AFF2023: Digital and Innovative SME Financing Solutions

Panelists:

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