The MSME community gathered at the Biltmore this morning to partake in BELTRAIDE'S FINTECH forum. The forum is being held under the theme "digital innovation to Boost Economic Development in Belize".
It is designed to foster the effective utilization of digital solutions across diverse sectors of the economy. Here's what the executive director of BELTRAIDE shared with us:
Dr Leroy Almendarez, Executive Director, BELTRAIDE
"Let me first of all say that it's really the end, well we are coming towards the end of national competitiveness month and we thought it would be good especially since we have been talking so much about digitalization that we conclude the month with a FINTECH forum. And so for the FINTECH forum there is a project under the IDB that talks about digital inclusion and so we spoke with the central executing unit and together we worked this out. So this project is really an IDB funded project and so today what do we expect? We expect those who are in someway offering some kind of digital service or included or are using digital FINTECH tools so you see people there from Atlantic Bank you see individuals from the Belize Bank and all of those other entities from digi you know they are Apart of it as well and also you see those providers digital service providers because once you create an ecosystem then it simply means as we become more focused on the fact that the world is becoming more cashless there is a need to find an easier way for payments for those to be engaged in digital forum, digital communications. So it's those kinds of things that we are looking at and so this afternoon in our network session all those providers, those of us within the enabling environment from the government side as well as interacting with each other getting their feedback and telling us what are some of those other things that they might see as their challenges."
