Asia Microfinance Forum 2010 Workshops

Workshop A: Social Performance Management – Microfinance Centre
Workshop B: Client Protection – Smart Campaign
Workshop C: Financing Strategies For MFIs: The Essential Checklist For Successful Investor Relationship Management – Symbiotics
Workshop D: Housing Finance – Interactive Discussion

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Workshop C: Financing Strategies For MFIs: The Essential Checklist For Successful Investor Relationship Management

Wednesday 13th October
Evening TBC

                                         

This workshop is by invitation only and open to registered MFI participants in the Invest Asia Marketplace. For more information click here.

The boom in microfinance has attracted a steady stream of institutional investors over the past ten years leading to increased financing opportunities for microfinance institutions. This workshop guides microfinance institutions as they begin the process of forming relationships with the investor community. You’ll review the process that investors consider when investing in microfinance institutions, throughout the session you’ll go through each step from the origination of a transaction and initial due diligence to financial terms negotiations. Each participant will leave the workshop with a sophisticated checklist of the elements necessary to successfully attract financing from MIVs worldwide.

  • Learning more about investors: a profile of the microfinance investment market;
  • Starting a relationship with an investor: due diligence process and credit origination;
  • Cultivating the investor – investee relationship: transparency and relationship returns;
  • What return or additional support services can microfinance institutions expect from investors?

Each attendee will be encouraged to submit their challenges ahead of the workshop so that the session can be tailored to your specific requirements.

Facilitators

 

Rajitha Vinnakota
Senior Investment Analyst Asia
Symbiotics

Rajitha is senior investment analyst for South and East Asia and is in charge of our Asian regional hub in Singapore. Prior to joining Symbiotics in 2009, Rajitha was a High Yield Research Associate at Wachovia Capital Markets. She also worked as an Analyst in Wachovia’s Institutional Investor Management group. Rajitha also taught English in the Dominican Republic. She holds an MBA from INSEAD; an MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics and a BA in Public Policy from Duke University.

 

Jérôme Savelli
Regional Manager
Symbiotics

Jérôme Savelli is regional manager for Europe and Asia. Before joining Symbiotics in 2006, he worked for Deloitte & Touche as junior auditor in the financial institutions department and as regional risk project manager for Société Générale Investment Banking in Hong Kong, China. He subsequently worked for three years as director of Initiative Development-Ghana, a microfinance NGO delivering credit, savings and training services to urban poor in Accra, Ghana. Jérôme holds a degree in Business Administration from the ESSEC Business School, Paris.