To increase the impact of its lending and facilitate small businesses’ access to finance, the EIB Group helps banks and funds by taking on part of their risk.
In certain cases and with certain partner banks, the EIB provides a guarantee in addition to the funds that it grants.
The EIF supports a broad range of financial intermediaries (banks, guarantee funds, mutual guarantee institutions, microcredit organisations) by providing them with two types of guarantee instrument:
To find out more go to http://www.eif.org/what_we_do/guarantees/index.htm
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