SME confidence holds firm in the second quarter

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have maintained their confidence in the future, despite persistent challenges and uncertainty, the SME Confidence Index for the second quarter shows. SMEs are more hopeful about their growth prospects over the coming year than they were during the same period last year, showing a 15 percentage point year-on-year increase, specialist SME financier Business Partners, which publishes the index, reports.