During the first decade of this century, from 2001 to 2010, attention focused on the development of the credit … become an imperative. The overall credit information system in the region requires reform at the initiative of stakeholders … to undertake innovative changes in the methods of risk evaluation being used by the credit industry. IFC and AMF …

The objective of the Customer Management in Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Banking Guide is to share and disseminate … critical information for managing the SME client relationship, allowing banks that already serve the SME sector to move beyond … lending to better capture the SME Banking opportunity. This Guide leverages IFC s SME Banking Diagnostic framework used to …

frictions that SMEs face to access finance. Section three explores how digitization is an enabler for SME finance and how … different fintech solutions address these barriers. The fintech solutions analyzed include digital credit, asset-based lending …, and equity products. Also examined are innovative products such as digital payments, credit risk assessment using …

these small businesses and entrepreneurs, who instead rely on informal, unregulated, and unpredictable credit in order to … supporting the development of a modern credit reporting system in Nigeria. This new financial infrastructure will allow for …

electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts …

institution-building support via specialized regional small and medium enterprise (SME) development facilities. This evaluation …