AFF2023: Digital and Innovative SME Financing Solutions

❓Watch the recording of the panel discussion on the topic of Digital & Innovative Solutions - New things in access to SME finance, that took place on April 26, during Alternative Finance Forum 2023 (@Alternative Finance Forum 2023)

🎙Olena Gryniuk (@SMEBankingTV SME Banking Club) moderated the discussion.
LinkedIn profile:   / olena-gryniuk-55857ba  

Panelists:
🎤Yaroslav Dubov (Ninja Lender) LinkedIn profile:   / yardubov  
🎤Katalin Kauzli (PartnerHub, @partnerhub1 ) LinkedIn profile:   / katalinkauzli  
🎤Karol Leszczyński (Comarch Financial Services, @ComarchFinance ) LinkedIn profile:   / karol-leszczy%c5%84ski-b1753914b  

Panel's agenda⏰:
Introduction to the Panel - Olena Gryniuk - 1:18
Introduction of the panelists - 1:55
❓How do you see the path of the digitalization of financial services for SMEs in your countries? - 9:40
❓How mandatory e-invoicing helps to accelerate SME finance? - 22:00
❓What will drive the development of factoring in the CEE, except e-invoicing? - 30:00
❓What are the prerequisites on the market that will show that there is a chance to get access to rejected SME loan applications and give them a NEW chance? - 36:42
❓What are the main challenges in voluntary referral arrangements with the banks on rejected SME loans? - 39:48
❓Should the government legislate a mandatory process for SMEs that have been rejected for finance, for linking them up with other lending opportunities from challenger banks and alternative finance providers? - 40:54
❓If the bank refuses a loan how then alternative lender can finance that loan? - 43:55
❓There is a need for SME finance on the market, and there are tech tools, helping to automate and digitalize the SME financing process, we have more and more data available. But still, SMEs have trouble getting financed and we discuss the topic of access to SME finance for the next consequent year. How financial organizations can embrace that? - 47:18

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