17th Annual Global Microfinance Forum 2021 | Uniglobal Events | 22 April 2021 | Virtual Event

The current economic environment has significantly affected the microfinance sector: MFIs’ operations, portfolio, and liquidity, as well as ways of cooperation and information exchange with the other microfinance stakeholders. Many financial markets see the changing value of the local currencies, prices for goods and services, and costs of hedging, and decreasing opportunities of attracting the new investments. Microfinance sector players struggle with debt repayments, meanwhile moratoriums and restructurings become a widespread measure introduced to support the sector development. In addition, a slowdown in the real economy makes the clients of MFIs even more vulnerable, hence it requires the respective transformation of existing systems, policies and approaches.

The 17th Annual Global Microfinance Forum by Uniglobal will cover a range of topics that make this forum appealing to MFIs, investors and other industry players from all over the world. It will bring on board a solid network of professionals and senior level experts who will share their experiences and views on the current sector challenges and opportunities, as well as expectations and predictions about future trends in microfinance. During multiple sessions the participants will discuss how MFIs adapt to and run in the new reality, current complications for microclients, specificity of moratoriums on debt repayments, rising importance of digital transformation and many other important topics.

2021 Speakers

Huib-Jan de Ruijter
Director of Financial Institutions, FMO, The Netherlands

Jarri Jung
Head of Financial Institutions, Triple Jump, The Netherlands

Cristina Dumitrescu
Senior Investment Manager – Inclusive Finance, European Investment Fund, Luxembourg

Florian Ott
Social Banking Development Manager, Erste Group Bank AG, Austria, Authorized Officer, Erste Social Finance Holding, Austria

Stephanie García Van Gool
Director of Impact Assessment, BBVA Microfinance Foundation, Spain

Jurgen Hammer
Managing Director, SPTF Europe, Luxembourg

Toms Jurjevs
Founder & CEO, Sun Finance, Latvia

Ashwin Mahabaleswara
Director, Asia Private Equity & Private Debt, Developing World Markets, USA

Theo Brouwers
Director Impact Investing, ACTIAM, The Netherlands

Markus Aschendorf
Head of Division / Equity Investments and Funds / Europe / Asia / MENA, KfW Bankengruppe, Germany

Francis Malige
Managing Director, Financial Institutions, EBRD, UK

Alain Levy
Head of Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship for Asia & Americas, BNP Paribas, France

Bruno Cassola
Manager, Public Affairs & Sustainability Department, ICCREA BANCA, Italy

Teresa Burelli
International Partnerships Lead, BBVA Microfinance Foundation, Spain

Jessica Schicks
Senior Investment Officer, Financial Institutions, Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries – BIO, Belgium

Els Boerhof
Managing Partner, Co-Owner, Goodwell Investments B.V., The Netherlands

Jorge Rubio
Managing Director, Citi Inclusive Finance, UK

Momina Aijazuddin
Global Head Microfinance, International Finance Corporation, USA

Philippe Guichandut
Head of Inclusive Finance Development, Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation, France

Bernard Acquaye
Regional Manager Africa, Quipu and QWare, Ghana, Accra

Cameron Goldie-Scot
CEO, Musoni System, The Netherlands

2021 Sponsors and Partners

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Sun Finance
• Fern Software
• Musoni

PARTNERS:
• Maj Invest
• Qware

MEDIA PARTNER:
• Micro Capital