Bank of China Issues $2.8B in Blockchain-Based Bonds
December 8th, 2019 – One of the four major commercial banks in China, Bank of China, announced in a statement on Friday that it has released 20 billion Yuan in blockchain-based bonds for small businesses that own blockchain platforms. The Beijing-ba...
EY links with Australian start-up, creating blockchain solutions for SMEs
November 11th, 2019 – Professional services firm (EY) has provided software and services support through its OpsChain Tesseract platform, to Block2, an Australian automotive industry peer-to-peer (P2P) resource management start-up. The product of th...
FinDev Canada Invests in Gender-lens Fund to Bolster Women-owned SMEs in Africa
Johannesburg (SOUTH AFRICA)- November 12th, 2019 – FinDev Canada has announced an investment of $7.5 million to Alitheia IDF, a fund supporting women-owned and led businesses, to boost women’s economic empowerment and access to finance in Sub-...
Supporting Countries to Act on Climate
December 1th, 2019 – Four years on from the signing of the Paris Agreement, representatives from over 200 countries will gather in Madrid, Spain, to kick-start the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...
World Autonomous Data Platform Market Outlook, 2024 – Growing Demand from SMEs & Increasing Adoption of Cloud Technology Presents Lucrative Opportunities
November 8th, 2019 – The “Autonomous Data Platform Market by Component (Platform and Services), Organization Size (Large Enterprises and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises), Deployment Type (On-Premises and Cloud), Vertical, and Region –...
Blockchain Potential and Challenges as seen by the EU
November 8th, 2019 – Blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrency is getting more and more attention from states and companies trying to use the system to serve a larger variety of causes. Blockchains offer the service of moving value from one p...
Technology Makes It Easier for SMEs to Do Business in Africa
November 19th, 2019 – The 2020 World Bank Doing Business report was recently released, and shows the overall business climate in sub-Saharan Africa is steadily improving. Looking at the ease of starting and maintaining a business, the region as a wh...
Alipay target: Serve 10m European SMEs by 2024
November 14th, 2019 – Alipay has set a target of supporting 10 million small to medium sized businesses in Europe over the next five years with new payment innovations and partner programmes. Expanding its existing partnership with Worldline, Alipay...
Can fintech companies provide SMEs with new financing options?
November 6th, 2019 – Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) drive the ASEAN region. According to various estimates, 98 percent of businesses in the region are SMEs and contribute to around 40 percent of the ASEAN’s gross domestic product. Globally...
European patents help SMEs commercialise high-potential inventions, new study shows
November 4th, 2019 – A new study published by the European Patent Office (EPO) finds that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) rely on European patents to protect their high-potential inventions and that two thirds of these inventions are commerciall...
