Africa’s MSME financing gap stands at an estimated $331bn. To better serve a segment that constitutes over 90% of businesses across the continent, some banks are developing ecosystems that combine ...

Cashflow-based lending is gaining traction across Africa as a viable means through which historically underbanked MSMEs can access credit.

The bank was prominent in several of the region’s largest sustainable finance transactions. Bank of China (Hong Kong) helped arrange MTR Corporation’s HKD30 billion seven-year green syndicated loan, ...

The 2025 Euromoney Cash Management Survey draws on 26,089 respondents across 139 countries and territories, spanning companies of all sizes and assessing 473 distinct cash-management providers.

In 2025, NCB strengthened its SME proposition in the GBA, enhancing its Go Global framework as SMEs confronted tariff uncertainty and looked for new markets. This resulted in a 42% year-on-year growth ...

CICC supported offshore RMB bond issuances by the governments of Guangdong and Shenzhen, as well as green and infrastructure bonds from the Hong Kong government. It also helped Guangzhou Water ...

China Merchants Bank and CMB Wing Lung Bank introduced an end-to-end digital account-opening service for the southbound scheme in February 2025, allowing eligible mainland investors to complete ...

As payments become real-time, data-rich and programmable, treasurers must decide where modernisation can deliver the greatest commercial value, without compromising control. Redefining treasury is not ...

HSBC’s regional scale and international connectivity set it apart in 2025. It combined a leading mainland China franchise with the largest foreign-bank branch network in Guangdong, where two-thirds ...

For LY iTech, DBS combined RMB letters of credit issued in Hong Kong with discounting in mainland China, helping the technology manufacturer benefit from lower RMB financing costs while retaining ...

Across much of the Caribbean, small businesses still struggle to secure finance. In the Dominican Republic, Banreservas has answered that challenge by building an SME model that reaches far beyond ...