Join Us at the Webinar ‘Choose Bulgaria – Your Fintech Destination’

7 June, 2020

 

 

Are you involved in Fintech? Do you want to enter or to expand your activities to the EU markets? 

Innovative Sofia and the Bulgarian Fintech Association are thrilled to invite you to join the Zoom webinar ‘Choose Bulgaria – Your Fintech Destination’ on the benefits and opportunities of developing a Fintech business in the European Union by using Sofia and Bulgaria as an access point to the EU. 

‘Choose Bulgaria – Your Fintech Destination’ is organized in collaboration with the Dubai International Centre (DIFC) –  a top ten global financial centre and the leading financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region. Special guest is the Sofia-based fintech Klear.

 

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, 30 June 2020

Time: 9:00 am to 10:30am (EEST)

Agenda

9:00 am – 9:10 am: Welcome Remarks – Ali Hassan, Senior Representative for Europe and North America, DIFC Authority

9:10 am – 9:35 am: Interactive presentation on possibilities for developing a Fintech business in the EU with the help of Bulgarian Fintech Association and Innovative Sofia. Moderated by: Georgi Penev, Co-director at the BFA.

9:35 am – 9:50 am: Success Story – Why Klear choose Bulgaria for a gateway to the EU market

9:50am – 10:30 am: Q&A session

 

To participate you need to register first.

Registration

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Who are the Bulgarian Fintech Association, the Dubai International Centre and Klear

The Bulgarian Fintech Association is a non-profit organization uniting the leading fintech companies in the South Eastern Europe region, and especially in Bulgaria. The mission of the Association is to create a platform uniting all parties in Bulgaria interested in Financial Technologies and to encourage the communication and exchange of ideas among them. Furthermore, the Bulgarian Fintech Association aims at representing and safeguarding the shared values of its members before regulators, investors, financial institutions, foreign associations, partners and any other parties and thus, to foster the development of the sector. It consists of 47 Fintech member-companies from the whole specter of the fintech industry.

Dubai International Financial Centre is a top ten global financial centre and the leading financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, which comprises 72 countries with an approximate population of 3 billion and a nominal GDP of US$ 7.7 trillion. With a 15-year track record of facilitating trade and investment flows across the MEASA region, the Centre connects these fast-growing markets with the economies of Asia, Europe and the Americas through Dubai. DIFC is home to an internationally recognised, independent regulator and a proven judicial system with an English common law framework, as well as the region’s largest financial ecosystem of more than 25,600 professionals working across over 2,400 active registered companies – making up the largest and most diverse pool of industry talent in the region. The Centre’s vision is to drive the future of finance. Today, it offers one of the region’s most comprehensive FinTech and venture capital environments, including cost-effective licensing solutions, fit-for-purpose regulation, innovative accelerator programmes, and funding for growth-stage start-ups.

Klear is a unique combination of Peer-to-Peer lending platform and a whole range of financial education tools. It provides users with the opportunity to lend money and generate a return on investment or to borrow quickly and easily at reasonable interest rates. Klear was founded in Sofia in 2015 by Loic Le Pichoux, Lukasz Lukaszewski and Nikolay Stanev. Since then, Klear has been named The Best FinTech Startup in Bulgaria at the Central European Startup Awards for two consecutive years  – in 2017 and 2018.