{"id":16196,"date":"2021-07-27T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=16196"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:18:38","slug":"competition-to-serve-smes-financial-needs-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/competition-to-serve-smes-financial-needs-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition to Serve SMEs\u2019 Financial Needs Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competition to serve the financial needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is growing, resulting in a variety of products designed to make business easier for SMEs. This includes specialized one-stop-shop platforms that stitch together an ecosystem of specialist providers. Both neobanks and incumbent financial institutions are making great progress in their SME offering, although incumbent financial institutions are struggling more with finding profits with these solutions. Neobanks tend not to struggle with this as much due to their typical focus on smaller firms with simpler needs and their greater overall cost efficiency. Going forward, it will be important for any financial institution working with SMEs to develop smart solutions for SMEs today that will also solve their anticipated problems of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-16196 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Banking for Modern Couples'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/banking-for-modern-couples\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/77b23e65-890f-420e-940b-a7cea2a2998f1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15874\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15874'>\n\t\t\t\tBanking for Modern Couples\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Financial Services Industry Struggling with Rapid Rate of Digital Transformation'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/financial-services-industry-struggling-with-rapid-rate-of-digital-transformation\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/38639d0a-0572-e312-35fc-1cc9f10603a31-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-16550\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-16550'>\n\t\t\t\tFinancial Services Industry Struggling with Rapid Rate of Digital Transformation\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Low uptake of email authentication by financial institutions'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/low-uptake-of-email-authentication-by-financial-institutions\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/low-uptake-of-email-authentication-by-financial-institutions-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11226\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11226'>\n\t\t\t\tLow uptake of email authentication by financial institutions\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition to serve the financial needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is growing, resulting in a variety of products designed to make business easier for SMEs. This includes specialized one-stop-shop platforms that stitch together an ecosystem of specialist providers. Both neobanks and incumbent financial institutions are making great progress in their SME offering, although &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16196"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16199,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16196\/revisions\/16199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}