ESA SME initiative news
May 21th, 2018 – Programmes and initiatives within ESA that could be of particular interest to SMEs are listed below. ESA programmes and initiatives – Program rement actions reserved for SME and “Non-Primes” (C1-C4 clauses) –...
European Investment Bank To Support New Funds for SMEs And Female Entrepreneurs
May 9th, 2018 – The European Investment Bank has announced this week that it will be working alongside CaixaBank to invest over 250 million euros into new SMEs across Europe. The joint initiative will be specifically placing focus on startups and pr...
UBA Partners MasterCard to Ease Payments by SMEs
May 8th, 2018 – The pan-African financial services institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA), in partnership with MasterCard International has released a revolutionary solution to one of the critical challenges being faced by small and medium scale ...
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...
