Mekar at the IFC International Forum “Digital Financial Inclusion Conference 2025”

Vietnam, October 30, 2025 – The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group focused on private sector development in emerging markets, hosted the Digital Financial Inclusion Conference 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on October 29–30, 2025. The international forum brought together more than 200 participants from across the Asia-Pacific region, including industry leaders, regulators, investors, and digital finance innovators, to exchange insights on how financial technology can accelerate economic growth, expand financial inclusion, and create quality jobs.

At this prestigious forum, Mekar Investama Teknologi Indonesia’s leading impact lending platform was invited as a panel speaker in a session titled “Movables Finance & Embedded Credit Solutions” held on Thursday (October 30). The session explored how movable asset-based financing and embedded credit integration within digital ecosystems can expand financial access and efficiency in emerging markets.

Mekar was represented by its Founder & CEO, Pandu Aditya Kristy, who shared the company’s experience and innovations in developing financing models that are adaptive and solution-oriented for productive businesses in Indonesia. In his presentation, Pandu emphasized the importance of leveraging alternative data, implementing digital collateral registries, and fostering cross-sector collaboration to accelerate risk assessment and expand financing reach.

He also highlighted the importance of supporting productive sectors such as agriculture one of the backbones of local economies through financing approaches that go beyond capital distribution to building resilient and sustainable business ecosystems.

“As a representative of Mekar, I shared how we continue to innovate to empower farmers in Indonesia, emphasizing the need to go beyond simply disbursing loans. True financial inclusion requires more than fintech lending services; it requires an integrated financial ecosystem that supports circular and sustainable growth. We discussed innovative strategies such as contract farming and optimizing potential through movable asset financing to build a more resilient ecosystem,” said Pandu Aditya Kristy, Founder & CEO of Mekar.

The two-day forum served as an important milestone for Mekar to showcase Indonesia’s digital financing innovations on the global stage. This participation also reinforces Mekar’s commitment to fostering cross-border collaboration to strengthen social and economic impact through inclusive and sustainable productive financing.

In line with this vision, Mekar Investama Teknologi continues to strengthen Indonesia’s productive financing ecosystem through various technology-driven initiatives. As a fintech company focused on empowering MSMEs, Mekar delivers innovative solutions to expand financial inclusion, including the implementation of contract farming operations and the launch of Multi-Micro Agriculture Financing (MMAF) a micro-financing scheme designed to support the working capital needs of farmers and local agribusiness players, strengthen supply chains, and contribute to Indonesia’s national food security agenda.

As Indonesia’s leading impact lending platform, Mekar remains committed to delivering financial solutions that not only drive growth but also create tangible social impact for MSMEs across the country.