CBZ Bank has signed a US$10 million factoring and supply chain finance line of credit with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a move the bank says will revolutionise financing for Zimbabwea...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 September 2025
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Zimbabwe are buckling under the weight of steep compliance costs - some as high as US$10,000 annually - raising alarm over a regulatory environment that is drivi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 July 2025
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Holdings (ZSEH) is in talks with the government to secure tax incentives aimed at encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to participate on the stock exchange...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 July 2025
There is growing urgency for Zimbabwe to overhaul its legal and policy framework governing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to protect them from the looming threat of regional competition, particul...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2025
Zimbabwe's manufacturing industry is largely being sustained by small to medium enterprises (SMEs), with fresh calls emerging for a strategic revival of the sector amid concerns over fluctuating perfo...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2025
STANBIC Bank has positioned itself as a leader in the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) space through its suite of purpose-built solutions, including the Africa China Trade Agent Proposition, which con...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 April 2025
SMALL to medium enterprises (SMEs) are generating an average of $1 million a day at the Beitbridge Border Post through payment of taxes, according to Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterpr...
By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019
The impact of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) on the country's economy cannot be ignored. They contribute largely, not just to the fiscus, but continue to fill the gap in providing services and pro...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 December 2018
Emerging small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are still lagging behind in financial inclusion accounting for only 1 percent of the total bank accounts as at the quarter to March 2018. Figures from the R...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 June 2018
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe Contributory Pension Fund has taken one of its Bulawayo tenants, Small and Medium Enterprises Association of Zimbabwe, to court over $13 000 rental arrears. NRZ Pensi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 June 2018
STATE-owned mobile telecommunications firm, NetOne, has come up with a programme to capacitate 500 Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the country and help them create jobs in the next few month...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 June 2018
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) plans to cut taxes for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) as part of efforts to help them formalise their operations through compliance. A working paper titled â...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018
LOCAL industry is proposing that government offers tax holidays for small- to-medium enterprises (SMEs) to help grow the sector that has become the backbone of the economy.Zimbabwe National Chamber of...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2018
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed financial services group, CBZ Holdings, has set aside $12 million to establish a small to medium enterprises centre in Harare. CBZ Properties general manager Hasmon Bvum...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 April 2018
ZIMBABWE's largest banking group, CBZ Holdings, will this year avail an additional $10 million loan facility to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as it seeks to consolidate its support to one of the...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 March 2018
CBZ Holdings, Zimbabwe's biggest banking group (by assets and deposits) plans to expand its small to medium enterprise loan book by $10 million to stimulate growth in the sector, as profits rose 17 pe...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 March 2018
The Zimbabwe Chamber of Small to Medium Enterprises has said government must in future not disburse any funding targeted at the SMEs through commercial banks as they do not understand the workings of ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 March 2018
ZIMBABWE's largest banking group, CBZ Holdings, will this month host the second edition of the CBZ International Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) Indaba at the ZITF grounds in Bulawayo.CBZ Bank has be...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 March 2018
Homelink Finance Services has set aside over $10 million to enhance the export capacity of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) this year.This is also expected to boost the competitiveness of SMEs produ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 February 2018
NMBZ Holdings has secured in excess of US$56 million worth of lines of credit in the last five years to fund various projects, but is yet to draw down on some of them due to foreign currency shortages...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 February 2018
Negotiations involving the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), ZimTrade and the Export Credit Guarantee Company (ECGC), which will culminate in small and medium enterprises - mainly those in the export bu...
By Staff reporter | Published: 27 November 2017
SMALL to Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development Minister Sithembiso Nyoni says President Mugabe's directive to move vendors to designated areas is progressive and will assist in formalisation...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 October 2017
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) subsidiary Homelink has availed a $1,5 million loan facility to small to medium enterprises as part of efforts to improve small scale businesses. The funding is coming a...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 October 2017
Running a start-up SME business is often a very difficult and tricky affair.Emerging entrepreneurs face myriad challenges, which range from the first stages of coming up with a profitable business mod...
By Dr Sanderson Abel | Published: 27 September 2017
INDIAN companies are set to invest $3,9 million towards supporting Small to Medium Enterprises, as part of efforts to forge co-operation with local businesses and creating avenues to markets for their...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 September 2017
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