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This site provides you with information on the Total Cost of Credit (TCC) and features a simple Cost of Credit calculator, which you can use to estimate the total cost of a bank loan.

Find out which online payment solution is suitable for your business depending on your location and sales channel.

Inuka Enterprise Program aims to empower micro enterprises to formalise, small enterprises to professionalise their management and medium enterprises to optimise operations and increase their economic productivity. This initiative is proudly sponsored by the Kenya Bankers Association with the objective of enhancing MSMEs ability to access finance from banks

3.1: Community financing providers of low-value financing.

3.2: Short-term equipment, pre-shipment, sales order or working capital financing.

3.3: Term loans through banks and non-bank financing providers.

3.4: Bank and non-bank short-term supply chain financing options.

3.5: Key enterprise loan regulatory considerations for banks.

3.6: What is “Collateral” and what are its implications for your business?

3.7: Asset valuation: enterprise and lender perspective.

3.8: What are “Covenants” and how do they affect your business?

All financing providers, financing transactions operators and investors are required to collect at a minimum the following set of basic information on applicants for, or beneficiaries of, financing of more than Euro/USD 2,500 in any one year.

This new microlearning platform offers very short courses on trade and trade-related topics, specifically tailored for learners in developing and least-developed countries. It has been set up by the SME Trade Academy of the ITC, a joint agency of the United Nations and the WTO.

This paper offers insights to policymakers and entrepreneurs alike. Based on data and analysis available in ITC’s ‘Africa Marketplace Explorer’, an online analytical tool available to all, the research is supplemented by data on Africa’s e-commerce ecosystem and case studies of the largest African marketplaces.

Market facilitation (M4P) is an approach to promote systemic change—change that goes beyond individual players and that is relevant to the wider environment, affecting many. Market systems development requires that organisations play a facilitating role. Standing outside of the market system, facilitators work with different players within the system, to make it work more effectively. Their essential role is active and catalytic, to enable others to do rather than do themselves—stimulating changes in a market system without becoming part of it.