{"id":408981,"date":"2020-06-19T07:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=408981"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T09:01:56","slug":"fnb-launches-toolkit-to-help-businesses-impacted-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/408981\/fnb-launches-toolkit-to-help-businesses-impacted-by-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB launches Toolkit to help businesses impacted by Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=13244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rapid response survey by Stats SA<\/a> recently revealed that a staggering 42% of respondents were not confident of being able to continue operations post the COVID-19 outbreak. When asked how long business could continue without turnover, 54% indicated that they would only be able to survive between one to three months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19 and the SME ecosystem: impact, interventions and a new business normal (Part 1):<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/iframe.iono.fm\/e\/876082?accent=f59c00&amp;background=ffffff&amp;border=00686f&amp;text=00686f&amp;artwork=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"126\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19 and the SME ecosystem: impact, interventions and a new business normal (Part 2):<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/iframe.iono.fm\/e\/876085?accent=f59c00&amp;background=ffffff&amp;border=00686f&amp;text=00686f&amp;artwork=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"126\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese statistics are a snapshot of a situation facing thousands of South African businesses today. With banking customers, ranging from start-up entrepreneurs to large, listed companies, FNB has chosen to provide continued support to those clients and all other South African businesses via a Business Toolkit,\u201d said Yolande Steyn, Head of FNB SME Growth and Support.<\/p>\n<p>Steyn notes that while the COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to have a significantly negative impact on the South African economy, the SME market is likely to be hardest hit resulting in larger scale unemployment. \u201cOur experience to date has been that many SMEs are under-equipped to deal with their current reality; yet they will face dire consequences if correct action is not taken rapidly. Further, the many economic and SME support packages, while welcome, do not address the strategic need businesses may face to survive\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>To address this in some part, FNB has developed a Business Toolkit in collaboration with Edge Growth and Vumela Enterprise Development Fund, who have been growing and coaching businesses for the past 12 years. The Business Toolkit includes a range of videos, articles, tools and templates to help your business respond to the current environment and provide you with relevant advice that will make a difference to your business and its it\u2019s agility to get through the COVID-19 crisis\u2019. The Business Toolkit will be updated regularly over the coming months to cover 4-phases of crisis management, that will help equip businesses on how to &#8211; react, respond, re-strategize and re-launch.\u201d Steyn explained.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Goldberg, Co-Founder, Director of Edge Growth and CEO 10X Entrepreneur, said \u201cThis pandemic is devastating businesses and livelihoods. We run the real risk of a permanent loss of millions of jobs if SMEs are forced to shut permanently. Businesses are the backbone of employment in Africa, and if they don\u2019t come out of this and grow, the humanitarian disaster could be devastating. We simply have to maximise the survival rate of businesses to accelerate the economic recovery and employment bounce back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This Business Toolkit gives business owners the ultimate field guide to beat COVID-19. It focuses on helping them survive now (scenario planning, liquidity management, cost-cutting, rightsizing, etc), and then bouncing back (restrategise for the new world), by giving them all the practical advice, tools and templates they need, all in one place.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>What\u2019s in the FNB Business Toolkit?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The FNB Business Toolkit, which is available to both FNB clients via the FNB App takes the form of a 4-phased approach with key areas mapped on a timeline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phase 1: React \u2013 safety of people and compliance<\/li>\n<li>Phase 2: Respond \u2013 business survival and stabilisation<\/li>\n<li>Phase 3: Re-strategize \u2013 \u201cnew world\u201d ready business offering and model<\/li>\n<li>Phase 4: Re-launch \u2013 business growth and health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Toolkit includes development of offensive and defensive strategies across:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safety and compliance<\/li>\n<li>Liquidity and financials<\/li>\n<li>Customer and strategy<\/li>\n<li>Operations<\/li>\n<li>People and culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe impact of COVID-19 could have a devasting effect and the local economy and businesses require sustained support during these trying times. \u201cWe believe that our partnership with Edge Growth and the 10X Entrepreneur programme will help businesses with guidance and survival framework on how to survive\u201d said Steyn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnb.co.za\/realhelp\/for-my-business\/business-talk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For more information, visit the FNB website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With banking customers, ranging from start-up entrepreneurs to large, listed companies, FNB has chosen to provide continued support to those clients and all other South African businesses via a Business Toolkit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":418301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-408981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-fnb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421138,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408981\/revisions\/421138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}