How to Grow Internationally Hybrid Meetup

Belgium’s market size is undoubtedly great to launch a business and test it, it also shows limits very soon in the life cycle of a fintech. Being at the center of Europe, there is a viable opportunity of expanding internationally. Something most Belgian companies should consider and embrace in order to fuel growth once they have an established Belgian market strategy.

On May 12th, join us for a very exciting Meetup on How To Grow Internationally and ask your questions you might have on your expansion abroad. 

In this first session, many topics will be covered to tackle the most obvious challenges and avoid the main pitfalls… Go to market strategies, risk coverage and management, partnership possibilities, local support networks, and of course the crucial regulatory aspects of this adventure.

We'll discover different strategies to make sure that your target knows about your launch on their local market with guidelines and advice from Amy Dalton from Invest Northern Ireland. The Go To Market strategy will go through the roadmap on defining your pricing structure, aspects of your target market, your value proposition, and your distribution plan.

Representatives from hub.brussels and BECI will showcase the importance of local networks when expanding abroad and the potential support packages that are available for Belgian companies. 

Get valuable insights from Alexander Hamels   for DLA Piper  into the regulatory environment of the different regions/countries you consider for your expansion. Being in one of the world’s most highly regulated industries, one will need to consider the specificities of the different regions in terms of financial regulation (licencing, law application, …).

Whilst growing internationally is an exciting, natural and rigorous process, it also comes with financial credit risks. That's why experts from AREA42 will help us identifying and managing risk as safely as possible, with tips & tricks on how to execute a good credit risk management strategy.

TESTIMONY
Join this meetup and discover what great Scale-up FinTechs have to share about their International expansion. Jean-Charles Velge from Qover and David Van der Loven from Edebex will give us insightful details on their challenging, yet successful and inspiring journey abroad.

Don’t miss this meetup that aims at helping any financial services and fintech to make informed decisions and avoid major pitfalls that could result in monetary loss. We expect this Meetup to be extremely insightful!

Prepare your questions...!

PROGRAMME:

17:30 - Welcome drink

18:30 - Conference (hybrid)

- Introduction

- Go to market strategy - Amy Dalton from Invest Northern Ireland

-Importance of local networks - Katia Giovanetti from hub.brussels and Jean-Philippe Mergen from BECI    

- Regulatory environments and pitfalls  -  Alexander Hamels   from DLA Piper

- General and Fraud Risk Management - Jessica Nemeth from AREA42 

- TESTIMONIES - Inspiring expansion journeys by:

Jean-Charles Velge from Qover 

David Van der Loven from Edebex

19:40 - Round tables on specific topics (in person only) with Thomas Dupan from hub.brussels
             > to answer all your questions

20:30 - Networking with food and drinks kindly offered by DLA Piper