ADFIAP - Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific

Study Tour Program on Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) in India

Administrator — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:04:01 +0000

The program aims to enhance the participants’ knowledge and understanding of MSME financing and development. This one-week study tour program has been structured to give a more relevant and practical perspective on MSME financing and development through visits to policy and regulatory agencies, conduits of MSME funds both in the private sectors, and various microfinance institutions in India)

Seminar-Workshop on Credit Analysis & Evaluation for SMEs

Administrator — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:03:17 +0000

This 5-day course is designed to provide participants with important knowledge and skills in the appraisal of financial and economic feasibilities of investment projects form the point of view of the bank. The workshop will also tackle the different aspects of investment design and how the financial and economic aspects fit into the overall investment plan submitted by a client. In addition, the workshop will also provide the difference in appraisal techniques between purely private-oriented investments and development projects. This course is relevant to participants from both commercial and development banks and other development financing institutions

Responsible Corporate Citizenship Program

Administrator — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:02:32 +0000

ADFIAP, in collaboration with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an affiliate of the United States Chamber of Commerce, will conduct the above-cited international seminar to promote responsible corporate citizenship among financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region.

The aim of this seminar is to encourage development banks and other financial institutions to be model corporate citizens by having an internal written policy on responsible conduct, implement a communication plan to reach the policy’s internal stakeholders, and work to sustain it. As financial intermediaries, they can also develop good corporate citizenship guidelines and embed them in their lending decisions.

Target participants for this program are senior officer/s of development banks and other financial institutions who are designated and/or potential designates as corporate social responsibility (CSR) point person(s) to oversee, direct, and manage a sustainable responsible sustainable citizenship program in each participating institution.

ADFIAP organizes briefing on CSR and technology

eflorencio — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:10:30 +0000

ADFIAP, in cooperation with its member, Planters Development Bank (PDB), organized a half-day executive briefing on February 2, 2012 at the PDB SME Center on the topic, “CSR & Technology: Convergence for Social Good”. The event was attended by 15 corporate social responsibility (CSR) and Information technology (IT) officers of ADFIAP member-banks and other organizations.

Two presentations were made during the event. Team Energy Foundation Executive Director Mr. Roderick de Castro highlighted his presentation with a case study on how CSR, with energy as catalyst, has helped in countryside development. He elaborated on their foundation’s rural electrification program and its positive as well as negative results in the lives of people in far-flung areas of the country. Another presentation, that of Metrolink Solutions Corporation, had Mr. Paul Brandenburg and Mr. George Delmas covering a social business initiative themed “SPARC” or Sustainable Progressive Action for Revitalization of Communities which provides a holistic approach to community development, education and medical services via internet-enabled content, applications and physical support structures. ADFIAP Secretary General, Mr. Octavio B. Peralta, gave the welcome and closing remarks to the participants.

For more information on the presentations, please email inquiries@adfiap.org

ADFIAP-DBT tie-up on track

eflorencio — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:24:41 +0000

Under an earlier signed memorandum of agreement, ADFIAP and its member, Ankara-based Development Bank of Turkey (DBT), have started to mobilize their initial joint activities for this year with a visit on January 24-27, 2012 of two DBT senior officers, Mr. Mehmet Serdar Kabukcouglu and Dr. Faruk Cengiz Tekindag, to the ADFIAP headquarters in Manila. Among their plans, ADFIAP and DBT will initially conduct two training programs to build capacities of development finance institutions, banks and other organizations providing financial and technical support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) covering the areas of financial management and risk-based cash flow lending. Other joint undertakings will ensue following these two initial offerings that will use the experience and expertise of both institutions. The MoA calls for, in general, collaboration of ADFIAP and DBT on institutional capacity-building and consultancy services in development banking.

The Manila visit also gave the DBT officials the opportunity to meet with two co-members in ADFIAP, the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and Land Bank of the Philippines (Land Bank). In DBP, they were briefed on the operational aspects of the Bank, its future plans and directions as well as its green finance and SME initiatives by DBP’s Senior Assistant Vice President Mr. Caesar Matignas, Assistant Vice President Stella Yanuaria (Strategic Planning); Assistant Vice President Anita Salayon (Program Development I); Assistant Vice President Romeo Carandang and Ms. Leonore Tianco (Program Development II). At the Land Bank, Mr. Edgardo Ramirez, Head of Customer Service and Product Development Department, shared the overview of the institution, its future plans and direction as well as its SME initiatives, specifically on its Agri-Agra program.

ADFIAP organizes briefing on infra and institution-building resources

eflorencio — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:50:33 +0000

ADFIAP, in cooperation with Planters Development Bank (PDB), organized a half-day executive briefing on January 26, 2012 at the PDB training center on an on-going infrastructure information development platform and good-practice institutional capacity-building programs for DFIs. The event was attended by 19 participants from ADFIAP member-DFIs and contact-organizations in the Philippines.

The National Infrastructure Information System (NIIS) http://www.infrastructure-system.info/index.htm, a web-based information platform developed with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Republic of Korea, was presented by Mr. Joe Lufkin, Director of the Infrastructure Finance Corporation Limited and ADB Consultant. NIIS facilitates infrastructure project preparation and financing through information gathering, reporting and exchange in three platforms: (1) Open Site, a publicly-accessible website that provides overall information and newsfeed on infrastructure projects (2) Knowledge Hub, a moderated social network platform for NIIS users to communicate to each other, and access resources and news on infrastructure development and (3) Project Platform, a unique web-accessible relational database application which allows users to create and manage complex data and documents regarding infrastructure and climate projects. NIIS users include project developers such as government and government agencies; project advisors and developers; and financiers such as banks, investment funds, DFIs and other financial institutions.

Two presentations on training and consultancy services for institution-building were made by the Development Bank of Turkey (DBT) http://english.kalkinma.com.tr/ and PDB http://www.plantersbank.com.ph/. Mr. Mehmet Serdar Kabukcouglu and Dr. Faruk Cengiz Tekindag of DBT briefed the participants on the operational aspects of the Bank, its technical assistance and consultancy services, and its partnership with ADFIAP on training and consulting. Mr. Vic Abainza, Head of the PDB-FMO Development Centre, briefed the participants on PDB’s activities, partnerships and SME lending model. Mr. Octavio B. Peralta, ADFIAP Secretary General, gave the welcome and closing remarks.

Please email the ADFIAP Secretariat at inquiries@adfiap.org for details of the event.

ADFIAP assists NIIS project via DFI network database build-up

eflorencio — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:22:20 +0000

To facilitate infrastructure project preparation and financing in the region, ADFIAP is assisting in the build-up of a DFI network database for the National Infrastructure Information Systems (NIIS), a web-based information platform developed with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Republic of Korea through the ADB’s Regional Technical Assistance 7379: “Establishment of e-Systems to Support Infrastructure Financing in Asia”.

The NIIS http://www.infrastructure-system.info/index.htm is particularly useful in the initial and early development stages of infrastructure project finance by providing a series of tools to: (a) capture key project data in a systematic and consistent way across multiple locations and multiple sectors (b) identify and fill any gaps in project planning and preparation (c) identify and mitigate project risks and (d) guide a project towards PPP structuring and private-sector institutional and commercial investment by providing links to marketing and funding resources.

NIIS users include project developers such as government and government agencies; project advisors and developers; and financiers such as banks, investment funds, DFIs and other financial institutions.

NIIS facilitates information gathering, reporting and exchange in three platforms: (1) Open Site, a publicly-accessible website that provides overall information and newsfeed on infrastructure projects (2) Knowledge Hub, a moderated social network platform for NIIS users to communicate to each other, and access resources and news on infrastructure development and (3) Project Platform, a unique web-accessible relational database application which allows users to create and manage complex data and documents regarding infrastructure and climate projects. For more information, please email inquiries@adfiap.org

Secretariat sets plans, gears up for 2012

eflorencio — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:34 +0000

The Secretariat, the ADFIAP Consulting team as well as key resource persons met on January 12, 2012 to review last year’s performance and set the directions and plans for 2012. The heads of the Secretariat’s business units – the Institute of Development Finance (IDF), the ADFIAP Consulting (AC) and the ADFIAP Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Center – and its operations unit – the Membership & Events Management Unit, the Knowledge Management Unit and the Finance and Administration Unit – all presented their respective achievements and goals for the year. These presentations were preceded by a benchmark assessment of the Secretariat’s performance and an overview of the role, strategic plan and directions of the Association by the ADFIAP Secretary General.

The IDF has put out its 2012 calendar of activities, highlighted by its three credentialing programs – the Core Development Banking Program (Level 1), the Development Bank Management Program (Level 2) and the Fellow in Development Banking Program (Level 3). A new and innovative offering by the IDF this year is the Tandem Training Program which offers three (3) different courses in one programme to accommodate more participants and be cost effective at the same time. Three such programs are being developed that covers financial management, human resource management and project management; Bank Operation Level I covering customer service, legal aspects and financial management and Bank Operation Level II covering credit management, treasury management and monitoring and control aspects. For more details, please email inquiries@adfiap.org.

The AC has developed, among others, two institutional offerings – the SME Access to Finance (SME A2F) and SME Banking Business Opportunity – whose target markets are industry associations, chamber of industries, cooperatives, bank associations and financial institutions. AC also aims to conduct capacity-building and coaching services in collaboration with ADFIAP members and other partner-organizations.

The Membership & Events Management Unit listed, among others, ADFIAP’s two big ticket events – the 35th Annual Meetings to be held on April 25-27, 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey hosted by the Development Bank of Turkey and the CEO Forum IX to be co-organized with the African Association of DFIs in November 2012 in South Africa (dates and venue to be confirmed).

The Knowledge Management Unit presented its plans and programs, notably the soon-to-be launched ADFIAP Online Learning Platform which has features such as a community portal, an e-campus, discussion board and many others. This will usher the Association into a full-ledged service organization, with both robust face-to-face and online capabilities.

The Finance and Administration Unit presented, among others, the latest financial condition of the Association which has reached an asset base of over one million US dollars.

Key resource persons who attended and shared their inputs included Mr. Orlando P. Peña, former ADFIAP Secretary General and current President of the ABC Consulting; Dr. Alberto Peña, Professor and Associate Director of the Office of International Studies and Programs at the Illinois State University and IDF faculty; Mr. Max Edralin, Jr., Public Relations Consultant of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) and PR Consultant of ADFIAP; and Mr. Victor Abainza, Executive Director, PDB-FMO Development Center of Planters Development Bank.

ADFIAP website visits reach over the 60,000 mark

eflorencio — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:04:19 +0000

As of this writing, the new ADFIAP website has already received 60,373 visits from 157 institutions and individuals in different countries and territories around the world. Statistics showed an average of 70 hits per day, with an average of 3:07 minutes staying time on site. The most visited pages of the website concern with membership information followed by the calendar of events and articles contained in the newsroom section. The top ten countries of origin of the ADFIAP website visitors were from the United States of America, India, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Singapore, Pakistan, Turkey, Australia, Germany and the Philippines. Please visit the ADFIAP website at www.adfiap.org

Secretariat starts 2012 with traditional office blessing

eflorencio — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:21:09 +0000

In keeping with its annual tradition of starting the first day of work for the new year with prayers of renewed hope and continuing vigor, the ADFIAP Secretariat held an office blessing on January 2, 2012 which was officiated by a priest and attended by the staff. As in most countries and cultures, the new year offers fresh opportunities to reflect back as well as to look forward with great optimism to become better people and institutions.

In ADFIAP’s case, being a membership service organization, the new year provides time for it to review the past year and plan ahead in terms of new and improved offerings to its members, partners and constituencies. For updates on activities and programs for 2012, please visit the ADFIAP’s 2012 calendar of events at this link, http://www.adfiap.org/events/calendar-of-events/