SME News June 2017

SME NEWS / June 2017 3 Contents , 4. Spotify Investor and Fin-Tech Fund Back Business Banking App 6. 9Spokes Announces Royal Bank of Canada to Become First North American Channel Partner 8. UK Entrepreneurs Will Give £171m More a Month to Charity if Their Businesses Grow 10. ICT Retail Spend in SA Is on the Increase, despite Struggling Economy 12. Cloud X Recruits Former Amazon Senior Product Manager John Swiderski 14. The Small-to-Medium Business Market 16. Supply and Demand Chain Transformation 18. gnTel Selects Oracle Communications to Scale Cloud Based Hosted Services 20. Enabling the UK Video Games Industry to Access Talent after Brexit 22. Commerce Report Reveals Gap between U.S. Retailers and Prime-Centric Online Shoppers 26. Seven Major European Banks Select IBM to Bring Blockchain-Based Trade Finance to SMEs 28. Global Tokenization Market to Reach $2.25 Billion by 2022 30. Bank of the West Appoints Joe Chasteen as National Small Business Banking Manager *