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IFC launches SME initiative to alleviate poverty post-tsunami

The International Finance Corporation today established a program in Banda Aceh to provide assistance to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) in Aceh and Nias. The Private Enterprise Partnership-Aceh & Nias is a multi-donor initiative that will support the growth of...

#Access to Finance#funding#international

Sidbi shifts focus to concentrate on SME cluster lending

Sidbi, the apex refinancing institution for the small-scale sector, is set to expand its direct lending... (more…)

#bank#bonds#capital requirements


Accord’s financial report shows a decline in factoring

Accord Financial Corp. (TSX ACD), a leading North American provider of asset-based financial services to businesses, including factoring... (more…)


Landsbanki Commercial Finance announce funding package supporting the sale...

Following its creation in August 2005, Landsbanki Commercial Finance is pleased to announce the completion of its first financing... (more…)

#cash-flow#commercial finance#funding


SGDB lending jumps by 41 per cent in H1...

The activities of the Slovak Guarantee and Development Bank (SGDB) remain focussed on small- and medium-sized enterprises segment (SMEs) while…

#bank#banks#guarantee


SMEs see warmer climate

Interview with Roman Kalina, the executive director in the credit-risk management department of Ceskoslovenská Obchodní Banka (CSOB), sustains it is…

#bank#management#risk management


SMEs slow to protect against risk

Czech businesses are lagging behind their western counterparts in taking advantage of risk management products. The number of tools to reduce…


Indonesian government boosts SMEs financing

The Indonesian government has allocated Rp106 bn (around US$10.5m) for its productive financing program which is aimed at reducing the…


SMEs get Phare backup in view of EU accession

The Ministry for European Integration yesterday launched a new programme aimed at improving SMEs’ competitiveness in view of Romania’s EU…

#exports#smes#training


Raiffeisen goes rural with 30m euro loan

Raiffeisen Bank signed a loan agreement for 30m euro, the money being aimed at further developing lending activities for SMEs…

#bank#Raiffeisen#Raiffeisen Bank


UK businesses predict growth in company failures

More than half of UK mid market businesses expect company insolvencies to rise over the next 12 months, according to…

#British business#insolvencies#regulation


Track records and the loan race

With banks increasingly unwilling to offer loans to companies without collateral, there is a role for government to intervene to…

#bank#guarantees#security

The Better Payment Practice Group gives advice to businesses...

Following its recent web poll which found that over half UK business have suffered a bounced cheque in the last…

#bank#cash-flow#small businesses

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