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Douglas Arner, Sijuade Animashaun, Yixiao Cai, Kuzi Charamba
California Western International Law Journal, Volume 55, Number 1 (2024)
Published online: March 2025
Abstract: This article examines how digital payment innovation and supporting initiatives, such as infrastructure and regulation, can foster micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) access to finance. This expanded access in turn supports broader sustainable development as reflected in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these goals requires thoughtful consideration and management of technological and a range of other risks and impacts across jurisdictions and governance levels.
Digital payment platforms serve as collectors, aggregators and (in some cases) providers of MSME financial and other data. This supports lending, low-cost agent-assisted financial transactions, financial products, and services by conventional banks, micro-finance institutions (MFIs), and non-bank financial institutions. Importantly, the data provided by these platforms can facilitate cash flow analysis and factoring (a form of alternative credit data) in which MSMEs use receivables as collateral (complementing other forms of collateral, such as real properties) to access finance within traditional lending institutions or elsewhere.
As consumer confidence in e-commerce platforms boosts the digital presence of MSMEs, new markets for MSMEs (particularly small retail shops, such as “mom-and-pop” stores providing last-mile services to unbanked and underserved segments in remote areas) emerges. Yet, there have been increasing concerns among policymakers and regulators at national, regional, and international levels......(Please click here to read the full text.)
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