Bancóldex, Colombia’s business development bank, will host, together with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Latin American Association of Financial Institutions for Development (ALIDE), the fourth edition of the Finance in Common Summit (FICS), the global network of public development banks.

The event, which is taking place for the first time in Latin America, will be held on September 4-6, 2023, at Cartagena de Indias, with the support of FICS’s General Secretariat and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD).

This summit aims to strengthen coordination and collaboration among public development banks to promote sustainable development and align financial flows with the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Delegates from public development banks from around the world will participate to exchange and propose new mechanisms to mobilize resources with a sustainable drive.

Participants will discuss ways to strengthen their commitment to guide their strategies towards sustainability and give greater visibility to global policy forums related to challenges addressed by public development banks.

Members of the Finance in Common network include multilateral development banks, regional associations of development finance institutions, as well as the International Development Finance Club, international organizations, regulators, civil society organizations, local actors, and the private sector.

During the summit, which will include academic exchanges as well as discussions of the latest innovations in development finance and approaches to solving pressing development issues, Bancóldex will share its development strategy for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, its role as a facilitator of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with comprehensive financial and non-financial instruments in Colombia.