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SMEs benefit from IFC funding

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced that it will provide finance that will enable loans to be extended to SMEs in Kazakhstan (more…)

Bank Negara announce SME guarantee fund

An SME Assistance Guarantee Scheme has been set up to ensure viable SMEs adversely impacted by the economic slowdown continue…


60bn liquidity boost for SMEs

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has instructed the Finance Ministry to seek THB60bn (EUR132m) of loans to boost financial liquidity for…


Big hopes for small firms amid crisis

Indonesia's SMEs remain optimistic about the country's economic prospects for the first half of 2009 despite the global economic turmoil (more…)

#bank#exports#SME lending


Public sector banks told to extend credit to SMEs

The Indian government has told public sector banks to extend credit to fund-starved Indian SMEs (more…)


30% boost in SME loans

The value of loans to SMEs jumped 30 per cent last month from a year earlier (more…)

#bank#interest rates#smes


Banks to provide KRW700bn to SMEs

The country's major banks have reached an agreement to provide up to 700 billion Korean Won in fresh loans to cash-strapped SMEs…

#bank#banks#liquidity


Thai banks must do more for SMEs

Japanese researchers have urged the government and concerned parties to improve Thai financial institutions' credit-appraisal capacities for SMEs to improve…

#bank#interest rates#management


Banks urged to show support for growth strategy by...

Mainland regulators are asking banks to further loosen their restrictions on loans to SMEs, in support of Beijing's economic stimulus measures…


Nanjing provides CNY3.2bn support for SMEґs

180 small and medium-sized enterprises in Nanjing have signed contracts with financial institutions to receive a total of CNY3.2bn (EUR349.3m) in loans…

#3M#bank#guarantee


No difficulty in securing loans, says ABM

Commercial banks in Malaysia are healthy, resilient and bullish about lending, the Association of Banks in Malaysia (ABM) said today…


Govt introduces new perks to help SMEs

The government has introduced new incentives to help SMEs overcome the slowing economic condition amid global economic uncertainties, said Minister…

PSU banks fear NPA rise as govt pushes for...

Voicing dissatisfaction over credit delivery by state-owned banks, the finance ministry has asked them to increaes lending to SMEs. However,…

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