Event Details
The South African Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, in association with Absa Corporate and Investment Banking and TradeFlow Capital Management, have organised a panel discussion with key subject matter experts on the topic of Enabling trade in Africa through FinTech and Collaborative Finance: Challenges and Solutions.
Join Michelle Knowles, Pan Africa Head of Trade Finance Product at Absa CIB and John Collis, Chief Risk Officer at TradeFlow Capital Management as they discuss the following:
- Trade Finance gap and challenges faced by SME's accessing financing
- The importance of digitalization to increasing accessibility to trade finance
- Challenges faced that need to be overcome to fully realise the benefits of digitalising Trade Finance
- Creating ways to close the trade gap, with FinTech and alternative sources of funding, partnerships with DFI's, including the Continental Free Trade Area Agreement
- Gap between what banks are doing and what customers are looking for
- Theme of capturing data