SME Banking Club will hold a seminar in Yerevan on November 9, dedicated to global trends in SME sector development and SME lending opportunities in some sectors of economy. The seminar is initiated and supported by Converse Bank.

“SME Banking Club is a professional international platform for business bankers, designed for exchange of information and experience on the services that global, regional, local banks and financial companies offer to micro, small and medium businesses. The club cooperates with international financial organizations and financial structures including commercial banks, which seek to increase the value of their financial services by providing a variety of financial and non-financial services for SMEs, and are ready to respond to the most critical challenges of the present and thus achieve a new level in development of their banking business,” said Andrey Gidulyan, CEO at SME Banking Club.

The organization has regularly organized regional and international banking events in Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Egypt since 2010.

“This is the first seminar organized by SME Banking Club in cooperation with Converse Bank in Armenia, and our goal is not only to communicate comprehensive information on SME development trends to the seminar participants. We emphasize SME sector development and expect that it will result in establishment of a platform in Armenia, where efficient cooperation will become a wonderful precondition for further development of SME financing sector,” said Rostom Badalyan, Corporate Business Director at Converse Bank.

The seminar in Yerevan will be attended by foreign guests and representatives of Armenia’s banking sector. In particular, the seminar is to feature speakers such as SME Banking Club CEO Andrey Gidulyan, experts Aleksey Sayapin, Ivan Yerko and Mikhail Medko, who have prepared reports on relevant global tendencies of SME banking development, lending for SMEs in agriculture, and financing of energy efficiency and alternative energy.

The applications for admission can be submitted to cis@smebanking.club or via SME Banking Club’s Facebook page.

Participation in the seminar is free.