It is well recognized that relationship banking helps to relieve the credit constraints faced by SMEs to access bank … means different things to different banksand different borrowers. How trust enablesthe credit market for SMEs through …-basedrelationship banking helpedto reduce the credit constraints faced by SMEs in the decade following the global financial crisis. …

medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China. Our research contributes to the literature in several ways. First, we examine both … the financial costs and loan benefits associated with SME relationship banking, extending the scope of existing literature … constraints, drawn from a recent survey on SMEs in China. Our findings are twofold. On one hand, bank relationship spending …

This study delves into the impact of technological bank innovations on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME …) borrowing across the European Union. By analyzing a comprehensive dataset of 179,921 SME-bank lending relationships from 2009 to …. Our empirical analysis documents that banks' technological innovations have a more substantial impact on SMEs' long …

-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Asia. Owing to their significance to national economies, it is important to find ways to provide SMEs with … stable finance. One efficient way to promote SME financing is through credit guarantee schemes, where the government … guarantees a portion (ratio) of a loan provided by a bank to an SME. This research provides a theoretical model and an empirical …

Almost all formal small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Jamaica have access to checking or saving accounts, but the … financial sector is scarcely used to finance their investments. The lack of funding for the SME sector, or its high cost, has a …

Microcredit and small and medium enterprise (SME) finance are often pitched as alternative strategies to create … integrate evidence from three surveys in Bangladesh to show that, compared to microcredit customers, typical SME employees in … less poor. SME jobs also require long work weeks, clashing with family responsibilities. The evidence from Bangladesh …

SME finance is the funding of small and medium-sized enterprises, and represents a major function of the general … strengthening SME financing in India important to reduce debt gap, what are the Alternate lending platforms for fixing India …'s financial inclusion problem, becoming enablers for SME funding and the various challenges faced, alternate lending platforms to …