Mexico: Seminar “Promoting Financial Inclusion via Development Banks’ Innovation Policies”

Teaser

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) organized a technical workshop with the aim to promote financial inclusion through development bank financial innovation policies. The workshop is part of ECLAC’s "Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Bank Financial Innovation Policies" project whose aim is to analyze the state of financial inclusion in a number of Latin American countries . The final objective of the project is to identify and promote development of a spectrum of financial instruments which allow development banks to foster financial inclusion of SMEs, given that these businesses play a central role in the productive fabric and job creation.

Event information

Date

4 - 05 Jul 2016, 05:00 - 14:00

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Event type

Meetings and technical symposiums

Participation

By invitation

The seminar consists of six sessions: (i) Objectives and central hypotheses of the project “Promoting financial inclusion through development bank policies on financial innovation”; (ii) Financial inclusion of SMEs in Mexico: stylized facts, measurements and challenges, (iii) The role of development banks in promoting financial inclusion: market failures versus the creation of markets; (iv) Development bank programs and instruments for promoting financial inclusion in Mexico and lessons learned; (v) Development banks' programs and instruments for promoting financial inclusion: comparative experiences with other Latin American countries; and (vi) Promoting financial inclusion through innovations in finance: new instruments.

Practical information

Seminar held in Spanish

Schedule

	July 4, 2016
9:15 – 9:30	Opening Jorge Mario Martínez Piva (ECLAC) Sr. Esteban Pérez Caldentey (ECLAC)
9:30 – 10:15	Session 1: Objectives and central hypotheses of the project Promoting Financial Inclusion through Development Bank Policies on Financial Innovation Moderator: Sr. Francisco Villarreal (ECLAC) Speaker: Sr. Esteban Pérez Caldentey (ECLAC) Discussion
10:15 – 11:00	Session 2: Financial inclusion of SMEs in Mexico: stylized facts, measurements and challenges Moderator: Ramón Padilla (ECLAC) Speaker: Sr. Ramón Lecuona (Universidad Anáhuac)
11:00 –11:20	Coffee
11:20 – 12:00	Session 2: (continuation) Financial inclusion of SMEs in Mexico: stylized facts, measurements and challenges Commentators: Sr. José Antonio Quesada (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Sra. Valerie de la Fuente (Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores) Discussion
12:00 –13:00	Session 3: The role of development banks in promoting financial inclusion: market failures versus the creation of markets Moderator: Sr. Cambiz Daneshvar (ECLAC) Speakers: Sr. Gonzalo Tapia (BANSEFI) Sr. Adalberto González (Banco de México) Commentator: Sr. Enrique Díaz (Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias) Discussion
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 15:30	Session 4: Development bank programs and instruments for promoting financial inclusion in Mexico and lessons learned Moderator: Sra. Cornelia Kaldewei (ECLAC) Speaker: Sr. Ramón Lecuona (Universidad Anáhuac) Commentator: Sr. Francisco Villarreal (ECLAC)
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee
16:00 – 17:00	Session 4: (continuation) Development bank programs and instruments for promoting financial inclusion in Mexico and lessons learned Discussion
17:00 – 18:00	Conclussons and recommendations
18:00	Cocktails

	5 de Julio, 2016
9:00 – 10:30	Session 5: Development banks' programs and instruments for promoting financial inclusion: comparative experiences with other Latin American countries Moderator: Sr. Esteban Pérez Caldentey (ECLAC) Speakers: Sra. Lilianne Pavón Cuéllar (Universidad Anáhuac) Sr. Antonio Morfín (Universidad Anáhuac) Commentator: Sr. Juan Manuel Andrade (Senado de la República, Instituto Belisario Domínguez)
10:30 – 11:00	Discussion
11:00 – 11:20	Coffee
11:20 – 13:00	Session 6: Promoting financial inclusion through innovations in finance: new instruments Moderator: Sr. Ramón Lecuona (Universidad Anáhuac) Speakers: Sr. David Gutierrez (Banco Santander) Sr. Jorge Reyes (Universidad Anáhuac) Sr. Federico Arellano Ortiz (MiCochinito)
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 15:30	Session 6: (continuation) Promoting financial inclusion through innovations in finance: new instruments Commentators: Sr.Gerardo Castillo Ramos (Centro de Estudios Económicos del Sector Privado) Sr. Javier Magaña (Unión de Instituciones Financieras) Sr. Rafael Velasco (Bancomext)
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee
16:00 – 17:00	Session 6: (continuation) Promoting financial inclusion through innovations in finance: new instruments Discussion
17:00 – 18:00	Conclussons and recommendations