Event Name: 5th Pacific Microfinance Week 2015: Next Mile Financial Services in the Pacific
Event Date: September 21-25, 2015
Event Location: Heritage Park Hotel, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Event Summary: Pacific Microfinance Week (PMW) 2015 is a series of workshops, field visits and formal conference sessions focusing on providers of financial services for poor people in the Pacific region. The topics that will be discussed include digital finance and delivery channels, women’s empowerment through access to finance, enhancing the potential of non-bank financial institutions, policy and regulation, innovations in products and services, developing measures of financial inclusion, how corporate governance structures can improve organizational performance, and a special session on financial inclusion in the Solomon Islands. The most recent PMW was held in 2013.