Platform to give SMEs a boost in intra-Africa trade
January 21th, 2021 – Small and medium enterprises eyeing a slice of intra-Africa trade will now have a platform to ease transactions. The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) app will enable the SMEs to sell and buy goods via a cashless and c...
Zoho and Mastercard Partner to Support Local SMEs to access new technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean
February 4th, 2020 – Zoho Corp., a global technology company, announced its strategic alliance with Mastercard, a multinational payment technology company, joining its digital acceleration platform, Digital Allies (Aliados Digitales), while promotin...
Small business sustainability in a COVID-19 world: Australia Post and Banksia Foundation
February 1th, 2021 – New research by Australia Post and the Banksia Foundation looks at key issues that SMEs are facing when it comes to small business sustainability in a post-COVID world. The study shows that almost half of SMEs in Australia, whic...
We’re witnessing a global surge in innovation. This is how we sustain it
January 21th, 2021 – From a foot-operated handwashing machine invented by a nine-year old boy in Kenya, to a new “sky park” opened in Bangkok on an disused railway line that could serve as a model for greening abandoned spaces, to the ro...
Mastercard launches one-stop resource site for SMEs in Asia Pacific
January 18th, 2021 – Global payments technology company Mastercard has launched the Digital Acceleration for Small Businesses microsite across most of its Asia Pacific websites to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) recover from the COVID-19 pa...
SMEs key to Europe’s decarbonisation efforts
January 18th, 2021 – The Horizon 2020 funded project, LEAP4SME-Energy audit policies to drive energy efficiency-aims to enhance effective policies for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to undergo energy audits and implement cost-effective, r...
World Bank Plans to Invest over $5 Billion in Drylands in Africa
PARIS/WASHINGTON, January 11h, 2021 – The World Bank plans to invest over $5 billion over the next five years to help restore degraded landscapes, improve agriculture productivity, and promote livelihoods across 11 African countries on a swathe of l...
Blockchain Trends 2021: A road to recovery anchored by trust
January 8th, 2021 – The Covid-19 pandemic has completely transformed the way we live, work, and interact with one another. Across the globe, more and more day-to-day activities are taking place online, further accelerating the digitalisation of all ...
COVID-19 pandemic: SMEs in Africa
Survey reveals 95 percent of African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) did not receive government aid during COVID-19 pandemic December 9th, 2020 – Following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration of the COVID-19 outbreak a glob...
COVID-19 could spark longer-term pivot on credit risk
December 18th, 2020 – The impact of COVID-19 forced Latin American banks to take huge provisions to absorb credit losses that could take months to materialize. But the pandemic also may lead some banks to shift their lending strategies for years to ...
