sme-financing
BankingMas, Bank of Ghana and Development Bank Ghana to Develop an Integrated Financial Ecosystem to Support Growth of Asia-Africa Sme Trade Corridor
BusinessBubbl Announces Launch of Bubbl Lite to Serve the Sme Market
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BusinessSMEs Falling Through the Financing Cracks: How FinTech Can Be the Hero
The Importance of SMEs in Exchange Infrastructure
Date: August 11, 2022
By Jesús González Nieto, Head of BME Growth Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. In the UK, SMEs account for 99% of the business population and are responsible for around half of GDP and employment. The situation is similar across Europe as SMEs contribute to over half of Europe’s GDP and employ around...
Better SMEs for a Better World
Date: June 27, 2022
By Puneet Chhahira, Head of Marketing and Platform Strategy, Infosys Finacle On the fifth anniversary of Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises Day (MSME Day), we would like to emphasize the extreme importance of accelerating the progress of this sector, and the role that technology-led banking can play in it. Deemed the “economic backbone” of the world,...
4most Wins Government Funding to Develop Green Lending Proposition for SMEs
Date: June 22, 2022
UK’s largest credit risk firm partners with Meckon and Swishfund to deliver cheaper finance to greener SMEs via environmentally responsible ‘Green Credit Score’ 20 June 2022, London – The UK’s largest independent credit risk and actuarial consultancy, 4most, has won a competitive, SBRI government funded award from Innovate UK, to build a UK-wide green lending...
Retail SMEs Globally Require a New Funding Model That Meets Their Needs
Date: May 17, 2022
By Tomas Formanek, CEO and founder of international forecasting provider, Inventoro Quite rightly, SMEs often feel like ‘Cinderella organisations’. The bedrock of the world economy – and especially indispensable to all Western nations – they employ as much as 60% of the global workforce and represent roughly 99% of all companies in the EU. Despite their...
Enabling More Financial Freedom Through Open Finance for SMEs
Date: May 9, 2022
By Andrea Varga, head of innovation at Aryza. Open finance is poised to transform the financial services sector and unlock much-needed access to funding for SMEs. As an extension of the now-familiar open banking concept, it encompasses a wide range of other financial products. While open banking is the approved sharing of client information between...
Banks Are Missing Out on a Major Opportunity in Trade Finance
Date: April 6, 2022
By Patrick Manasse, Chief Compliance Officer, MonetaGo As the nature of trade evolves, how it is financed needs to also change. Trade finance is about securing an asset, such as a contract for payment or an invoice, and lending against that asset. Lenders have a multitude of products that help exporters get paid for goods...