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Category Archives: SME Access to Finance Issue
Financial Disclosure or Communication – A Necessity for Small and Midsize Companies
Financial disclosure and regular shareholder communication are requirements for large enterprises. The customary glossy annual reports and quarterly statements give the impression that such practices are reserved for capital corporations only. Small, and in particular medium-sized companies generally believe that … Continue reading
SME Access to Finance: Pepperdine, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Partner for Research
Pepperdine University’s Private Capital Markets Project and Graziadio School of Business and Management announced a national partnership with Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. to develop research on the national economy and private capital access for small- and medium-sized businesses. The … Continue reading
SME Access to Finance in the USA: Small Business Lending Fund Successful but Future Uncertain
The U.S. Treasury reported this week that the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) seems to have done its job. Institutions involved with the program significantly increased their lending to small businesses by $3.5 billion over a $35.9 billion baseline, which … Continue reading
India Government to Launch Online Business Portal
The government of India will launch an online platform in November this year in order to provide information about Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with the central aim of attracting foreign business partners. The National Small Industries Corporation … Continue reading
Alibaba’s survey finds Chinese SMEs struggling
Beijing, 27th July: According to a recent survey carried out by both Peking University and e-commerce company Alibaba Group, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are finding it difficult to obtain credit from banks in China. This difficulty is compounded by … Continue reading
Observations from the BIIA Forum 2011: Eliminating Information Asymmetries with Information Sharing
To provide further input to the open forum discussion the audience had the benefit to listen to William Lim, Executive Director of the Singapore Credit Bureau presenting two excellent role models, the SME credit bureaus of Malaysia and Singapore: In … Continue reading
Observations from the BIIA Forum 2011: The SME Dilemma – Lack of Access to Finance
The SME Dilemma: Eliminating Information Asymmetries – A Challenge and Opportunity for the Business Information Industry BIIA had invited Tony Lythgoe, from the IFC (World Bank Group) to provide an overview of the key findings from recent IFC work on … Continue reading