South Africa’s biggest Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (SMME) financing challenge may not be a shortage of capital. It may ...

South Africa has an anaemic medium-sized business sector, with some of these businesses closing and fewer small businesses growing into medium-sized enterprises than medium-sized enterprises growing ...

The bank had loaned out $300 million to women-led business as at the end of 2024, and indicated that it intended to more than triple its portfolio by ...

The move to establish SA Eximbank comes as South Africa is undergoing the most fundamental reforms to the logistics sector in ...

However, industry experts said high interest rates continue to temper borrowing demand especially among smaller corporates. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria show that private sector credit rose 4 ...

Now that Bank Zero has reached the coveted break-even milestone and proved that its model is profitable, the bank’s founders ...

South Africa’s small businesses face major financing and formalisation challenges. Mastercard argues that digital acceptance, ...

Digital payment acceptance is changing what’s possible for small businesses. Coupled with access to tailored financial ...

South Africa told the Paris Club that it won’t seek full membership of the group of mostly rich-nation creditors, as it focuses on its involvement in a United Nations-backed coalition of borrower ...

Financial exclusion is leaving millions of South Africans vulnerable to illegal lenders who operate beyond the protections of ...

Every rand channelled into development finance carries an expectation that it will translate into something tangible in the economy, and much of the outcome rests on the quality of the institution ...