TIB’s Peter M. Noni, New AADFI Chairman
The Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) held its 37th Ordinary General Assembly in Lisbon, Republic of Portugal on 7 June, 2011. The Opening Ceremony, the working session and the Closing Ceremony took place at the Lisbon Congress Centre, Auditorium III, Lisbon-Portugal. After introductory remarks by Mr. J. A. Amihere, Secretary General of AADFI, […]
ADFIAP, Australian APEC Centre hold forum on MSME access to finance
ADFIAP and the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne, with the support of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) have successfully held the “Regional Symposium on Best Practice Regulatory Principles Supporting MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) Access to Finance” on June 27-28, 2011 at the Dusit Thani Hotel, in Makati […]
ADFIAP meets with the Global Corporate Governance Forum
Continuing with ADFIAP’s work and advocacy on corporate governance, ADFIAP Secretary General Octavio B. Peralta, while in Washington, D.C. for the World Federation of DFIs (WFDFI) seminar and Board of Governors meeting, met with Mr. Eugene Spiro, Senior Project Officer of the Global Corporate Governance Forum (GCGF) to explore cooperation activities between the two organizations. […]
ADFIAP joins European SCP study mission
As one of the partner-business membership organizations (BMOs) of the EU grant-funded SMART Cebu project, ADFIAP participated in a two-week, 17- person study mission from February 6-20, 2011 in the Netherlands and Germany to learn firsthand best practices and case studies on sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in these countries. SMART Cebu stands for SMEs […]
SME Center Asia Forum I
“SME Solutions for Banks” February 4, 2011 * 1:00 pm to 4.30 pm Planters Development Bank SME Center Program of Activities 1:30 pm – 1:45 pm OPENING REMARKS Ambassador Jesus P. Tambunting Chairman & President Planters Development Bank 1:45 pm – 2:15 pm SME LENDING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Ms. Cora D. Conde Group Head, ADFIAP […]
ADFIAP Member co-authors health diagnostic tool for public development banks
Ottawa-based ADFIAP Sustaining Member, the International Financial Consulting Ltd. represented by its CEO, Ms. Diana Smallridge, has co-authored with Mr. Fernando de Olloqui for the Inter-American Development Bank, a technical paper entitled, “A Health Diagnostic Tool for Public Development Banks”. This study defines in normative terms what good health looks like across various dimensions which […]
ALIDE launches awards 2011
Latin America and the Caribbean Developing Banking has become a source of permanent innovation in developing technologies, financial and non financial products and services that are made available to productive and social sectors. The relevance of developing banking is shown in its never-ending activity creating and developing markets in its activity, strengthening and developing new […]
ADFIAP Secretariat releases year-end report
The ADFIAP Secretariat has summarized through a one-page enewsletter, the achievements and accomplishments of the Association in 2010 which were categorized into “4P’s” – Programs, Partnerships, Participation and Progress. Programs cover the various conferences, forums, capacity-building programs and training events conducted by the Association during the year. Partnerships highlight the cooperation agreements that ADFIAP has […]
AADFI CEOs opt for enhanced partnership
The 2010 Annual AADFI Forum for CEOs of African Development Banks and Finance Institutions on the theme “Development Financing in Africa – 50 Years and After : Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives for African DFIs”, was held at the White Sands Hotel & Resort, Dar-Es-Salaam, in the United Republic of Tanzania on 1 – 3 December, […]
ADFIAP represented in Latin American climate change forum for DFIs
ADFIAP, on invitation by the Lima, Peru-based Latin American Financial Institutions Development (ALIDE), was represented in the Seminar on “Mitigation of Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability: The Role of Development Banks” which was organized by ALIDE and the Colombian Development Bank for Foreign Trade (Bancoldex) and was held in Bogotá, Colombia, from November 18 to […]