Ramallah, West Bank and Gaza, February 14, 2019 —IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, together with the Ministry of National Economy (MONE), Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) and Palestine Capital Market Authority (PCMA) are co-hosting a conference to help boost access to finance for smaller businesses and promote transparency for lenders in the West Bank and Gaza.
The “Movable Asset - Based Finance in Palestine: Opportunities for Financiers and SMEs” conference will focus on how smaller businesses can use accounts receivables, inventories and other types of tangible and non-tangible assets to secure financing. Movable assets often account for most of the capital stock of private firms and comprise an especially large part for small and very small businesses, especially in developing countries, making a sound legal and regulatory framework essential.
“Palestinian SMEs comprise over 90 percent of all companies and yet just one in four are able to access the financing they need to grow their businesses and create jobs , ” said Youssef Habesch, IFC Resident Representative in the West Bank and Gaza, “A modern secured transactions framework will help increase the use of movable asset-based finance, which can provide much-needed financing for smaller businesses.”
The conference will also look at various aspects of modern movable asset-based lending systems and the technological underpinning for secured transactions, which can help drive economic growth. The event will bring together senior officials from the government as well as 75 high level representatives from the financial and private sector.
IFC has been working with the Ministry of National Economy since 2010 to help develop a modern secured transactions framework. Following completion of the legal framework in 2016, IFC has been focusing on capacity building and raising awareness, particularly around movable asset-based finance, for key stakeholders in the West Bank and Gaza,
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