Fintech in the Arab World: With and Beyond COVID-19

The Arab world has shown itself to hold many opportunities for growth and development in the Fintech sphere, whether that be digital identity or peer-to-peer lending; savings or SME financing. COVID-19 is rapidly changing the Fintech Landscape, pushing businesses and individuals worldwide to adopt digitised processes and solutions.

The Arab Financial Inclusion Innovation Prize (AFIIP) is delighted to collaborate with the MENA Fintech Association (MFTA) for our upcoming webinar Fintech in the Arab World: With and Beyond COVID-19. We have an excellent line-up for you.
- Nadine Chehade, Senior Financial Sector Specialist from CGAP, will present key findings from a recent landscaping of fintechs in the region.
- Tania Ziegler, Global Benchmarking Lead at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, will highlight the academic work of CCAF to inform dynamic regulations and policies surrounding Fintech.
- Arjun vir Singh from the MFTA will then lead a panel discussion with the two speakers, Maher Loubieh, co-founder of the Fintech Hala, and Mohamed al-Feky, CEO of the Fintech valU In advance of the webinar we encourage all our Fintech community to respond to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance's ongoing survey to assess the impact of COVID-19 on Fintechs globally. With huge thanks to our speakers and our supporters CGAP, SANAD, Spectrum Digital Holdings and Tamer Amr.

Interested in taking the CAMBRIDGE SURVEY? Click here

Speakers & Moderators

Nadine Chehade

Speaker

Nadine is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist, representing CGAP in the Arab world. She works to deepen CGAP’s engagement in the region, collaborating with various partners, including regulators and policy-makers, donors and investors, regional associations, and businesses.

She currently focuses on fintechs and digitial financial services, in addition to leading CGAP’s global work on financial services in humanitarian crises. More broadly, she covers matters related to regulation, business, and markets, with the overarching goal of advancing financial inclusion. Her research work has included regulatory frameworks, cash transfers, digital financial services, postal financial inclusion, microfinance, and financial inclusion measurement.

She joined CGAP in 2012, bringing ten years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, and microfinance rating. Nadine holds an MBA from ESSEC in France. She is fluent in Arabic, English, French, and conversational in Spanish.

Tania Ziegler

Speaker

Tania is the Lead of Global Benchmarking at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School and manages the Centre’s alternative finance benchmarking program. This programme tracks the growth and development of capital raising alternative finance activities spanning Europe, North, Central and South America, Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East and Africa.

She has authored 18 industry reports since joining the CCAF. Tania is an expert on SME finance and also leads the Centre’s work on ‘SME Access to Finance in LATAM’. Tania completed an MSc at the London School of Economics, and a BA at Loyola College Maryland. Tania is a 2010 Fulbright Scholar.