Funding Societies enters strategic partnership with SGeBIZ to raise embedded finance solutions for SMEs in Singapore, Industry News

/PRNewswire/ — Funding Societiesthe biggest unified SME (small and medium enterprises) digital finance platform in Southeast Asiaannounced a strategic partnership with Singapore E-Industry (SGeBIZ) – a digital procurement, payment and sourcing platform supplier – to raise B2B (industry-to-industry) embedded finance (EmFi) solutions to companies in Singaporethat can channel Funding Societies’ digital financing capabilities during the “Purchase Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) feature equipped at some stage in the latter’s procurement resolution, EzyProcure.

L-R: Simon Xie, Singapore Nation Head, Funding Societies; Edmund Louis Nathan, Neighborhood CEO, SGeBIZ

The partnership will permit the over two thousand companies, who are the employ of the EzyProcure platform – comprising mainly SMEs from meals and beverage companies and their suppliers the employ of the platform – to be in a place to receive a personalized financing resolution, supported and underwritten by Funding Societies, to again these companies prepare their cash circulation.

Singapore Nation Head of Funding Societies, Simon Xiesaid, “We’re honoured to accomplice with SGeBIZ in taking a extra holistic skill in serving SMEs to again their cash circulation administration needs. One such way is recognising how we are embedding our digital financing capabilities and most efficient practices in serving Singaporean SMEs in some unspecified time in the future of the last nine years to improve the BNPL offering through EzyProcure. This will doubtless possibly possibly maybe furthermore merely synergise both companies’ cost propositions to attain extra underserved SMEs in Singapore.”

The Asia Pacific receive 22 situation displays most definitely the most promise of EmFi solutions flourishing, forecasting US$306 billion market earnings attainable – extra than half that of the realm market attainable of US$606 billion^[1]. Furthermore, The area B2B e-commerce market is already six times increased than that of B2C (industry-to-consumer) – with Asia Pacific projected to develop at a compound annual development rate (CAGR) of twenty-two% till 2030^[2]. Modern payment alternate suggestions a lot like BNPL turn out to be a key differentiating part for an B2B purchaser-carrier provider ecosystem, especially when 95% of B2B on-line consumers desire paying on credit ranking phrases correct as they would offline, however are unable to operate so with handiest much less than 10% of merchants offering such an option.

Neighborhood CEO of SGeBIZ, Edmund Louis Nathan said, “The partnership with Funding Societies is one thing I even receive envisioned since the inception of SGeBIZ, to be in a place to cost-add and again our SMEs by offering noteworthy-wanted liquidity to develop their companies. It’s furthermore extremely smartly timed, with the uncertainty in the economic cases, rising costs related to meals costs, labour, condominium and even utilities. The BNPL offering will wait on as a ideally suited complement to our present EzyProcure platform which has added efficiency beneficial properties to unique and present Patrons and Suppliers in our ecosystem.

Launched in 2016, EzyProcure is a cloud-based mostly totally platform that automates the industry-to-industry ordering, invoice reconciliation and payment processes for meals and beverage companies with their suppliers. In doing so, companies substitute many late handbook processes and with access to liquidity,  SMEs can allocate beyond regular time for development.

Since its inception in 2015, Funding Societies has disbursed over SGD5 billion (approx. SGD3.67 billion)^[3]in industry financing through 5 million transactions, positively impacting over 100,000 SMEs all over its 5 markets in Southeast Asianamely Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

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About Funding Societies

Funding Societies is the biggest unified SME digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. It’s licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailandregistered in Malaysiaand operates in Vietnam. The FinTech firm offers US$1 billion yearly of industry financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In contemporary years, it has made strategic milestones including its acquisition of regional digital funds platform CardUp and co-investment into Bank Index in Indonesia.

Funding Societiesis backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, CGC Digital (the digital arm of the Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia Berhad), SBVA (beforehand SoftBank Ventures Asia), Height XV Companions (beforehand Sequoia Capital India), Alpha JWC Ventures, SMBC Bank, BRI Ventures, VNG Corporation, Rapyd Ventures, Endeavor, EBDI, SGInnovate, Qualgro, and Golden Gate Ventures amongst others.

It has got accolades during the years including: Brands for Merely (2019, 2023), Global SME Excellence Award, Global SME Finance Awards by IFC (2021-2023) Global Startup Awards (2020), MAS FinTech Award (2016, 2021), Singapore’s Quickest-Increasing Corporations 2024 (a list of 100 companies compiled by The Straits Times and Statista).

For extra records, please declare over with: www.fundingsocieties.com

About SGeBiz

Singapore E-Industry Pte Ltd (SGeBIZ) is a Fintech Enabler for SMEs in South East Asia and a main gain-to-pay platform in Singapore. As a trusted monetary adjust center, SGeBIZ offers digital solutions from procurement, invoicing, payment and assortment to over 3,000 companies in Singapore and Malaysia. Powered by deep-rooted partnerships with monetary institutions, schemes and a bedrock of possibilities, a proprietary technology offers companies, both in the community and globally, with extra efficient operations through accurate-time records and analytics.

SGeBIZ is a identified price in its residence and one of its solutions are supported below government grants. With  over a decade of industry relationships, the firm firmly believes in leveraging its technology and solutions to improve the SME segment in the markets that it operates in.