Products and Services

The EIB offers five main services to clients:

Loans: granted to viable capital spending programmes or projects in both the public and private sectors. Counterparties range from large corporations to municipalities and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Technical Assistance: provided by a team of expert economists, engineers and sectoral specialists to complement EIB financing facilities.
Guarantees: available to a wide range of counterparties, e.g. banks, leasing companies, guarantee institutions, mutual guarantee funds, special purpose vehicles and others.
Venture Capital: requests for venture capital should be addressed directly to an intermediary. See www.eif.org to obtain the list.
Microfinance: granted to professional and socially-committed microfinance intermediaries, such as microfinance institutions and microfinance investment vehicles both inside and outside Europe. Transactions in microfinance take various forms (loans, equity, guarantees and technical assistance).

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