Africa: Expanding access to trade finance is necessary for SMEs
November 29th, 2021 – When it comes to enhancing access to trade finance for African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), current challenges call for innovative solutions. The African continent represents a market of approximately 1.2 billion ...
5 Ways In Which SMEs Can Unlock Growth In A Post-Covid World
November 22th, 2021 – Small businesses have been scrambling over the past 18 months to adjust to a fast-changing landscape transformed by a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. We have already seen how the fallout from Covid-19 has dramatically accelerated tr...
Cybersecurity is still challenging for ASEAN businesses
November 29th, 2021 – ASEAN businesses are still challenged by cybersecurity problems, especially with the data protection landscape in the region fast changing. With recent media reports of cyber attacks targeting regional entities, it is clear tha...
Africa Industrialization Week 2021 at UNIDO
A series of webinars on themes such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, climate-related challenges in industrialization, and opportunities for Japanese and other international investors on the African continent, marked the beginning of Africa Industriali...
Cop26: sustainability measurement and investment platform launched
November 10th, 2021 – A new digital platform that aims to streamline end-to-end sustainable finance lifecycle making it easier, cheaper, and more transparent for both issuers and investors has been launched at Cop26. The main goal of the Evercity pl...
COP26: The World Is Watching
GLASGOW – October 31th, 2021 – In 2015, the world came together in Paris to tackle climate change. Six years later, COP26 in Glasgow will aim to deliver on the promises of the Paris Agreement. World leaders and national delegations, representa...
The EU wants business to be sustainable. But it must empower companies to do that
October 26th, 2021 – Since its inception, the EU has been confronted with numerous crises and debates on how to advance a plan for a united and peaceful post-war Europe. In essence, what began as an imperfect economic union with the ultimate ambitio...
East Africa: Mansa Digital Platform to Boost SMEs in EAC
October 20th, 2021 – Mansa digital platform will enable companies and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to trade confidently across Africa. This will cut down the transaction cost of trading under the African Continental Free Trading Area (AfCFTA)...
PayPal wants to help SMEs future proof their digital business
October 25th, 2021 – PayPal has been enabling business payments around the world for years. Despite the rise of new payment methods, PayPal feels they still have an important role to play in helping businesses achieve the best outcomes. In Asia, the...
Digital Platforms: Recovery Tool for SMEs in the Asia Pacific
October 1th, 2021 – While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt businesses worldwide, the importance of staying connected becomes all the more apparent for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the Asia Pacific region. When post-pand...
