Marco Financial secures $26m to help fund SMEs in Latin America
September 22th, 2020 – Marco Financial, the financing platform built for small and medium-sized Latin American exporters, has bagged $26m in funding and credit. The company will use the new cash influx to address the $1.5tn global trade finance gap ...
SMEs in APAC were least fazed by the pandemic, finds SAP
September 14th, 2020 – Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region are in a unique position to adapt to the changing workplace this year. At least, that was what was uncovered in a new Oxford Economics study commissioned b...
How can Africa succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
August 25th, 2020 – Key features of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – accelerating digitalization, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, robotics, and 3D printing – have obvious and important implications for education, employmen...
Digitization, a catalyst to the exponential growth of African Small Businesses
September 28th, 2020 – The year 2020 came with lots of hopes and expectations for individuals and businesses, interesting economic projections across most of the world’s thriving industries, a landscape of growth and meaningful insights for what s...
How peer-to-peer lending is helping SMEs during the pandemic
September 27th, 2020 – In recent years small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been reporting declining sales and trouble with distribution, among a string of other problems. With small businesses contributing more than 60 percent to GDP, the impli...
SMEs in APAC were least fazed by the pandemic, finds SAP
September 14th, 2020 – Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region are in a unique position to adapt to the changing workplace this year. At least, that was what was uncovered in a new Oxford Economics study commissioned b...
Budget negotiations: SME finance instruments need to be improved
September 1th, 2020 – After a significant cut on centrally managed SME finance instruments like InvestEU and Solvency Support, the main stakeholders at European level ask for some corrections during the current Trilogue negotiations between the Euro...
Mastercard supports Australian SMEs with digital resources
August 20th, 2020 – Mastercard announced its ‘Getting Back to Small Business’ support package to help reignite small business growth in Australia, offering local SMEs access to a range of digital resources, tools, and services to help them navig...
East African SMEs Accelerate Their Growth With Cloud Deployments
August 17th, 2020 – Small and medium enterprises in the fast-growing East African economic region leverage cloud technologies to automate, improve and accelerate business processes and growth. SMEs in the East African region are using digital transf...
Asia-Pac SMEs responding well to pandemic, but face challenges in digital transformation: poll
August 14th, 2020 – The Covid-19 pandemic has compelled small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to swiftly adopt new ways of working and selling, and firms in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have responded better than their peers elsewhere in key a...
