PointPro Consulting is partner to USAID Competitiveness project for the organization of the Second Conference in the Financial Platform Project, which is to take place on February 11, 2009, with title

The Financial Platform Conference on Investment Strategy Development and Access to Finance

The objectives of this half-day, morning event are to:

• Communicate to a wider and relevant audience ( relevant local businesses and financial institutions)  the systematically identified access to finance issues, bottlenecks and sustainable solutions

• Attract an increased base of relevant businesses from Macedonia having been formulated their expansion and investment goals and seeking external finance.

• Continue to present and discuss the evolving opportunities for the financial services demand and supply sides (businesses and banks)

• Present the currently identified pool of access to finance facilitators (consultants) to be working on the MCP Financial Platform in the future

• Announce the service model offered by the USAID/MCP designed to systematically support the business finance case in Macedonia

• Serve as a match-making and networking opportunity between all access to finance stakeholders, i.e. the Macedonia businesses, financial services providers and process facilitators.