AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoIndia-Canada Trade Push: India and Canada launched a new Trade and Investment Forum after Piyush Goyal’s Canada visit, aiming to connect businesses, improve connectivity, and accelerate CEPA talks with a year-end target. UK SME Lending Pressure: Top UK banks are lobbying Chancellor Rachel Reeves to expand the Growth Guarantee Scheme, including a higher loan cap and more annual lending, to unlock capital for small firms. AI Dealmaking Spotlight: Anthropic surged past OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup after a $65B funding round, underscoring how fast enterprise AI investment is reshaping tech markets. Enterprise Tech Moves: Visa invested in Replit to integrate Visa Intelligent Commerce into agent-building workflows, while Snowflake signed a $6B AWS deal for enterprise AI workloads. Local Business Reality Check: A U.S. Chamber survey shows small-business owners’ confidence is steady for their own firms but weaker for local and national economies, with hiring and investment plans cooling. SME Operations & Costs: South Africa’s Spinnaker Support is expanding third-party help for Oracle, SAP and VMware estates as licensing and upgrade cycles pressure boards to fund AI and cyber resilience.
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