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UK financiers offer help to SVB-hit companies

UK
As the tech start-up sector comes to terms with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), two UK financiers, Muse Finance and Channel Capital, have stepped in to provide finance to the sector. 14/03/2023

Optimum Finance appoints Amir Pournasrollahzadeh to lead regional sales

UK
Bristol-based invoice finance provider Optimum Finance has appointed Amir Pournasrollahzadeh to lead its regional sales team in the East of England as the business continues to grow its portfolio of SME clients and build on its success in 2022. 14/03/2023

TIF23 Soundbites

UK
Keynote: The opportunities for trade and trade finance following enactment of the Electronic Trade Documents and Financial Services and Markets Bills 14/03/2023

Iwoca and CRIF - new partnership to speed up SME lending

UK
UK’s alternative lender Iwoca is rolling out instant decisions for loans up to £25,000 with the help of CRIF, Europe’s leading credit information provider. 14/03/2023

TISG signs reverse factoring agreement with Banca Ifis

Italy
Banca Ifis, a challenger bank specialising in financial products and services for SMEs signs a reverse factoring agreement with The Italian Sea Group SpA (TISG), a global operator in the luxury yachting sector, to support their production chain. 14/03/2023

Indian financiers rescue Silicon Valley Bank-hit firms

India
An international rescue effort has come into play to help the many tech start-ups that were funded by the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Not only are major banks, such as HSBC, which has bought SVB’s UK unit, involved, but a raft of Indian companies in the alternative finance field are also playing their part. 13/03/2023

Strong growth forecast for Philippines‘ SCF market

Philippines
The Philippines’ supply chain finance market has enormous potential, and is forecast to cover 15 per cent of MSMEs’ cashflow needs by 2024. This is the view of UnaCash Supply Chain Financing based in Manila, in the Philippines. 13/03/2023

OFID to loan US$40m for Vietnamese SMEs

Vietnam
The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has announced that it is providing a US$40 million loan to Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MSB) for on-lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). 13/03/2023

Saudi SME bank allocates US$2.8bn for SME financing

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Small and Medium Enterprises Bank (SME Bank), a development bank under the National Development Fund, announced the allocation of SAR10.5bn (US$2.8bn) to support the small and medium enterprises sector, through existing and new financing programmes offered by the Bank, including direct and indirect lending programmes, fina 13/03/2023

Bill to streamline business payments for BMO clients

USA
Bill, one of the leading US financial automation software providers for small and midsize businesses, announced a partnership with BMO to digitise and streamline business payments. BMO Bill Connect, powered by BILL, is a bill pay and invoicing platform that helps customers pay and get paid in a simpler, faster and more secure way. 13/03/2023

Inaugural Trade and Investment Forum Launched

UK
BCR and ITFA held their first Trade and Investment Forum in London on Thursday at the offices of SMBC. The TIF event sought to look at the potential for opening up the market for investing in trade finance assets in order to increase liquidity through asset distribution and thus enabling further growth in trade finance and hopefully helping to reduce the trade finance gap – currently thought to be around US$1.7trn. 13/03/2023

Poland postpones mandatory e-invoice system to July 2024

Poland
Poland was allowed by European Council to introduce mandatory e-invoicing starting from January 2024. However, the latest announcements from the Polish Ministry of Finance, the mandatory e-invoicing system will be postponed to July 2024. 10/03/2023

Premji Invest leads US$110m investment in SCF platform Mintifi

India
Premji Invest led a US$110m funding round for supply chain financing (SCF) platform Mintifi. In the round have participated as well the existing investors, Norwest Venture Partners, Elevation Capital, and International Finance Corporation. 10/03/2023

Embedded invoice financier Aria concludes €50m debt fundraising from M&G investments

France
France-based embedded invoice finance provider Aria, has concluded €50m in a debt fundraising round from M&G Investments. This funding comes in addition to €20m already secured in 2022. 10/03/2023

Douglas Grant comments on UK SME outlook as GDP grows 0.3%

UK
Commenting on the outlook for SMEs as GDP grows by 0.3 per cent in the UK, Douglas Grant (pictured), Group CEO of Manx Financial Group PLC, said: “The latest GDP figures for January show an unexpect 10/03/2023

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