Deepa Jivan, CEO of J.Gordhan & Co, says bank’s tailored financial solutions and expertise give it the agility to navigate global marketplace.

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.

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The application is set to enhance Virgin’s M-account, targeted at SMEs ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on its consistent excellence and deep commitment to the SME ecosystem, Hong Leong Bank ("HLB" or "the Bank") has been named the Best SME ...

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 ...

Most new challengers are attacking retail, but a few ingenious startups are moving into the more fragmented and poorly served small business market. It is here that concepts of open banking and ...

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 ...

A Finnish small business with roughly €5,000 in monthly turnover applied for funding expecting a routine decision.

Flagright, the AI-native, no-code platform for transaction monitoring and AML compliance, is pleased to welcome SME Bank as its newest client. Following a successful evaluation of Flagright’s platform ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — DAP’s Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng today urged SME Bank to restore public confidence after ...

Lack of access to finance has typically been the key challenge facing African SMEs. However, limited access to markets is emerging as a much bigger problem. For a majority, operations are constrained ...