Micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) are considered as the core of future economic growth all over the world. Over 95 per cent of enterprises in the OECD area, for instance, are MSMEs and they account for approximately 60-70 per cent of employment in most countries.

MSMEs are widely seen as the key for job creation and therefore high emphasis is given on a policy level to enhance the access of small and medium sized companies to financing, especially risk capital. The level of development of capital markets plays a vital role here and builds the ground for access to capital.

Sound capital- and financial markets have a long tradition in developed economies and contributed to a very high extent to the economic success of these countries. Increasing the access of micro, small and medium sized enterprises to financing, is a key success factor, which leads to higher employment rates and poverty reduction.

CAPMEX?s MSME development practice is providing advisory services for micro-enterprises and SMEs with special emphasis on financing, investment promotion and the design and build-up of SME segments on the capital markets. Most of our MSME development activities are geared towards upgrading the MSME landscape of a country to increase on one hand the financing opportunities of MSMEs and on the other hand to facilitate the access of SMEs to the regional capital markets, with the effect of poverty reduction and employment growth.

Our MSME development services are mainly targeted towards:

 Governments
 International Finance Institutions and Donor Agencies
 Agencies
 Institutions
 Companies

Equity capital, regardless of how it is raised ? either through the stock market or through venture capital ? is indispensable whenever companies with the typical combination of internal and external financing operating in a more or less credit-oriented financing culture reach their growth limits. Under the competitive conditions of globalization, a growing  number of companies are now compelled to pursue strategic growth strategies that can only be achieved through access to equity capital. The same applies to the exploitation of growth potential of technology companies that need to take advantage of windows of innovation and market opportunities that exist for only a limited period of time.