{"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='Video: Ethereal Virtual Summit 2020 discussion on central bank digital currencies'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/video-ethereal-virtual-summit-2020-discussion-on-central-bank-digital-currencies\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Talking-CBDCs-Central-Bank-Digital-Currencies-in-the-Age-of-COVID19-Ethereal-Virtual-Summit-2020-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15402\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15402'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo: Ethereal Virtual Summit 2020 discussion on central bank digital currencies\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='FinTechHub created to train Russian youth in digital technologies'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintechhub-created-to-train-russian-youth-in-digital-technologies\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fintechhub-created-to-train-russian-youth-in-digital-technologies-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12416\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12416'>\n\t\t\t\tFinTechHub created to train Russian youth in digital technologies\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BigTechs threaten financial stability'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bigtechs-threaten-financial-stability\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bigtechs-threaten-financial-stability-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-13482\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-13482'>\n\t\t\t\tBigTechs threaten financial stability\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}]}}