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The International Debt Collections Handbook is a key tool for businesses when it comes to making decisions concerning collections in foreign countries. Each country report includes a snapshot of their current local economic situation, including GDP, major industries, import-export growth and Atradius Collections' local success rate.
During the Global SME Finance Forum 2018, Ricult's Gabriel Torres demoed the company's services at the TechPitch on November 6.
Ricult aims at providing solution to small farmers painpoints including (i) access to information and technology and credit offerings aligned with crop cycle.
Este webinar explorará cómo las plataformas líderes de e-commerce constituyen una puerta de acceso a nuevos servicios financieros para Pymes. Teniendo acceso a los datos de los comerciantes y sus transacciones diarias, las plataformas de e-commerce obtienen un valioso conocimiento y reconocen los riesgos y oportunidades del financiamiento de negocios pequeños.
SME Finance Forum member CreditEase Wealth Management received the Best Social Impact Project in Wealth and Society in China award at The Global Wealth and Society Awards 2018.
During the Global SME Finance Forum 2018, Inbonis' CEO, Alberto Sanches, demoed the company's services at the TechPitch on November 6.
Inbonis is the first Credit Rating Agency covering small businesses in the EU.
Business Insider asked Forbes 30 Under 30 finance superstars to share their best career advice for young professionals.
Loek Janssen, 29, cofounder and CTO of Nova Credit - a SME Finance Forum member - started for a Stanford graduate research project. It's gained rapid adoption since then. Now, the startup has raised $20 million to-date and is backed by investors like General Catalyst and Index Ventures.
With the rapid development of China’s digital economy, especially that of digital technologies such as Big Data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, the digital model has become an important impetus for the development of financial inclusion. It eliminates the time and geographical restrictions, lowers the transaction costs and financial services threshold, and effectively expands the coverage of financial services. The accessibility of financial inclusion has been further promoted.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group is increasing access to SME finance in Lao PDR by fostering a business enabling environment and developing market solutions for serving SMEs.
According to the release, SMEs make up 99 percent of total enterprises and over 80 percent of the workforce, however they are confronted with a financing gap of $1.2 billion.
SME Finance Forum member, Qatar Development Bank (QDB) impacted 298 Qatari SMEs by the disbursement of QR1.6bn from QDB through Al Dhameen.
Al Dhameen, is an indirect loan facility programme that aims to motivate banks to offer financing to startups and SMEs that are unable to provide the necessary financing guarantees or collaterals, according to the article.
SME Finance Forum member, European Investment Bank (EIB) will supply €100 million loan to Crédito Agrícola (CA) to support access to credit for SMEs in Portugal.
A total of €200 million will be available for SMEs due to CA matching EIB’s funds of €100 million. According to the release, EIB will finance up to 100 percent of the total project cost for SMEs and mid-caps and up to 50 percent for other types of projects.
