Regional commercial banks show growing confidence in SMEs

Commercial banks in Latin America and the Caribbean are demonstrating increased confidence in the viability of small and medium-sized entrepreneurial pursuits in the region, a development which is likely to see an increase in the level of credit by up to 77 per cent of commercial banks in Latin America and the Caribbean, a recent survey by the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) says.

The survey says that most financial institutions