Online demand from small business a challenge for insurers
May 4th, 2018 – More South African small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are embracing e-commerce, with 34% indicating that they would prefer to buy their business insurance online, according to a study by PwC. The survey shows how the insurance market...
European Investment Fund and UniCredit support innovative SMEs in CEE with EUR 500 mln
May 7th, 2018 – The European Investment Fund (EIF) and UniCredit have signed a contract to expand the InnovFin guarantee for SMEs, in order to increase access to financing for innovative small and medium-sized firms and mid-caps in eight countries i...
PE investment into European companies hits ten-year high
May 2th, 2018 – Private equity investment in European companies hit a ten-year high in 2017 at €71.7bn, a 29% YoY increase, according to new data released today by Invest Europe. Almost 7,000 companies received investment, of which 87% were SMEs. ...
A Strong Foundation for Greater Impact
April 21th, 2018 – Despite expectations that growth will be robust in the near term, developing countries face challenges to keep up the pace of progress and ensure inclusive, sustainable growth amid structural changes to the global economy. The Wor...
New platform opens for West African entrepreneurs
April 22th, 2018 – SuguLab, a complementary entrepreneurial service that will be offered to start-ups and Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) operating in West Africa, particularly Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and Sénégal, has officially been launch...
How can SMEs use videos and Whatsapp to communicate faster and grow their business
April 23th, 2018 – Video is the future. The web is transitioning from text to image to video. This transition is possibly the most noticeable one on the web because the human brain is evolving to process more experiential information. Video is a pow...
Why SMEs need cyber security protection just as much as enterprise
April 16th, 2018 – Smaller businesses need more funding to bolster cyber security defence – here is why. It’s no secret that cyber criminals like to try out their latest tricks on big businesses, with high-profile enterprises falling foul of...
Online small business lending growing fast
April 17th, 2018 – The online small business lending market in Australia is growing at a faster rate than the US market did at a similar stage of development, the CEO of OnDeck Global has said. Speaking at the AltFi Australasian Summit in Sydney, CE...
Fund for African Private Sector Assistance Approves Three Projects to Spur SME Development in Africa
April 6th, 2018 – Donors to the Fund for African Private Sector Assistance (FAPA) – consisting of the African Development Bank, the Government of Japan and the Government of Austria – have approved three catalytic projects totaling US $2...
EU launches €410m venture capital fund for start-ups and SMEs
April 10th, 2018 – EU funding of € 410 million will be used to launch a new European venture capital initiative to help bridge the EU and the US, the European Commission announced. The Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) announced th...
