. Access to finance remains a key constraint to SME development in emerging economies. Closing the credit gap for formal SMEs … will be less daunting than for informal SMEs. The SME finance gap is the result of a mismatch between the needs of the … enabling environment and residual market failures have motivated government interventions to foster SME access to financing …

frictions that SMEs face to access finance. Section three explores how digitization is an enabler for SME finance and how … digitization of business processes, which contribute to addressing the barriers and frictions to SME access to finance, are also …

institutions in their respective markets have participated in the survey, including 25 SME focused banks and 2 microfinance … risk taken by SME focused banks. The report aims to help emerging market financial institutions that participated in the …

companies and multiple countries. Through its eight performance standards on E and S sustainability, the International Finance …