The "Capital Market" is any market for debt or equity securities, where companies raise long term funds.

The "Capital Markets" are the primary markets where, new debt or equity issues are distributed to investors, and the secondary market, where existing securities are traded.

SME Capital Markets value proposition helps management teams develop paths to value creation in the capital markets.     

The SME Capital Markets website offers information about entry-level capital markets and the regulatory regimes that enable them.  It introduces service and solution providers who work in these markets and it is an information resource that covers technology, regulatory compliance and emerging green markets. 

Website content is targeted to smaller reporting company management teams and the service and solution providers that support them.

Visitors are invited to guide the creation of information that is presented on this site by taking the Website Improvement Survey

Global initiatives to organize and develop entry-level capital markets create new options and challenges for SMEs to raise capital and for their investors to benefit by secondary market trading.  People who engage in these efforts develop specialty knowledge. SME Capital Markets contends that facilitating the exchange of this knowledge accelerates action on SME paths to value creation in the capital markets.

SME Capital Markets is a division of WBS&A, Ltd.

WBS&A, Ltd. provides management consulting services to help officers, directors, attorneys, auditors and other service and solution providers on their paths to value creation in the capital markets. 

Brad Smith, President WBS&A, Ltd. delivers consulting services including serving on advisory boards’, working with decision makers on value creation projects and helping management teams develop their business models.  For information about consulting services please email  Brad Smith

management teams and the service and solution providers that support more paths to value creation in the capital markets. 

New  initiatives are continually underway to organize and develop SME-level capital markets. The initiatives are supported by innovators creating right-sized services and solutions.  There is a global scope of innovative efforts to organize and develop SME-level alternative capital markets by providing right-sized services and solutions.

SMEs are responding to these initiatives by driving the integration of economies through cross border strategic alliances, listing and trading.  Many unique efforts are underway to develop SME-level alternative capital markets, services and solutions. Some will succeed and others will not.  Each attempt to organize and develop a new SME-level capital market, regulatory regime and right sized service or solution generates knowledge that can be applied in other markets. 

SME Capital Markets mission makes this knowledge more accessible.   

SME Capital Markets Website

SME Capital Markets leverages the power of knowledge by offering access to SME-level capital market information and by introducing service and solution specialists.

Goal 

Offer actionable information about SME-level capital market segments where capitalization and value creation measures are being produced by SME-level companies and their investors.

Mission

Leverage the power of knowledge by extending the reach of SME-level capital market information, services and solutions.

Aims

Offer deeper insight information that is not easily found elsewhere about SME debt and equity funding programs, secondary markets and the service and solution providers that support these programs.

Survey SME-level stakeholders about key issues, practices programs and policies.

Support innovation and knowledge exchange by offering lists of information and introducing SME-level capital market service and solution providers.

Audience

Management team decision makers, officers, directors, investors and the service and solution providers that support SME capitalization, secondary market trading, regulatory compliance. 

This audience includes policy makers, economic development entities, securities regulators, information producers, intermediaries, academics and other SME-level capital market stakeholders

Global Overview

Improving SMEs access to capital produces economic benefits by creating jobs and bringing innovation to the market place.  Accelerating the flow of capital into SMEs and monetizing SME values in the capital markets is a global problem and opportunity for stakeholders in this segment.  Leveraging the power of knowledge by offering access to SME-level capital market information and introducing service and solution providers creates unique opportunities.  The objective is to help decision makers act on these opportunities.

Importance of Capital Markets

Flowing capital to small-to-medium-enterprises is the key to economic prosperity because these entities are the primary job creators in most countries. This site centers its work on aggregating and exchanging information about projects to organize and develop SME-level capital markets. The objective is to present information that helps stakeholders across the spectrum of capitalizing companies, monentizing their value and organizing and developing SME-level capital markets.

Small-to-Medium-Enterprises Value Proposition

SME's deliver value by creating new jobs and wealth. Business entities and sovereign state economies are increasingly interconnected through SME's establishing alliances. 

SME business models on all sides of alliance relationships must be capitalized. The international trade of SME goods and services can only be sustained by supporting initiatives to organize and develop entry-level capital markets.

Knowledge exchange supports the SME value proposition.  This website site supports knowledge exchange by offering directories of SME capital market specialists, surveying market participants about emerging issues, presenting research reports and by introducing specialists that help management teams produce value creation in the capital markets.

SME Capital Market Research Reports

SME Capital Market research reports focus on topics that are not covered by other sources. To the extent issues or trends can be addressed by creating information that will influence decision makers efforts will be made to develop research reports about these topics.

SME Capital Market Surveys

Surveys are undertaken to develop granular information about SME-level capital market segments.

Survey responses from management teams, officers, directors, service and solution providers and stakeholders who work in entry level capital market segments guides the continuing development of content on the SME Capital Markets website.

Completed surveys will be offered as Research Report products.

Custom surveys can be developed and undertaken upon request.

Legal

This Web site and its content are provided as an information service to readers on an "as-is, as-available" basis.

The information is collected from sources that are deemed to be reliable. SME Capital Markets assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions in the information that is presented on this website.

Reasonable efforts will be made to update information when there is a need to do so.

Visitors are cautioned to use information found on this website as a resource to help them undertake additional research.