Register for Open Webinar  Digital Banking Solutions Series on Automation – Part II

Register for Open Webinar Digital Banking Solutions Series on Automation – Part II

Register for Open Webinar Digital Banking Solutions Series on Automation – Part II

Tuesday, March, 3, 2020

Register for Open Webinar Digital Banking Solutions Series on Automation – Part II

Tuesday, March, 3, 2020

When: Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. EST
REGISTER HERE

The SME Finance Forum is hosting a two-session webinar series on Digital Banking Solutions, the first was on platforms and the second will be on automation. 
 
Part Two: Automation
With rapid digitalization in the financial services ecosystem, banks are embracing automation and other innovations to improve SME lending processes. By using data, AI, and machine learning, banks are integrating paperless online applications and single platforms to process loan application, eliminating paperwork, and the slow and expensive processes to make lending decisions. These technologies enhance, not eliminate the role of loan officers and manual underwriters, and aggregate data for verification, analyze and monitor financial statements, allowing for quicker and in some cases, nearly instantaneous lending decisions.
 
In this webinar, open to SME Finance Forum members and non-members, you will hear from two SME lenders who are embracing these technologies. First, we will hear from the SME Credit Risk Strategy Team at member Garanti BBVA, who will discuss their credit automation pilot that they launched in 2018. We will also hear from OakNorth, a multi-billion-dollar digital bank focused on redefining lending to small and medium-sized businesses globally using its next-generation credit platform.
 
What you will learn
– How to utilize technologies to reduce manual processes
– How to decrease time for lending decisions
– How to improve loan monitoring
 
About the speakers
 
Sean Hunter is the Chief Information Officer at OakNorth, a multi-billion-dollar fintech firm focused on redefining lending to small and medium-sized businesses globally using its next-generation credit platform. Prior to joining OakNorth, Sean was one of the first commercial engineers at Palantir Technologies in Europe where he led trader oversight partnerships with large financial institutions, particularly Credit Suisse, which led to being co-head of the JV called Signac. Before Palantir, Sean was a strategist at Goldman Sachs for 8 years, working in a number of areas including equities, fixed income, and algorithmic trading.
 
Alper Eker is the Head of Retail Credit Risk at Garanti BBVA. He has with 20+ years of experience and background in process automation and corporate risk management in international corporations like General Electric and universal banks like BBVA and Garanti BBVA bank, started his career in GE Corporate R&D Center in NY, USA, as a technology expert, led different technology development projects in GE power systems, healthcare, and GE Capital. Since 2016, leading Retail Credit risk area for Consumer and SME loans in Garanti bank, responsible from wing to wing management of Underwriting to Monitoring areas for unsecured products i.e. personal loans, overdrafts, credit cards, as well as secured products such as Mortgage and Auto loans. In his role, Alper Eker has focused on optimized workflows and digitalization of credit circuits, lately in SME retail microcredit. Alper Eker, holds a Ph.D. degree in System Controls and Process Optimization from the University of Houston Chemical Engineering Department.
Read more about this webinar here
Contact: Jessica Alfaro |  jalfaro2@ifc.org
 
Register below to join the online meeting from your computer. Prior registration is required to attend the webinar. Enter meeting number 731 217 597 if registration form is not displayed.

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ICSB & Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)  Team-up for High Impact Research Papers and Workshops at ICSB World Congress 2020 in Paris!

ICSB & Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Team-up for High Impact Research Papers and Workshops at ICSB World Congress 2020 in Paris!

ICSB & Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Team-up for High Impact Research Papers and Workshops at ICSB World Congress 2020 in Paris!

Tuesday, March, 3, 2020

ICSB & Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Team-up for High Impact Research Papers and Workshops at ICSB World Congress 2020 in Paris!

Tuesday, March, 3, 2020

About Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)

GEM is a consortium of national country teams, primarily associated with top academic institutions, that carries out survey-based research on entrepreneurship around the world. GEM is the only global research source that collects data on entrepreneurship directly from individual entrepreneurs! (read more

GEM Papers and Workshops – Invitation to Submit

ICSB’s 2020 World Congress in Paris invites GEM teams to submit GEM research papers and workshops though a dedicated track (called GEM) in the ICSB Submission System. The Track Chair for GEM will be Ms. Aileen Ionescu-Somers.

Aileen Ionescu-Somers, GEM Executive Director 

As GEM’s Executive Director since February 2019, Aileen’s main objective is to ensure that GEM is increasingly perceived as the world-class reference for data-driven entrepreneurship knowledge and expertise worldwide. Aileen is a highly experienced academic researcher/teacher and an author of books, case studies, and journal/newspaper articles.

Before GEM, she spent three years as Associate Dean of Business School Lausanne, working on embedding entrepreneurship and sustainability in research, undergraduate, executive and doctoral programs. For 15 years, she was Director of a membership-driven research platform at IMD, a top-ranked business school based in Switzerland. There, she directed collaborative corporate sustainability research projects involving some 60 global companies and ran multi-stakeholder thought leadership events. Prior to IMD, Aileen spent 13 years in program management at WWF, heading program operations for Latin America and Africa and ultimately, globally

PAPER & WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS DUE ON: MARCH 22, 2020
ICSB invites everyone to the ICSB World Congress in Paris, France to showcase their creative ideas, inventions, inspirations, and achievements in Entrepreneurship and support to SMEs.
 
ICSB & ISBE Team-up for High Impact Research Papers and Workshops at ICSB World Congress 2020 in Paris!

ICSB & ISBE Team-up for High Impact Research Papers and Workshops at ICSB World Congress 2020 in Paris!

ICSB & ISBE Team-up for High Impact Research Papers and Workshops at ICSB World Congress 2020 in Paris!

Tuesday, March, 3, 2020

ICSB & ISBE Team-up for High Impact Research Papers and Workshops at ICSB World Congress 2020 in Paris!

Tuesday, March, 3, 2020

About the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) enables excellence in small business across research, policy, practice and learning communities. ISBE seeks to connect its membership and communities to pursue excellence in the field of small business and entrepreneurship.

Founded in the mid-1970s, following the publication of the 1971 Bolton Report, informal meetings led to the founding of the Institute in the late ’80s. Now over 4000 members strong, ISBE has a rich history of responsive debate on small business and entrepreneurship through its events, policy think-tanks, and publications. For more information, click here.

ISBE Papers and Workshops

ICSB’s 2020 World Congress in Paris invites ISBE scholars to submit research papers and workshops through a dedicated track (called ‘ISBE’) in the ICSB Submission System. The submission deadline is March 22. The Track Co-Chairs for ISBE will be Dr. Kiran Trehan.

Dr. Kiran Trehan, ISBE President

As President for ISBE, Kiran’s main objective is to advance an impactful agenda which has a real influence on policy and reflects the growth and ISBE’s vision of enabling excellence in entrepreneurship and small business research.

Kiran Trehan is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Partnerships and Engagement, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Centre for Women’s Enterprise, Leadership, Economy & Diversity at The University of York. Professor Trehan is a key contributor to debates on leadership, enterprise development, and diversity in small firms and businesses. She has led a number of leadership, enterprise, and business support initiatives and has extensively published in journals, policy reports, books and book chapters. Her work has been supported by grants from a full range of research funding bodies; including the Economic and Social Research Councils and Arts Humanities Research councils, government departments, regional and local agencies including Local Enterprise Partnerships and Chambers of Commerce and the private sector. Professor Trehan has held national and international advisory roles that shape debates and policy in diversity and enterprise and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Birmingham.

Dr. Simon Raby, ISBE International Representative

As ISBE’s International Representative, Simon’s main objective is to encourage international collaboration between ISBE and like-minded scholars and organizations that raise the profile of research in small business and entrepreneurship. Dr. Raby moved to Canada in 2015 to conduct a program of research on the growth of Alberta’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to understand the drivers of growth, innovation, and diversification for these firms. This research has since led to the creation of “The Leader’s Growth Mindset”.

Simon is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Mount Royal University’s Bissett School of Business (Calgary, Canada), Associate Director for the University’s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Director for the Growth Compass. The Growth Compass is focused on delivering evidence-based insights on business growth and scaling. Simon’s research program seeks to uncover the strategies, practices, and methods of support that enable business growth, leadership transitions and people performance in small firm contexts. Simon is an experienced educator, scholar, and practitioner, and author of books, case studies, and journal/newspaper articles, and has experience in growth strategy and innovation consulting.

PAPER & WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS DUE ON: MARCH 22, 2020
ICSB invites everyone to the ICSB World Congress in Paris, France to showcase their creative ideas, inventions, inspirations, and achievements in Entrepreneurship and support to SMEs.
Pioneering Research on Job Creation and Destruction Awarded 100,000 Euros

Pioneering Research on Job Creation and Destruction Awarded 100,000 Euros

Pioneering Research on Job Creation and Destruction Awarded 100,000 Euros

Monday, March, 2, 2020

Pioneering Research on Job Creation and Destruction Awarded 100,000 Euros

Monday, March, 2, 2020

The 2020 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research goes to John Haltiwanger, Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, USA

Haltiwanger is awarded for his pioneering research advancing our understanding of job creation and destruction, productivity growth, and the role of small business and entrepreneurial firms in economic development. The Global Award is the foremost international award in entrepreneurship research with a prize sum of € 100,000.

Professor John Haltiwanger has made significant contributions to the field of entrepreneurship by improving our understanding of job creation and destruction, productivity growth, and the role of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) in economic development. He has played a major role in the careful development of large, longitudinal firm-level datasets, and introduced a novel and widely adopted measure of firm growth that addresses previous statistical biases. His work has influenced public policy and national statistical offices around the world.

Professor Haltiwanger’s most important contributions include:
• To question the conventional wisdom of the job creation ability of small business. He provides evidence that large and mature firms account for most of the newly created manufacturing jobs, and that these jobs are of higher quality than those in SMEs in that they are more likely to persist in subsequent years.
• To show the importance of firm age as opposed to size: the job creation in small firms takes place in the first few years of their existence, as captured in the “up-or-out” dynamics.
• The decomposition of productivity growth into contributions from continuing, entering, and exiting firms. He shows that the largest component of growth can be attributed to continuing firms improving their productivity over time.

The Award ceremony will take place in Stockholm on May 11. For further information, please visit our website, www.e-award.org.

The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research is the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship. The Award honors significant contributions to theory-building on entrepreneurship and small business development. The Award consists of the statuette ”The Hand of God” by the Swedish sculptor Carl Milles and a prize amount of 100 000 Euros.

Founder of the Award: Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. Co-founder: The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). Sponsor: Vinnova – Sweden´s Innovation Agency. Donor: Lars Backsell.

STI Forum 2020 5th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals 12 – 13 May 2020

STI Forum 2020 5th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals 12 – 13 May 2020

STI Forum 2020 5th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals12 – 13 May 2020

Monday, March, 2, 2020

STI Forum 2020 5th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals12 – 13 May 2020

Monday, March, 2, 2020

Call for Innovations!

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in collaboration with the Global Innovation Exchange (GIE), has initiated its 2020 Call for Innovations to help implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The call, which is open from now until 9 March, 2020, is open for innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs and sustainability change agents worldwide to submit their workable solutions for SDG implementation, particularly through one or more of the six “entry points” identified in the Global Sustainable Development Report:

  1. Human well-being and capabilities
  2. Sustainable and just economies
  3. Sustainable food systems and healthy nutrition
  4. Energy decarbonization with universal access
  5. Urban and peri-urban development
  6. Global environmental commons

The selected innovators will be invited to participate in the 2020 STI Forum at UN Headquarters in New York on May 12 and 13. At the Forum innovators will have the chance to present their innovation and connect with a valuable network – other innovators, those who can support or scale up your innovations, and those seeking to utilize such innovations. 

This year’s Call for Innovations is hosted on a GIE Custom site and will use GIE’s innovation profiles as applications for the contest. As part of this partnership, all innovators who respond to the Call will be automatically featured on Global Innovation Exchange (GIE) which brings many other benefits such as: 

  1. Ability to showcase the innovation’s accomplishments and milestones, making it easier to tell the innovation’s story. Innovation profiles will be featured on GIE indefinitely here.
  2. Exposure to funders and other supporters through initiatives such as GIE’s Innovation Finder Service
  3. Opportunity to apply for other similar opportunities in the future using the same innovation profile.
  4. In 2020, GIE will launch automatic funding alerts based on your innovation profile details. For now, discover the funding opportunities that fit your innovation here.

The purpose of this Call for Innovations is to support existing innovative solutions by creating networks and communities among people who are developing technological innovations, those who can support or scale up such innovations, and those who need such innovations in order to implement the SDGs. Innovations are sought from diverse backgrounds, including women, youth, Indigenous peoples, and open collaborative networks.

Innovations can be submitted before 9 March 2020 via Global Innovation Exchange at https://stiforum4sdgs.globalinnovationexchange.org.