2021 Outlook - the New Normal and How Financial Institutions Can Continue to Offer Responsible Financial Services

21 January 2021
Content from a Premium Partner
African Development Bank (Abidjan)

What: Webinar: 2021 Outlook - The new normal and how financial institutions can continue to offer responsible financial services

Who: Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A), partners

When: 21 January 2021, 13:00 GMT (14:00 Cotonou, Paris, Frankfurt, Douala, Kinshasa)

Where: Online

The webinar is the second in a series of four sessions being hosted by Making Finance Work For Africa (MFW4A) and the Internationale Projekt Consult (IPC), Horus and Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (IECD) Consortium, within the context of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Financial sector programme for West and Central Africa.

Under the theme, 2021 Outlook: The new normal and how financial institutions can continue to offer responsible financial services, discussions will center around business recovery and operating in the "new normal."

The participants, mainly banks and microfinance institutions from West and Central Africa, will discuss the main challenges they face in providing financial services to MSMEs. They will also learn from representatives of the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank about how to more effectively support clients in these volatile times.

The Panelists are Nana Araba Abban, head of Consumer Banking, Ecobank, Ruben Dieudonné, Regional Director, West and Central Africa, Baobab Group and CEO of Baobab Côte d'Ivoire, and Olivier Edelman, head of the EIB's Microfinance Unit. The sessions will be moderated by Hugues Kamewe, Financial Sector Advisor, MFW4A and Jean-Claude Thetika, CEO, FPM (Fonds pour l'Inclusion Financière), DRC.

Click here to register

The webinar will be held in French, with simultaneous translation into English.

Media contact:

Solange Kamuanga-Tossou | Communication and External Relations Department| African Development Bank | Email: s.kamuanga-tossou@afdb.org

Technical contact: Tonie-Mai King-Andrews

Tagged:

AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports a day from more than 100 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct.

Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. To address comments or complaints, please Contact us.