Uplinq Financial Technologies, the first global credit decisioning support platform for small business lenders, today announced that its co-founder, Patrick Reily, will be a featured speaker at two prominent conferences in São Paulo, Brazil this September: the Global SME Finance Forum and the Montreal Group Annual Summit.
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At The Montreal Group Annual Summit on September 15, Reily will discuss how alternative data and innovative technologies are improving financial institutions’ reach to underserved small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). This session will highlight global case studies and strategies for overcoming barriers to financial inclusion. Reily will be accompanied by Namrata Rao, CEO of Jocata, and Anderson Pereira, CEO and co-founder of Kapitale. The summit, in partnership with the SME Finance Forum, provides a platform for exchanging best practices and developing sustainable solutions for SMEs. To learn more and register, visit here.
Following Reily’s presentation at The Montreal Group Annual Summit, he will participate in three panel discussions at the Global SME Finance Forum on September 16 and 18, including:
- Innovation Hub: Digital and Embedded Finance: A panel discussing the opportunities for digital banks and fintech to play a bigger role in increasing access to financial services for SMEs
- Digitizing the SME Ecosystem: A conversation focusing on modernizing SME financial practices
- Mitigating Risk with AI-powered Analysis of Alternative Data: A roundtable where banks and fintechs will share their experience using AI to analyze various data sets
The Global SME Finance Forum is hosted by the SME Finance Forum, a network of over 300 leading banks, non-banking financial institutions, fintechs and development banks, created by the G20 in 2012 and managed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.
Reily will be joined on these panels by a number of esteemed panelists with leading roles across financial services, technology, and government. Organizations represented include: Mastercard, Banco Central do Brasil (TBC), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and more.
“I’m honored to have the opportunity to discuss the profound impact AI can make on small business financing at both of these industry-leading events,” said Patrick Reily. “I look forward to sharing with a global audience the ways AI can broaden small business owners’ access to affordable credit while simultaneously mitigating lenders’ risk, and how Uplinq is making this vision a reality.”
Uplinq is a Bronze Sponsor of this year’s annual Global SME Finance Forum Conference, which will gather thought leaders and policymakers to address issues in SME financing, with a focus on AI’s role in digital and sustainable transitions. The event will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, the annual Members meeting, study visits to local SME Finance innovators, fintech pitches, roundtables, innovation hub sessions, training opportunities and the Global SME Finance Forum Awards. To learn more and register, visit here.
A dedicated advocate for financial inclusion, Reily is an economist and early AI pioneer with over 30 years of experience in leveraging AI for lending, fraud, inclusion, and development. Reily is a frequent speaker at the G20 and the World Bank, as well as a consultant to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
To learn more about Uplinq, visit uplinq.co.
About Uplinq
As the first global credit and scoring assessment platform for small business lenders, Uplinq is a purpose-driven company with a mission to help small business owners gain access to fair and ethical credit, while enhancing SMB lending practices for all lenders globally. Uplinq’s breakthrough technology empowers lenders to approve and manage risks on loans they would have otherwise declined based on traditional loan underwriting criteria, while incorporating environmental, market and community data to better understand the specific loan applicant. Its technology has served as a foundation for more than $1.4 Trillion in underwritten loans. Learn more about Uplinq at uplinq.co and connect with them on LinkedIn or YouTube.
About SME Finance Forum
The SME Finance Forum, backed by G20 and IFC/World Bank, is the leading global network of 300+ members/affiliates operating in 190 countries. Network comprises of SME focused institutions providing and enabling finance and services- banks, non-banks financial institutions, fintech, payment platforms, development institutions, credit guarantee companies, insurers, investment funds, supply chain linked players, banking and SME associations, policy advocates, regulators, academia, consulting houses, knowledge aggregators.
About The Montreal Group
The Montreal Group is an international not-for-profit association founded in 2012 to promote collaboration, mutual learning, and exchange of technical expertise and practices among Public Banks dedicated to supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in their respective countries.
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