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| May 23, 2025 | 2025 Asia Grassroots Forum in Bali Draws Global Investor Interest in the Grassroots Economy | Robust attendance at the 2025 Asia Grassroots Forum in Bali on May 22, 2025 reflects growing global interest in impact investing in Asia, and highlights the potential of the grassroots economy.
BALI, Indonesia, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ... |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Gobi Partners Backs Funding Societies to Advance SME Financing and Fintech Innovation across Southeast Asia | Investment reinforces confidence in Funding Societies' decade-long mission amid market volatility and underscores commitment to financial inclusion for underserved businesses
SINGAPORE, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Funding Societies | Mod... |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Funding Societies secures investment from Cool Japan Fund | CJF's injection kicks off Funding Societies' 10th year track record in serving SMEs in Southeast Asia
Investment bridges gap for Southeast Asia's SMEs supporting Japanese companies' overseas expansion
SINGAPORE, Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -... |
| Nov 5, 2024 | Funding Societies secures third credit facility with HSBC to extend access to MSMEs in Southeast Asia | Part of HSBC's ASEAN Growth Fund, an accumulative commitment of over US$100 million to Funding Societies since its partnership established in 2022
SINGAPORE, Nov. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Funding Societies | Modalku (Funding Societies), the ... |
| Oct 4, 2024 | Kapitale lança fundo de R$ 50 milhões e oferece antecipação de recebíveis sem taxa para PMEs | A fintech Kapitale, especializada em soluções de crédito, anuncia um Fundo de Investimentos em Direitos Creditórios (FIDC) Kapi, com capital inicial de R$ 50 milhões, destinado a apoiar o financiamento de operações, especialmente nos segmen... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Mastercard Foundation and Kifiya Financial Technology PLC to Enable More Than 477,800 MSMEs to Access Uncollateralized Digital Credit Products | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — The Mastercard Foundation, in partnership with Kifiya Financial Technology PLC (Kifiya), announces a scale-up program designed to unlock resources from banks, innovate new financial models and products, and transitio... |
| Sep 9, 2023 | SME Finance Forum Gears up for Global SME Finance Forum 2023 in Mumbai, India between September 12-14, 2023 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
SME Finance Forum was established by G20 Global Partners for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) in 2012 as a knowledge center for data, research, and best practice in promoting SME finance.
This year the Global SME Financ... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | South African digital lender Lulalend to launch banking product off the back of $35M Series B | In most African countries, access to credit remains limited for many small businesses, with the reasons ranging from the inability to pay collateral and lack of credit history to unfavorable lending criteria and high-interest rates.
Banks a... |
| Oct 4, 2022 | How mentoring and supporting women in the workplace can help defeat “dinosaur-age” attitudes | Source: Getty Images.
Behind every well-paid man is a woman doing the same work, for less money. Despite a visible uptick in global feminism, the gender pay gap in Australia recently worsened to 14.1%, an increase of 0.3% over the last six ... |
| Sep 13, 2022 | Southeast Asian fintech Fazz raises $100M Series C to serve businesses of all sizes | Fazz, the Southeast Asian digital financial services group created by the merger of Payfazz and Xfers, announced today that it has raised a total of $100 million in Series C funding. This includes $75 million in equity and a $25 million deb... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | IFC Supports Garanti BBVA Leasing to Boost Financing for Small Businesses in Romania, Accelerate Recovery | Bucharest, Romania, August 3, 2021-Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Romania will improve their access to finance with a new investment that aims to support SMEs, including women entrepreneurs, that were impacted by the COVID-19 ... |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Africa Trust Group receives R4.2-million Shell Foundation grant | Cape Town-based Africa Trust Group (ATG) has announced the receipt of a R4.2-million grant from the Shell Foundation.
The foundation, founded by Shell in 2000 and based in the UK, helps create and scale business solutions to enhance access... |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Africa Trust Group receives R4.2-million Shell Foundation grant | Cape Town-based Africa Trust Group (ATG) has announced the receipt of a R4.2-million grant from the Shell Foundation.
The foundation, founded by Shell in 2000 and based in the UK, helps create and scale business solutions to enhance access ... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Asia: P2P Lending Investment Outlook for HNWIs and Institutional Investors | The ASEAN economy is expected to become the fourth-largest economy in the world by 2030, growing at a pace of over 5% per year. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the biggest contributors to this regional growth — they account for betw... |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Wave Out, OZÉ In: How a Ghana-based fintech wants to change SME financing | Small and medium businesses across Africa often have a hard time getting loans; OZÉ, a Ghana-based fintech startup, wants to change that.
In Nigeria, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for 96% of businesses and 84% of employment. T... |
| May 2, 2020 | COVID-19 Solidarity: How Fintechs Are Offering Support to Other Fintechs in Asia | The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting businesses of all sizes and in all industries. Around the world, fintechs are showing solidarity by deploying resources to help their community navigate the storm.
Today, we look at some of the initiatives... |
| Mar 30, 2020 | How Fintechs Can Build Trust with SMEs in Latin America | Small businesses in emerging economies are notoriously underfinanced. Despite making up over 99.5% of the economy in Latin America, SMEs face a financing gap in the trillions of dollars. For example, up to 78% of small businesses in Argenti... |
| Jan 6, 2020 | Here are 10 African startups to watch in 2020 | Wondering what 2020 has in store for Africa’s tech startup scene?
If you’re looking to keep tabs on the movers and shakers that will define this year then join us as we look at the 10 startups that you should consider paying attention to in... |
| Jan 6, 2020 | Here are 10 African startups to watch in 2020 | Wondering what 2020 has in store for Africa’s tech startup scene?
If you’re looking to keep tabs on the movers and shakers that will define this year then join us as we look at the 10 startups that you should consider paying attention to i... |
| Dec 23, 2019 | African tech startups netted over $6m in collective prize money in 2019 [List] | African tech startups this year tapped millions of dollars by taking part in and winning startup competitions — at least over $6-million collectively, by Ventureburn’s calculations.
The biggest cash prize went to South African insurtech st... |
| Dec 23, 2019 | African tech startups netted over $6m in collective prize money in 2019 [List] | African tech startups this year tapped millions of dollars by taking part in and winning startup competitions — at least over $6-million collectively, by Ventureburn’s calculations.
The biggest cash prize went to South African insurtech sta... |
| Nov 8, 2019 | A look at the nonbank and alternative lending industry in 2019
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| Oct 14, 2019 | Two African Startups Recognized at the Global SME Finance Forum Awards | Two African Fintech startups have been recognized for their innovative stride in the financial sector by the International Finance Corporation IFC. The award was given to the duo during the just-concluded Global SME Finance Forums Award in ... |
| Oct 10, 2019 | SA’s JUMO, Retail Capital, Mauritius-based 4G Capital honoured at Global SME Finance Forum Awards [Updated] | UPDATE (16 October): We forgot to include another African company, SA fintech Retail Capital, which was placed second in the for its innovation in funding small businesses. The story has been updated to reflect this.
SA fintech startup JUMO... |
| Oct 10, 2019 | SA’s JUMO, Retail Capital, Mauritius-based 4G Capital honoured at Global SME Finance Forum Awards [Updated] | UPDATE (16 October): We forgot to include another African company, SA fintech Retail Capital, which was placed second in the for its innovation in funding small businesses. The story has been updated to reflect this.
SA fintech startup JUM... |
| Oct 10, 2019 | A look at the nonbank and alternative lending industry in 2019
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| Oct 3, 2019 | A look at the nonbank and alternative lending industry in 2019
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| Sep 19, 2019 | A look at the nonbank and alternative lending industry in 2019
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| Sep 12, 2019 | A look at the nonbank and alternative lending industry in 2019
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| Sep 5, 2019 | A look at the nonbank and alternative lending industry in 2019
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| Jun 26, 2019 | South African SME finance startup Lulalend raises $6.5M Series A | South African digital lender Lulalend has raised a $6.5 million Series A round co-led by IFC and Quona Capital.
The Cape Town based startup uses an online application process and internal credit metrics to provide short-term loans to small ... |
| May 31, 2016 | Василий Высоков (банк «Центр-инвест»): «Юг — это модель будущей экономики России» | «Отсутствие стратегии ведет к уходу с рынка» — Василий Васильевич, какова сейчас ситуация на банковском рынке Юга России, его особенности и проблемы?
— По уровню услуг в расчете на душу населения банковская система Юга России отстает от сре... |
| Retail Capital, part of Apis Portfolio Company CATS was awarded Silver for Product Innovation of the Year by the Global SME Finance Awards | We are extremely proud to announce that Retail Capital was awarded Silver for Product Innovation of the Year by the Global SME Finance Awards. They were selected from a competitive pool of 144 applicants, organised by IFC, a member of the W... |
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| Инвестиции в стартапы без венчурных инвесторов: как устроен рынок краудинвестинга | Поднять инвестиции в стартап можно не только у бизнес-ангелов и венчурных инвесторов: во многих странах мира давно и успешно работает краудинвестинг, или краудфандинг акционерного капитала (equity crowdfunding). Совсем как кикстартер, тольк... |
| Two African Startups Recognized at the Global SME Finance Forum Awards | Two African Fintech startups have been recognized for their innovative stride in the financial sector by the International Finance Corporation IFC. The award was given to the duo during the just-concluded Global SME Finance Forums Award in ... |
