Videos

Cyber Readiness Institute Co-Chairs Samuel J. Palmisano and Ajay Banga discuss the launch of the non-profit focused on helping small- and medium-sized businesses improve cyber risk management.

The live TV interview with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg Markets Report took place on October 19, immediately after the inaugural meeting of the Cyber Readiness Institute. At the session, CEOs and senior leaders discussed the best approach for developing practical tools and resources to help companies around the world build cyber resilience.

Shane Williams, Co-founder of UBS SmartWealth, shares the experience of launching a robo-advisory service inside a large bank, covering choices between build or buy, in or outside the organization (setting a separate entity or not?), with the pros and cons of either choice.

David Brear interviews Claire Calmejane of Lloyds Banking Group for FinTech Insider. Claire is also a speaker for the Global SME Finance Forum 2017 in Berlin.

Grameen Foundation and Musoni Kenya are working together to give smallholder farmers across Kenya access to the financing they need to improve their farms and earn a higher income. Launched in 2015, Kilimo Booster received support from, Musoni Kenya, a fast-growing microfinance institution (MFI) that has created a fully automated, mobile phone-based banking platform to service its clients. This enables its clients to repay their loans using Safaricom’s M-Pesa[3] system.

This video is an update on how the loan program is performing.

SME Finance Forum member Diamond Bank is featured in this CNBC Africa story. 

The Nigerian Agriculture Promotion Policy is built to reduce the country’s dependence on food imports and increase export earnings. However, this drive would be impossible without the participation of micro small and medium sized companies.

Small and medium-enterprises, or SMEs, represent more than 90% of all businesses across Asia. The contribution of SMEs to trade, jobs, and economic growth is constrained by many factors – one of which is inadequate access to finance.

A 2016 ADB survey showed that SMEs experience the highest rate of rejection – more than half of trade finance proposals sent to banks. Weak finances and a lack of collateral often prohibit SMEs from getting loans or financial support from banks.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) employ about half of the workforce in developing countries. SME growth may thus raise incomes for many low-income households. But SMEs often face significant constraints to growth relative to large firms ranging from excessive red tape to limited access to finance.

ICAEW and the British Business Bank (BBB) have teamed up with more than 20 other business organisations to help SMEs find the best options for financing growth

Together, they have released the latest version of the Business Finance Guide – a Journey from Start-up to Growth, in print and digital form, in an effort to persuade small businesses that there is finance out there beyond the high street banks.

A Partial Credit Guarantee (PCG) Fund can increase access to credit for MSMEs by providing third-party credit risk mitigation to lenders. In case of default, the fund mitigates risk by absorbing a portion of the lender’s losses on the loans made to MSMEs.

The tiny South Pacific island nation of Tonga has become a trial ground for one of the most expansive credit reforms in the world, as banks allow vanilla farmers to use a new kind of collateral: their crops.