SME News
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2022-10-20
SMEs are set to suffer most in winter of insolvencies
There is no escaping the seemingly never-ending doom spiral of news at the moment. Inflation is back at a 40-year high, interest rates are set to balloon and barely believable scenes are unfolding daily at Westminster as the government stumbles fr...
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2022-10-20
Sustainability not a priority for UK SMEs when choosing an insurance policy
While an insurer’s record on sustainability is considered to be a factor for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, it is outweighed by many other issues for them when choosing a policy, according to analytics company Gl...
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2022-10-19
SMEs invest in energy saving skills to cut costs
Small firms are training staff to be more energy efficient and up to speed with government regulations in a bid to beat the rising cost of doing business. Over half of SMEs (53%) have either started training staff in energy efficiency or plan to d...
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2022-10-18
Vietnamese factories go idle as orders from West slow
HO CHI MINH CITY: Now is usually the period when Phan Ngoc Anh gets some early holiday cheer as her sector, Vietnam’s garment industry, fields shiploads of US and European orders ahead of Christmas. But not this year. Perennial demand before...
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2022-10-18
DBS launches AI-driven working capital solution for SMEs
SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can now get access to up to S$300,000 of working capital through DBS’ new artificial intelligence (AI) driven solution, which was launched on Tuesday (Oct 18). The bank has rolled out DBS Quick ...