The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an intergovernmental forum for dialogue and cooperation established in 1996 to deepen relations between Asia and Europe. In this framework, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Banca d’Italia, in collaboration with the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), hosted an ASEM Seminar on 29-30 October 2015, on the topic of ‘Financing SMEs in Asia and Europe’.