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Latest publications on Credit to SMEs

Mexico | The New Business Map in Mexico

January 14, 2026

MSMEs are the backbone of employment in Mexico, but face widening gaps with large firms in productivity, financing, and digitalization. These constraints limit their contribution to value added and shape growth prospects in a context of lower global economic dynamism.

SME: Financial X-ray 2024

June 25, 2025

Mexican MSMEs have advanced in financial inclusion, but gaps in credit access and digitalization remain. Micro and women-led businesses face greater barriers. Strategic support is essential to fully integrate them into economic development.

Mexico | Credit to SMEs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 11, 2022

The incomplete recovery of the components of aggregate demand compared to the period prior to the pandemic does not favor the reactivation of the demand for financing from the SME segment, whose balances have presented heterogeneous dynamics both among sectors and uses of credit.

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