SME Financing- how to obtain it?

The demand for financing among small and medium enterprises keeps rising, but how do you obtain money? Traditional sources of finance will continue becoming less and less important.

ECE Community member Symbid has the answer

In the RTL Z edition of ‘De Kijker aan Zet’ our active ECE community member Robin Slakhorst from Symbid sheds light on the problems and challenges faced by the entrepreneur of today.

After years of decline there are finally signs of recovery in terms of granting loans to small and medium enterprises. Nonetheless, even now more than half of the requests for loans are not honoured by the banks. Entrepreneurs need to find new ways to obtain money. More and more alternatives to banks are emerging, but the challenge is – according to Slakhorst – to familiarize entrepreneurs with those alternatives.

In ‘De Kijker aan Zet’ they discuss alternative options for financing, the future of the bank as a lender, and the pro’s and con’s of foreign investments in Dutch companies. The discussion is in Dutch, but you can watch it here.

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