Specific highlights in this newsletter include:

• Activities supporting national and regional dialogue to inform the regional MSME policy agenda
• Pushing Micro Finance to the mainstream to enhance financial inclusion
• Designing a Regional Risk-Sharing Mechanism to enhance the impact of South Med guarantee companies
• Open banking: how can it boost MSME finance? the EU-PSD2 (Payment Service Directive 2) role model
• How to leverage digitalization to capture the new opportunities to develop SME exports