{"id":12174,"date":"2021-02-10T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/10\/linkflow-capital-52-of-singapore-smes-were-able-to-access-financing-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2021-02-10T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:15:00","slug":"linkflow-capital-52-of-singapore-smes-were-able-to-access-financing-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/10\/linkflow-capital-52-of-singapore-smes-were-able-to-access-financing-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkflow Capital: 52% of Singapore SMEs Were Able to Access Financing in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Research conducted by Linkflow Capital shows that more SMEs continue to see improved access to financing with larger loan quantum secured in 2020                            <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutreach<\/a> &#8211; 10&#13;<br \/>\nFebruary 2021 &#8211;<i>\u00a0<\/i>In their annual SME financing research&#13;<br \/>\nconducted by Linkflow Capital, more than half&#13;<br \/>\nof SMEs experienced improved access to financing in 2020, a significant&#13;<br \/>\nincrease from 39% in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>According to Linkflow Capital, up to 52% of SMEs were&#13;<br \/>\neligible for financing in 2020 with an average loan quantum of $310,909 secured&#13;<br \/>\nwithin their platform, a 134% increase from average loan quantum of $132,500 in&#13;<br \/>\n2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We observed a higher number of SMEs with stronger revenue&#13;<br \/>\nand credit profile seeking financing amidst the Covid-19 pandemic compared to&#13;<br \/>\nprevious years. Also, with the various government financing schemes introduced&#13;<br \/>\nin 2020, this could explain why financing eligibility and average loan amounts&#13;<br \/>\nsecured last year was markedly higher.&#8221; said Ben Teo, a spokesperson for&#13;<br \/>\nLinkflow Capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Research data and statistics are derived from Linkflow&#13;<br \/>\nCapital&#8217;s SME loan comparison portal launched in 2017. For this latest survey,&#13;<br \/>\ndata was generated from over 4281 unique users for the period January to&#13;<br \/>\nDecember 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Consistent from the data in 2019 and 2018, for SMEs who&#13;<br \/>\nwere not able to access financing in 2020, the major hurdle remains a&#13;<br \/>\ncombination of low revenue and poor cash flow. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Other interesting data point observed in this year&#8217;s SME&#13;<br \/>\nfinance survey includes a surge in financing applications which peaked during&#13;<br \/>\nthe circuit breaker period, and the resulting delay in average application&#13;<br \/>\nprocessing and funds disbursement turnaround time from 22 days in 2019 to over&#13;<br \/>\n45 days in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>For detailed figures and data on Linkflow Capital&#8217;s research&#13;<br \/>\nsurvey, kindly visit their webpage at <a href=\"https:\/\/smeloan.sg\/blog\/2020-sme-finance-accessibility-survey\">https:\/\/smeloan.sg\/blog\/2020-sme-finance-accessibility-survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Linkflow Capital expects business lending to remain&#13;<br \/>\nmeasured this year as government-imposed loan moratoriums starts to wind down&#13;<br \/>\nfrom December 2020. Within the context of a K-shaped recovery taking shape,&#13;<br \/>\nlenders might also adopt a more selective approach in when underwriting specific&#13;<br \/>\nsectors and industries.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/64687#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research conducted by Linkflow Capital shows that more SMEs continue to see improved access to financing with larger loan quantum secured in 2020 SINGAPORE &#8211; Media&#13; Outreach &#8211; 10&#13; February 2021 &#8211;\u00a0In their annual SME financing research&#13; conducted by Linkflow Capital, more than half&#13; of SMEs experienced improved access to financing in 2020, a significant&#13; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}