Events & Presentations
The Center for Financial Inclusion regularly sponsors events (and panels at industry events) on a variety of financial inclusion topics with the intent to bring participants in the industry together to promote new ideas and to collaborate in tackling industry challenges.
The Center’s professionals also regularly speak at industry conferences on issues such as prospects for financial inclusion, client protection and avoiding overindebtedness, investing in inclusive finance, risk management and governance at microfinance institutions, access to finance for persons with disabilities, energy and microfinance, and more.
For more information on events, please view the listing below.
FIEC Meeting
April 12-13, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsOn April 12th and 13th the Financial Inclusion Equity Council (FIEC) is convening. The meeting will be hosted by Triodos Investment Management. FIEC is the first membership organization to bring together the leading private entities that make equity investments in financial inclusion throughout the developing world. For more information on the group, click here.
2016 Conference on Impact Investing & Community Finance
March 11, Boston, USAOn March 11th Deborah Drake will be speaking on a panel focusing on ‘International Priorities - Business Operations, Execution and Risk Management, Performance Measurement’ held at Tuft University’s Conference on Impact Investing & Community Finance. This conference will bring together top impact investing and community finance experts with a broad range of experience across domestic and international projects and programs.
Webinar: Commentary on the Basel Committee Report on Financial Inclusion
March 10, VirtualFor the first time ever, the Basel Committee has issued draft guidance on financial inclusion, and invited comment. This guidance has the potential to influence the actions of banking supervisors across the globe. The Center for Financial Inclusion is holding an exclusive webinar to discuss the guidance in preparation for a response to the guidance. The webinar will feature commentary from Dr. Daniel Schydlowsky, former Superintendent of Banking in Peru, and a panel of experts. For more information and to register, click here.
New Research Horizons: CFI and Accion Research Fellows
December 2, 9:30AM - 10:30AM ET, VirtualJoin us in a webinar to meet the 2015-2016 CFI and Accion Research Fellows and hear more about the research that they are undertaking. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss some of these topics CFI and Accion have identified as the more critical topics to moving forward on financial inclusion today. The Fellows are Guy Stuart on G2P as an on-ramp to financial inclusion; Leon Perlman on challenges of technology access in enhancing financial inclusion; Christie Stickney on financing the growth of enterprise; and Amy Jensen Mowl on big data for financial and social inclusion. To register for the webinar, click here. For more information on the CFI and Accion Research Fellows program, click here.
Governance Working Group Call: Corporate Governance Paper Discussion
September 10, 9:30AM ET - 10:30AM ET, VirtualOn Thursday, September 10th, 2015, 9:30- 10:30am EDT, Governance Working Group will be hosting a discussion on Corporate Governance for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This presentation will feature a section from the recently published World Bank paper, Corporate Governance for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), written by Ira W. Lieberman and two World Bank staff—Laura Ard and Pasquale Di Benedetta. Please find an invite for this call here. This call will also include updates from our Governance Working Group members on their recent governance projects. We hope you will be able to join us for this discussion.
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