According to provisional data from Savills, warehouse take-up across Europe reached 13.4 million sq m in H1 2023. This is just 9% lower than H1 2019, suggesting a return to pre-Covid levels across the continent, despite a 37% decline year-on-year. Q2 fared more positively than the previous quarter with take-up totalling 6.4 million sq m, […]
UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, has underwritten €781m of financing – equivalent to £680m – to support construction of a 286km high-speed electrified railway across southern Turkey. With financing provided through UKEF’s Buyer Credit Facility, Rönesans Holding will finish construction of the Mersin-Adana-Gaziantep High Speed Railway on behalf of the […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest multilateral public bank, and Banco Santander (Brasil), the largest foreign bank in Brazil, have signed an agreement to foster the use of renewable energy in Brazil. Ricardo Mourinho Félix, vice-president of the EIB, and Carlos Rey de Vicente, Banco Santander’s regional head for South America, signed a […]
UK government backing has enabled a financing package of €422m – equivalent to £373m – for transformational infrastructure projects driven by UK exporters across Zanzibar, Tanzania. The financing was underwritten by UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, and enables two major projects: a historic upgrade to Pemba Airport – the smaller […]
According to Savills, Factory Outlet Centres (FOC) have increased in attractiveness in Europe in recent years as many consumers cut back on their purchases of discretionary goods and instead spend more on ‘one-off’ items typically found in outlet stores. In a recent 2023 survey by ecostra, brands were asked which countries offer the greatest potential […]
The Asia Corporate Payment Survey, conducted by Coface between November 2022 and April 2023, provides insights into the evolution of payment behaviour and credit management practices of about 2,300 companies across the Asia Pacific region. Respondents are active in nine markets (Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand) and 13 […]
Linked Finance, now Ireland’s fastest growing alternative lending platforms, has reached a significant milestone of providing more than €250m in lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the country. This achievement underscores the strong and increased demand that there is in the Irish SME sector for alternative forms of finance and marks a decade […]
SME Bank, the neobank startup that offers banking and financial services specifically for small- and medium-sized enterprises, has signed a new partnership contract with the European Investment Fund (EIF) unlocking €157m in loans (€65m of which has already been financed) to foster growth and development among SMEs across the Baltics, Finland, and the Netherlands. With […]
Chile is positioned as the leading innovation ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean and as a result, has an increasing number of scale ups which are looking to expand internationally into new markets, such as the UK. In recognition of this, ProChile Global X, a soft-landing program for Chilean companies willing to expand towards Europe […]
SME Finance, the fintech reinventing growth financing for small- and medium-sized enterprises, announces today its expansion into the Netherlands. By catering directly to the Dutch market, this expansion not only marks a major step forward in SME Finance’s broader availability throughout Europe but will drive growth and improve financing access in the country. This Dutch […]
