Across vintages, SMEs to seek liquidity buffer for long winter

Singapore

SEASONED small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have weathered cycles through the years are assessing their liquidity while on good credit standing, even as they have an estimated 30-40 per cent of their existing credit lines still untapped, a top banker from OCBC said.

Meanwhile, smaller, younger companies are already likely under stress, especially those not looking that far out to brace for a long winter, OCBC's head of global commercial banking Linus Goh told The Business Times on Wednesday.