This paper studies the factors banks perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing small and medium enterprises (SMEs … business, SMEs have become a strategic segment for most banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs … due to the significant competition in the corporate and retail sectors. They perceive the SMEs market as highly profitable …

medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by banks in Colombia. The paper is motivated by the well-documented financing gap for SMEs … recent years. Bank financing to SMEs is becoming a strategic segment for Colombian credit institutions. The current business …

enterprises (SMEs) around the world. They find that banks perceive the SME segment to be highly profitable, but perceive … macroeconomic instability in developing countries and competition in developed countries as the main obstacles. To serve SMEs banks … there are some differences in SMEs financing across government, private, and foreign-owned banks - with the latter being …

SMEs seem to be very active in creating jobs in recent years. This suggests that a new type of firm is emerging that is …

-size enterprises (SMEs). What is unique about factoring is that the credit provided by a lender is explicitly linked to the value of a …

enterprises (SMEs). In this framework, lending technologies are the key conduit through which government policies and national … a homogeneous group, unsuitable for serving informationally opaque SMEs, and a frequent misleading conclusion is that … large institutions are disadvantaged in lending to opaque SMEs. …