AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoSME Finance & Inclusion: Egypt’s Commercial International Bank (CIB) launched a free Udemy training program to boost financial inclusion and help young people understand how financial services support small businesses and digital growth. Local Business Support: Southern Arizona’s The Numbers Advisors marked its first anniversary with two free 90-point QuickBooks cleanup audits per week for qualifying small businesses, aiming to remove uncertainty around bookkeeping accuracy. Tourism & Jobs: Guyana’s Tourism and Hospitality Association welcomed the new Guyana Development Bank, saying affordable financing could help lodges, tour operators, and the wider SME tourism value chain expand—if paired with capacity building. Retail & Payments: Stripe marked 10 years in Japan with new products to accelerate digital business growth, while Square is rolling out as Pike Place Fish Market’s unified commerce platform to modernize payments and operations. Workforce Upskilling: Ireland’s Skillnet Ireland report finds 78% of business leaders see upskilling as strategic, with SMEs citing access to qualified talent as a top growth enabler. Small Business Pressure: A South African Standard Bank piece warns that price wars often trap SMEs in thinner margins, arguing survival belongs to businesses that create value customers pay for. Tech for Paperwork: pdfFiller added OCR so scanned PDFs become directly editable, targeting paper-heavy industries like legal, healthcare, and real estate.
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