access to finance remains a key constraint to SME. In the light of the new understanding of the SME finance challenges that … order to achieve a global scale-up of SME access to financial services in the developing world. The G-20 FIEG SME Finance … Sub-Group executed a global SME Finance stocktaking exercise with various SME finance models to establish best practices …

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 …

policy action might help reduce the cost of providing financing, especially long-term lending. "--World Bank web site …

"The author tests the hypothesis that during systemic banking crises, access to finance is opportunistically tightened … techniques. "--World Bank web site …

the bank credit crunch. The results are consistent with the "redistribution view" of trade credit provision, in which bank …"The authors study the effect of financial crises on trade credit in a sample of 890 firms in six emerging economies …. They find that although provision of trade credit increases right after the crisis, it consequently collapses in the …

access to credit"--World Bank web site …"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important … aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending …

. One of the lessons of the last few years is that banks will expand SME lending on their own accord - in spite of the …

This report presents findings of a study of Bank lending to small and medium enterprises (SME) in Serbia. The study …; business credit cards; various types of payment services; Internet and phone banking. The report is organized as follows … uses methodology developed by the Bank and already used in a number of studies in South America. The study is based on …