Almost half of Asia Pacific prefers digital payments
February 11th, 2021 – From the light tap of a contactless card to the convenience of online payments, the switch to cash-free consumerism has surged over the last decade. Currently, the Asia Pacific, which holds an online population of 1.8 billion, ...
Circular economy: New coalition launched for Latin America and the Caribbean
February 9th, 2021 – A new coalition to support Latin America and the Caribbean in the transition towards a circular economy as part of the COVID-19 recovery has been launched. The Regional Coalition on Circular Economy will support access to financ...
Investment for women-led businesses is missing ingredient African entrepreneurship
February 19th, 2021 – Women make up 58% of African’s self-employed population, yet there are still significant imbalances between opportunities to scale, access to funding and training between men and women-led businesses on the continent. There i...
Unified communications tech now a must-have for SMEs
February 11th, 2021 – Large companies showed an increase of nearly 40% in unified communications adoption over the previous year, driven by the remote working surge during the pandemic. Embracing unified communications technology was always a busine...
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...
