The expansion of the partnership between Mastercard and Zoho will benefit smes. According to Mastercard, small businesses around the world will have access to a comprehensive array of products and services. The goal of this initiative is to enable simpler business operations for SMBs globally. When fully integrated, businesses can run their company with greater ease, efficiency, and profitability.
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry today announced that the Department of Energy will award 113 grants totaling $121 million to 103 small businesses in 29 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, small businesses that demonstrated technical feasibility for innovations during their Phase I grants competed for funding for prototype or processes development during Phase II.
As a Keynote Speaker of the #SMEFF19, Hans van Grieken will be sharing examples of best practices on how technologies and innovation accelerate convergence of real and financial sector in SME finance. He will be presenting cases of companies that are moving towards platform financial services.
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Matthew Gamser, CEO of the SME Finance Forum, was the keynote speaker at the United Nations Secretary-General's Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Gamser led a policy discussion on innovative mechanisms to finance MSMEs at the UN's headquarters alongside experts from Visa, Milken Institute and KIVA.
SME Finance Forum CEO, Matthew Gamser, recently explained why the G20 cares about financial inclusion (and has since its inception), and why SME access to finance always has been included in its work on inclusion. Gamser offered these insights at a plenary talk at the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) Ministerial Roundtable this week.
During the Global SME Finance Forum 2018, José González-Páramo, Executive Board Director for BBVA, shares why BBVA is focusing their activities around SMEs and the changes happening within supply and demand.
Páramo shared, “Bank funding is the main source of external financing for SMEs. We focus on what makes it difficult for them [SMEs] to access finance, in particular non-standardized information they produce. We are entirely focused on SMEs.”
At the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), we believe that complex inequalities need wide-ranging responses. This is why in 2014, the EBRD launched an ambitious new approach to support the financial and economic inclusion of women.
SME Finance Forum CEO, Matthew Gamser, moderated a panel at Finovate Europe 2019 called "The 20/20 Hindsight Sessions: Routes to digitisation and transformation, from technical and cultural standpoints."
The discussion was about translating strategy into results, putting new systems into place, shifting company culture, and the various roadblocks encountered. They also spoke on the shift of power from financial services to the consumer: a paradigmatic shift that enables fintech.
