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The XVII National Microfinance Summit organized by the National Program for Financing Micro-Entrepreneurs and Rural Women (PRONAFIM) took place on the 9th of October in Mexico.
As the largest event in Mexico targeting MFIs, its main purpose was to exchange experiences, trends and promote new projects that contribute to the growth of microfinance institutions. In particular, this year’s event was looking at “Transcending Microfinance”.

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Amarante Consulting is very excited to be participating in the conference Seamless East Africa 2018, which will take place in Nairobi from September 3rd to 5th, 2018.

Our managing director, Sahana Arun Kumar, will take part in the Financial Inclusion Summit on September 3rd. She will give a presentation on “The rise of digital credit”, which will focus on understanding of digital credit users,

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We are thrilled to announce that, from July 23rd to 27th 2018, two members of Amarante’s team will be teaching at the Boulder Microfinance Training (MFT) in Turin, Italy!

Our managing director, Sahana Arun Kumar, will participate to the French version of the MFT. She will be giving a course entitled “Digital Financial Services and the industry’s fast-paced evolution: What perspectives for MFIs?

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From August 22nd to 24th 2018, Amarante Consulting will be at the ninth edition of the Central American and Caribbean Microfinance Conference! This conference will take place in San Salvador, El Salvador and will focus on the theme “Financial Inclusion in Competitive Markets and Challenging Environments”. Our managing director, Sahana Arun Kumar will be part of a panel entitled “Technology solutions to increase and facilitate access to clients to the services offered by the MFIs”.

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On July 9th and 10th 2018, Amarante Consulting was delighted to be part of the forum “EMBRACING FINTECH Developing into the Microfinance Institution of the Future”, held in Cairo, Egypt. Our managing director, Sahana Arun Kumar, gave a presentation on “Digital transformation fundamentals”, addressing the basic elements of digital transformation, the business case for MFIs, digital trends in the MENA region and, finally, strategies to go digital.

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From June 28th to 30th 2018, our director, Pascal Simon and Senior Consultant, Landry Hugues Ngbesso participated in the 4th edition of a Training Seminar on “New Issues in the Digitalization of Financial Services in the UEMOA space”. This seminar targeted private sector companies and public administration stakeholders, and was held at the at the Palm Club Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Read more about it (in French) here: https://news.abidjan.net/h/640616.html

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