With us to officially open the International Growth Markets Knowledge Plenary is Zennon Kapron, Director of Kapronasia, who will share a few thoughts on the collective challenges and responsibilities facing the industry. Zennon Kapron, Director, Kapronasia
Securing venture capital investment is an important stepping stone to growth for start ups, but it can be notoriously challenging. In the session, ‘Venture Capital Investments in Growth Markets – An Asia Focus’, we examine how start-ups can position themselves to win investment. We look at what VC firms are looking, and what aspects of …
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Zennon Kapron, Director, Kapronasia
Over the last two decades, Fintech has helped accelerate the onboarding of the unbanked and underbanked onto the financial ecosystem. Still, there are over a billion people who remain outside and on the fringes. Moreover, there are thousands of consumers and SMEs globally who have access to financial products but lack the financial education and …
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Emerging markets have become home to new and successful FinTech firms in recent years, which have helped transform emerging economies through servicing the once unmet needs of individuals and SMEs. This success story has built on technological and business model innovation, but there have also been unique challenges along the way. In the ‘Spotlight on …
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How can government bodies, in times of uncertainty and in complex systems such as the financial sector, factor current developments into the design of frameworks, so that they can continuously adapt to the developments, optimally balancing the promotion of innovation and the preservation of stability? Ueli Maurer, Federal Councillor, Head of Federal Department of Finance, …
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