Tunisia: With Difficulties of Access to Bank Financing, Tunisian Economic Operators Seek Alternative Funding

Tunis/Tunisia — With difficulties of access to bank financing and lack of liquidity at the level of banks, economic operators are increasingly seeking alternative or complementary financing to traditional funding, this is what revealed a webinar on "Financing and assistance tools in favour of SMEs seeking development," organised on Friday by the Confederation of Tunisian Citizen Enterprises (CONECT), in parntership with the USAID-Tunisia JOBS and the Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (APII).

"The funding of enterprises, notably Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), is a recurrent problem in Tunisia," CONECT President Tarak Cherif said during the webinair, considering that "the COVID-19 crisis has worsened an already complicated situation."

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