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DRAFT PROGRAM XIV NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROFINANCE AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION (Saint-Petersburg, 25-27 November 2015) |
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| 25 November 2015 14:15 – 15:45 | |
| Educational events | |
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Training session How to Create a Successful Microfinance Product for Entrepreneurs. Best practices of the Russia CMA Winners. |
Information Meeting Border Opportunities For Business: Chinese Experience. |
| 25 November 2015 16:00 – 18:00 | ||
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Opening of the Conference. Plenary Session. Measures to Improve Financial Inclusion and Microfinance: How to Ensure Balanced Development of the Market in the Current Economic Situation? |
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| 18:30 – 20:30 Welcome Cocktail | ||
| 26 November 2015 09:30 – 11:30 |
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Plenary Session. Microfinance 2.0. Reloading: Key Areas of the Market Reform for MFOs, CCCs, ACCCs and Pawnshops. Systematic Approach in Developing Measures of State Support to the Sector. |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break | ||
| 12:00 – 13:30 Panel Discussions and Roundtables | ||
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Session 3.1. The Role of Responsible Finance Principals and Consumer Protection in Enhancing the Market Confidence. |
Session 3.2. Consumer Credit: Practice and Challenges. |
Session 3.3. Attracting Financial Resources of Funding for MFOs, CCCs and Pawnshops. Measures to Support Small and Medium-Sized Businesses. Prospects of Cooperation with Banks and the Role of Institutions for SME Development. |
| 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch | ||
| 15:00 – 16:30 Panel Discussions and Roundtables | ||
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Session 4.1. Innovations in Financial Technologies: Digital Financial Services as the Factor of Improving Financial Inclusion. |
Session 4.2. Developing Personnel Policy in MFOs, CCCs, ACCCs and Pawnshops. Staff at the MFIs: From Recruitment and Training to Motivation and Career Development. |
Session 4.3. Inspection by the Bank of Russia: Practical Experience of Direct Contact and Remote Interaction. |
| 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break | ||
| 17:00 – 18:30 Roundtables for Type Segments of the Microfinance Market | |||
| Commercial MFOs | Non-Commercial MFOs | Consumer Credit Cooperatives | Pawnshops |
| 19:00 – 23:30 Gala Dinner in Honour of the Conference Participants | ||
| 27 November 2015 09:30 – 11:30 | ||
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Debate Reforming SROs. HowWill the New Law "On Self-Regulatory Organizations in Financial Markets” Impact on Improving the Quality of Their Work? |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break | ||
| 12:00 – 13:30 Panel Discussions and Roundtables | ||
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Session 7.1. Risk Management and Credit Analysis in Microfinance: Best Practices and Innovative Technologies |
Session 7.2. Fundamentals of IFRS in the microfinance sector: Preparing for the Transition to a Single Chart of Accounts! |
Session 7.3. Promoting Microfinance Services: Successful Strategies to Attract Customers and Efficient PR Instruments |
| 13:30 – 15:00 Extended Coffee Break | ||
| 15:00 – 16:30 Panel Discussions and Roundtables | ||
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Session 8.1. Managing Overdue Payments in Crisis. |
Session 8.2. Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act: Current Changes in Legislation and Experience of Inspections. |
Session 8.3. All to Online Office Account! From Reporting to Digital Interaction with the Bank of Russia. |
| 16:30 – 17:00 Closing of the Conference | ||
