Delayed payments from customers remains key challenge for SMEs: SPRING survey

SINGAPORE (Dec 18): Managing delays in customer payments remains as a key finance-related challenge for Singapore's small-medium enterprises (SMEs) even with easy access to debt financing, according to recent findings from the 2017 SME Financing Survey by SPRING Singapore. 

Now in its second edition, the 2017 SME Financing Survey involved over 1,800 SME respondents across various industries, revenue bands and stages of development, and was conducted by SPRING Singapore in partnership with Dun & Bradstreet between June and Sept this year.

This year’s findings revealed that a majority (90%) of the 13% of SMEs which sought external financing in the past year were successful in their applications.

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