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Bank of Japan to help SMEs to raise capital...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is to kick-start the development of an asset-backed securities market for small businesses to give them capital-raising alternatives to Japanese banks, whose bad-debt portfolios make them reluctant to offer new loans. The central bank will...

#bank#liquidity#receivables

SME sector as the driving force behind economic growth

Serbian Assistant Minister of Economy and Privatisation, Blagoje Paunovic, said as part of the Strategy for the Development of Small…

#banks#economic recovery#guarantee


Banks lend SMEs US$161million to May, up 49% from...

Colombia's banking system issued loans totalling 451bn pesos (US$161m) to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) this year to May, up…

#bank#guarantee#guarantees


SMEs run by women are key to export growth

The federal Government's export agency, Austrade, plans to double the number of exporters within three years, mainly through small businesses…

#exporters#international#International Trade


Innovative financing sought for small scale industries sector

The Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Small Industries (CGTSI), set up by the Government of India and the Small Industries…

#bank#interest rates#management


Lending to SMEs tumbles in three months to May

Kookmin Bank, Korea's largest lender, lowered this year's target growth rates for corporate loans to less than 5 per cent,…

#bank#banks#leasing


Standard & Poor’s downgrades Kookmin Bank's Outlook Rating over...

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) announced yesterday that it had downgraded its outlook on the long-term credit rating for…

#bank#risks#smes


State bank working for new regulation for SMEs

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor, Dr. Ishrat Husain, said the central bank was working on new prudential regulations that…

#bank#exports#regulation


Asian Development Bank to assign US$150 million to Pakistan...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pledged US$150 million in assistance to Pakistan to restructure and develop its small- and…

#ADB#Asian Development Bank#bank


Small business credit scoring service launched

Kreditinform has, with Experian Scorex, introduced a new credit-scoring system for small- and medium-sizes enterprises (SMEs) to be known as…

#credit scoring#risk#small business


Resona bailout causing concern to SMEs

In Tokyo, the US$17bn bail out of Resona bank is being hailed as a promising first step towards fixing Japan's…

#bank#financial services#smes


Personal indemnity insurance for non-executive directors a key issue...

Less than half of non-executive directors (NEDs) are protected by personal indemnity insurance. Yet NEDs could soon take on further…

#commercial finance#international#risk

Directorate for Enterprise publish an analysis of the use...

The Directorate General for Enterprise (DG Enterprise) of the European Commission has published its study of the role that factoring…

#BCR Publishing#European Commission#international

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