On 2 April 2019, EBRD’s Financial Institutions Development Programme (FIDP) in Uzbekistan implemented an event on ‘SME financing: trends and insights’ for selected financial institutions in Uzbekistan. Presenters at the event included a number of respective experts who made presentations on topics related to key areas of effective and sustainable management of financial institutions as well as on topics related to effectively working with small businesses. Marga Scheck, head of Development Finance at IPC – Internationale Project Consult GmbH and Manager of the EBRD RSBP for Central Asia, delivered two interactive and well-received presentations on segmentation and the cash flow based lending approach at the event.
The Financial Institutions Development Programme – FIDP was established in June 2018 and complements EBRD’s investment transactions with up to ten partner institutions in the country. The FIDP in Uzbekistan is a technical cooperation programme of the EBRD funded by the Republic of Korea and the EBRD Small Business Impact Fund (Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, Taipei China and the USA).