What makes SME lending so hot these days? There is a lot of rumour around the prospective growth of the global SME lending market. It represents 90% of businesses and 50% of employment worldwide.
SMEs are significant drivers of job creation and economic growth. Yet, unlike in the developed world, where they are treated as the goose that lays the golden egg, it is survival of the fittest in ...
Ghana’s small and medium-sized enterprises remain central to employment creation and local economic activity, yet many continue to ...
Smaller enterprises look to boost value-added per worker. Global Finance names the winners of its fifth annual World’s Best SME Banks. When it comes to productivity, bigger is usually better. Small ...
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Perhaps the most important segmentation of banking services is between microbusinesses and the wider small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) population. In most developed economies, the vast majority ...
Back in 2016, as part of Euromoney’s annual Awards for Excellence, we issued our first awards to banks serving up the best product offering to small- and medium-sized enterprises. Singapore’s OCBC was ...
Under the agreement, SMEs will be able to access a wide range of government services through Sanad offices located across all ...
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) is expected to keep the overnight policy rate (OPR) at 2.75 per cent throughout 2026, while gross ...
Tighter bank credit is pushing European SMEs toward online lending and private credit to meet liquidity and growth needs.
Airstar, one of a select few digital banks approved by Hong Kong regulators, has announced SME banking services. AirStar states that following its launch in the summer of 2020 it has experienced a ...
Bank Asia PLC, in association with Bangladesh Bank, has organized a month-long ‘Entrepreneurship Development Program’ for SME ...