SME

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has launched an upgraded online portal that consolidates business assistance, advisory services, training materials and mentoring for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

The tools available to Philippine enterprises today are miles ahead of what they had even five years ago.

Achieve Without Borders Networks Inc. (AWBN) has been appointed the exclusive Philippine distributor of H3C and Aolynk products for the small and medium enterprises market.

Visa and USSC Money Services Inc. (UMSI) have launched a service that allows micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to accept contactless card payments through smartphones, eliminating the need for conventional point-of-sale (POS) terminals.

Payment solutions provider VeritasPay Philippines is expanding its operations nationwide as more small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adopt digital payment systems amid the country’s growing cashless economy.

Pine Labs will provide the software infrastructure to expand GCash’s merchant acquisition efforts.

Quotable AI and PayMongo have entered a partnership aimed at integrating quoting and payment processes for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines, addressing persistent inefficiencies in business-to-business (B2B) transactions.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), through its E-Commerce Bureau (ECB), has awarded the E-Commerce Philippine Trustmark to First Circle, making it the first SME financing company to receive this government-issued digital badge.

Launched on July 29, the Credit Risk Database Philippines Web-based Scoring System (CRDPh System) provides banks and other financial institutions (FIs) with a standardized tool for evaluating the creditworthiness of SMEs.

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