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IDC pushes for more support for SMEs

68 per cent of businesses funded by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) in the 2008/09 financial year were SMEs, up from 56 per cent in the previous period (more…)

#funding#smes#trade

Banks urged to partner with SMEs

Banks operating in the country have been advised to partner with SMEs in order to propel the growth of the…


GroFin Africa Fund extends $160 million to African SMEs

A company specialising in financing general businesses, GroFin Africa Fund (GAF), yesterday launched a $160 million scheme for small and…


EIB to extend loan to South African SMEs

South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation IDC) has secured a 60-million credit line from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance…


Real need to recapitalise SME development corporation

The Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises is working on a budget proposal for the recapitalisation of the Small Enterprise…


KCB leads opening up of Sudanese finance market

KCB opens three more branches in Southern Sudan as demand for transactions such as invoice discounting, trade financing and asset financing…

#bank#banks#international


UBA Growing Businesses scheme extended to SMEs

Nigerian bank United Bank for Africa (UBA) says at least 600 Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) across Africa will…


Lack of information means European loan underexploited

Ugandan SMEs have not exploited a loan developed by the European Investment Bank due to a lack of information about how to…

#bank#banks#insurance


The springbok finds its step

Roger Herbert, Executive Secretary of the Debtor Finance Committee at the Banking Association of South Africa, talks to Factorscan about…

#assignment of receivables#international#International Trade


Banks shunned by SMEs as they to turn to...

Treasury figures indicate that demand for loans from the state-supported Kenya Industrial Estates (KIE) rose dramatically in 2008.  (more…)

#bank#banks#smes


DFCU Bank secures loan to fund local SMEs

Dfcu Bank secures 7million euro loan to finance SME expansion. (more…)

#bank#international#security


World Bank to triple funding to developing countries

The IFC, the World Bank's private lending arm, is to extend additional trade finance funding to developing nations. (more…)

#bank#international#International Trade

Debtor finance performing well in the downturn

David Cory of Nedbank Corporate Debtor Management outlines the growing significance of debtor finance to South African companies. (more…)

#bank#funding#invoice

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