{"id":13306,"date":"2019-07-16T08:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13306"},"modified":"2019-07-16T08:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:30:59","slug":"q-lana-a-new-tool-to-bolster-msmes-in-emerging-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/q-lana-a-new-tool-to-bolster-msmes-in-emerging-economies\/","title":{"rendered":"Q-Lana: a new tool to bolster MSMEs in emerging economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Q-Lana, a U.S.-based FinTech company, was founded to develop the concept of knowledge-based lending as a way to help financial institutions overcome the challenges associated with broader MSME lending and, thereby, spur economic development. Q-Lana is an integrated platform that offers fully-digitized operations and allows other providers to connect to it. Moreover, it\u2019s implementation is paired with consulting services in order to facilitate important steps along the digitization path. Q-Lana\u2019s founders hope that Q-Lana will become a powerful tool to help emerging economies continue their development. 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Q-Lana is an integrated platform that offers fully-digitized operations and allows other providers to connect to it. Moreover, it\u2019s implementation is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,79],"tags":[196,81,141,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13307,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions\/13307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}