Time for banks to give SMEs more respect

Banks and financial institutions need to adjust their perceptions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A new survey has found that SMEs are not the financially unsound and poorly-managed businesses they are widely thought to be.

Head of Confedaration of Industries Calls for an SME Bank

Robin Lau, head of the Singapore Confederation of Industries (SCI), yesterday urged the government to include in the second off-Budget package expected to be announced on Friday 12 October 2001 the creation of a bank that would specifically cater