Innovation Hub: Digital Finance

The Digital Finance Innovation Hub session is open to participants interested in advancing digital finance for SMEs. Together, attendees will help define goals and key activities for the year ahead, ensuring the Hub’s structure and learning agenda reflect the most pressing opportunities and challenges in the fast-evolving world of digital finance. This session will also spark fresh thinking with the introduction of two timely and thought-provoking problem statements:

  • How are AI and alternative data reshaping credit as we know it?
  • What does it take to truly digitize the SME borrower?

Join the session to exchange ideas, set the agenda, and co-create actionable solutions at the frontier of digital finance.

Speakers

Namita Datta

Namita Datta

Principal Economist, International Finance Corporation

Flor Anicama

Flor Anicama

MIS Finance Director, Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP)

David Laithwaite

David Laithwaite

Head, Enterprise Lending, Africa Regions, Standard Bank

Dr. Sanjay Kalpage

Dr. Sanjay Kalpage

Senior Financial Specialist, FIG Africa, International Finance Corporation

Shelley Anderson

Shelley Anderson

Program Director, Alliance for Innovative Regulation

Kagiso Mothibi

Kagiso Mothibi

Chief Executive Officer, Fintech MTN South Africa

Moderator

Sarah Chataing

Sarah Chataing

Knowledge and Partnerships Lead, SMEFF