{"id":1651,"date":"2018-02-06T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2024-01-13T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T08:45:11","slug":"can-the-uae-meet-its-sme-funding-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/06\/can-the-uae-meet-its-sme-funding-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the UAE meet its SME funding challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>SMEs seeking bank financing have traditionally had a tough task on their hands in the UAE. However, small steps are being taken to resolve this issue, and optimism is widespread that the situation will improve in line with the country&#8217;s Vision 2021 national agenda.\u00a0James King reports.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/Can-the-UAE-meet-its-SME-funding-challenge-1517475609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/Can-the-UAE-meet-its-SME-funding-challenge-1517475609<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMEs seeking bank financing have traditionally had a tough task on their hands in the UAE. However, small steps are being taken to resolve this issue, and optimism is widespread that the situation will improve in line with the country&#8217;s Vision 2021 national agenda.\u00a0James King reports. https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/Can-the-UAE-meet-its-SME-funding-challenge-1517475609<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[23,38,24],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-loans","tag-sme-loans","tag-sme-sectors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smeloans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}