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D&B Launches Small Business Health Index

by Joachim Bartels | Jun 18, 2013 | Business Information, Credit Information, Dun & Bradstreet, Indices, Information Solutions for SMEs, Member, Member News, SME Access to Finance Issue, Uncategorized, United States | 0 |

Small Business Health Index Offers Perspectives on Small Business Success in Recognition of...

SME Access to Credit: Finding new Opportunities in Australia’s most Dynamic Credit Market

by Joachim Bartels | Mar 13, 2012 | Australia, Business Information, Credit Information, Dun & Bradstreet, Dun & Bradstreet Australia, Member, Member News, SME Access to Finance Issue | 0 |

D&B Australia has published a whitepaper which examines the challenge of information asymmetries in small business credit. In particular it: Identifies the unique characteristics of a small business and provides a workable...

Financial Disclosure or Communication – A Necessity for Small and Midsize Companies

by Joachim Bartels | Feb 13, 2012 | Commercial Credit Reporting, Creditreform, Germany, Member News, Regulatory News, SME Access to Finance Issue, Transparency, Uncategorized | 0 |

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...

SME Access to Finance: Pepperdine, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Partner for Research

by Joachim Bartels | Jan 17, 2012 | Advisory & Research Services, D&B Creditbility Corporation, Market Research, SME Access to Finance Issue, United States | 0 |

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...

Observations from the BIIA Forum 2011: Eliminating Asymmetries in Information through SME Ratings

by Joachim Bartels | May 15, 2011 | BIIA News, Credit Information, India, Information Solutions for SMEs, Rating Services, SME Access to Finance Issue, SMERA | 0 |

Parag Patki, Managing Director of SMERA offered a different approach. SMERA was initially set up as a rating agency to provide non-regulatory ratings on SMEs. In the meantime SMERA is registered under the Securities and...