SME News
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2021-12-01
Mastercard and Meta join forces to support the digitisation and growth of SMEs
Mastercard is collaborating with Meta to support the digitisation and growth of SMEs across the MEA region by organising a training webinar that will provide SMEs insights from industry experts, and a masterclass on how to manage uncertainty from ren...
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2021-12-01
Singapore Issues New Supply Chain Initiative to Help SMEs
Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced the launch of an S$18 million (US$13.1 million) Supply Chain 4.0 Initiative at the Industrial Transformation Asia-Pacific (ITAP) 2021 event. The initiative aims to integrate more tec...
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2021-11-30
Over 78,000 companies on board SMEs Go Digital drive; more than half joined in 2020
SINGAPORE - The national SMEs Go Digital programme, which encourages companies here to digitalise, has attracted more than 78,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) since its 2017 launch, with more than half, or 40,000, coming on board in 2020...
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2021-11-29
Classification of SMEs needed for proper financing, say experts
In Bangladesh, around 83% of the economic enterprises are cottage and micro in nature, and as of June 2020, SMEs contributed to around 27% of the GDP, says a report Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) require proper classification in order to secu...
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2021-11-29
Africa: Expanding access to trade finance is necessary for SMEs
The African continent represents a market of approximately 1.2 billion people – most of whom are under the age of 30 – and a collective GDP of $2.5trn, but currently accounts for a small portion of global trade (2%). Intra-Africa trade is...