The Small Biz: Banking Conference will be held in Los Angeles this November 19-21 at the InterContinental Downtown Hotel. A fitting home for this year’s event, downtown LA hosts a number of the country’s top banks, innovative tech startups and, last but not least, a revitalized nightlife that includes our host hotel, the city’s newest tower that has reshaped the skyline.
SMEs present unique problems for ratings agencies, as they do for banks. It is not simply a question of scoring the situation of the entrepreneur’s credit history. Assessing the credit risk of SMEs has been a difficult task for banks due to information asymmetry between lenders and business owners, and challenges in the risk models themselves.
Eneo, a Cameroonian utility company, launched a prepaid service, a solution that “allows clients to tailor their consumption to their budget. The clients control their consumption thanks to an extended reloading offer available 24 hours a day". Eneo partnered with member Ecobank Cameroon, Orange Money, and AfrikPay, who are already operational.
Eneo, a Cameroonian utility company, launched a prepaid service, a solution that “allows clients to tailor their consumption to their budget. The clients control their consumption thanks to an extended reloading offer available 24 hours a day". Eneo partnered with member Ecobank Cameroon, Orange Money, and AfrikPay, who are already operational.
Finturi was one of the fintechs that participated in the TechPitch demos during the Global SME Finance Forum 2019 in Amsterdam last October. Co-founder Erich Schnoeckel presented a new method of invoice financing that connects businesses with financiers and helps businesses borrow money against invoices developed by Finturi. Learn more in this video.
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Whether you call it the triple bottom line, responsible investment or impact investment, they all express the same core desire—to invest in a project, or pipeline of projects, that can deliver financial returns to the investor and impact returns to a constituency, community or beyond.
During the Global SME Finance Forum 2019, ten study visits were organized to different Dutch cities. One of them was to Dynamic Credit, an asset management and direct lending firm founded in 2003 in New York. While the opening of the Amsterdam office in 2009 started the international growth, the strategic partnership with Aegon in December 2017 provided an opportunity to expand into SME lending.
This study of the Japanese model about the development of the Credit Guarantee System provides an in-depth analysis of the credit guarantee system behind the rise and sustainment of Japan’s economy, and explains how it can benefit Turkey. It outlines the credit guarantee system in Japan, which, in view of the author, the General Manager of SME Finance Forum member Credit Guarantee Fund A.S., is one of the best models in the world.
Youxin Financial provides personal financial services to customers around the world. The company is committed to using financial technology to provide innovative and financing solutions for micro and small businesses across China and contribute to the development of the real economy.
In this publication, Youxin Financial shares an analysis of their customer profile and data and AI-driven customer service technology model to solve micro and small businesses' financing challenges.
This report, by the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), examines worldwide evidence of the contribution that the selfemployed and enterprises of different size classes make to total employment.
