What makes SME lending so hot these days? There is a lot of rumour around the prospective growth of the global SME lending market. It represents 90% of businesses and 50% of employment worldwide.

SMEs are significant drivers of job creation and economic growth. Yet, unlike in the developed world, where they are treated as the goose that lays the golden egg, it is survival of the fittest in ...

Perhaps the most important segmentation of banking services is between microbusinesses and the wider small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) population. In most developed economies, the vast majority ...

Smaller enterprises look to boost value-added per worker. Global Finance names the winners of its fifth annual World’s Best SME Banks. When it comes to productivity, bigger is usually better. Small ...

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Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) is expected to keep the overnight policy rate (OPR) at 2.75 per cent throughout 2026, while gross ...

Back in 2016, as part of Euromoney’s annual Awards for Excellence, we issued our first awards to banks serving up the best product offering to small- and medium-sized enterprises. Singapore’s OCBC was ...

Under the agreement, SMEs will be able to access a wide range of government services through Sanad offices located across all ...

Bank Asia PLC, in association with Bangladesh Bank, has organized a month-long ‘Entrepreneurship Development Program’ for SME ...

First City Monument Bank has been named Nigeria’s Best SME Focused Bank for 2025 by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. The recognition comes on the back of FCMB’s leading 24 per cent share ...

FirstBank has revealed its preparedness to disburse over N1trillion in funding to drive the growth of small and medium-scale enterprises in Nigeria this year. This was disclosed at the SME Scale Up ...

Addressing this challenge was the focus of the 2025 Mini-MBA Programme, delivered through a partnership between MTN Ghana, Absa Bank Ghana and NOVA School Africa.