BIS central bankers’ speeches  3  designed to summarize what we had heard and to plan next steps.7 Some of the meetings took the form of small focus groups or listening sessions.
Other meetings were larger in scale, with more formal agendas focusing on a particular aspect of small business financing, such as minority entrepreneurship, the role of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), or federal guarantee loan programs. Several meetings focused on a specific industry, such as auto suppliers.