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Digital Innovation as a Real Enabler for SME Finance: Building an Effective, Unified and Accessible Financial Ecosystem for MSMEs

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OpenGov Asia is pleased to invite you to this exclusive and highly timely OpenGovLive! Virtual Breakfast Insight aimed at imparting knowledge on strategies on how to maximise digital technologies to ensure financial inclusion and create a unified ecosystem for MSMEs.

Multi-sectoral insights and best practices on digitalisation, risk assessment, data security and credit culture-building to empower the ‘Unbanked’

Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) play a vital role in Southeast Asia’s economy. MSMEs comprise 98% of the region’s enterprises. In Indonesia, MSMEs contribute over 50% to the country’s GDP. With an estimated 64 million in operations, they are regarded as the backbone of the country’s economy.

But financing support and options to allow MSMEs to further flourish are limited. New entrepreneurs have limited knowledge and
access to loans, while established financial institutions are at a loss of how to assess MSME’s creditworthiness.

Lack of access to finance is a critical barrier to growth for SMEs globally. Among the reasons is the higher cost to serve SMEs; information asymmetries, or the absence of traditional data used by banks to assess creditworthiness; lack of collateral; and onerous documentation requirements.

A cycle of challenges therefore arises how to make financial products and services more accessible to wider segments of a population, particularly the ‘unbanked’ and ‘underbanked.’

Leveraging technology to advance the country’s underserved, the ‘unbankable’, be bankable

Digitalisation offers exciting prospects and solutions to bridge the gap between institutions and MSMEs. It provides cost-effective, timely, and efficient platforms that can innovate how credit ratings work.

Recent advances in digital technologies and innovative business models represent a game-changer that can help close the SME finance gap by enabling smaller firms to tap alternative sources of funding, thanks to the data generated by their digital footprint.

The digital transformation of SMEs can reduce their operational costs and increase their productivity, which in turn can lead to more transparency and better access to finance. Digitalisation also enables the introduction of new products and services, and wider incorporation of SMEs into the formal economy leading to further financing opportunities.

The increasing access to markets and new business models offered to SMEs by e-commerce and the sharing economy, together with data-driven business opportunities derived from data sharing in open banking frameworks, represent key enablers for digitalisation.

A foundational component for the use of digital financial products and the digitalisation of SMEs is having reliable access to affordable mobile phone and Internet connectivity.

Using China as an example, digital banking has paved the way for MSMEs and private consumers to obtain alternative credit portfolios. This has given their financial institutions the chance to offer varied products and get access to wider market segments.

Their success can be attributed to an effective, unified, and accessible financial ecosystem that empowers any interested players to avail of financial products and services. They were able to increase operational efficiency in terms of disbursement and repayment as well as reach previously untapped consumers.

Is it possible to replicate the same success in Indonesia?

The answer is, in fact, a resounding ‘yes.’

OpenGov Asia is pleased to invite you to this exclusive and highly timely OpenGovLive! Virtual Breakfast Insight aimed at imparting knowledge on strategies on how to maximise digital technologies to ensure financial inclusion and create a unified ecosystem for MSMEs.

This session would serve as a great peer-to-peer learning platform to gain insights and engage and discuss relevant digitalisation trends, digital solutions, and digital adoption know-hows.

Who Should Attend

Meet Our Distinguished Speakers

Setsiri Settaphakorn
Senior Vice President, Digital Banking and Innovation Division
Bank of Ayudhya

Hendra Tan
Chief Executive Officer
OneConnect Financial Technology Indonesia and Vietnam

Mohit Sagar
Group Managing Director & Editor-in-Chief
OpenGov Asia

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