COVID-19 Information
AECM, European Association of Guarantee Institutions
AECM upcoming events
22 – 25 September 2021
AECM Annual Event
Virtual
18 – 21 May 2022
AECM Annual Event
Vienna, Austria
June 2023
AECM Annual Event
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Selected events
27 May 2021
EC/ECB joint online conference
European financial integration and stability
29 June 2021
European Commission
Brussels Economic Forum
07 October 2021
Bpifrance
Big inno generation
11 – 14 October 2021
OECD
8th OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment
14 – 15 October 2021
OECD
60th Session of the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE)
18 – 21 October 2021
SME Finance Forum
Global SME Finance Forum
Mission
AECM has currently 48 member organizations operating in 31 EU countries, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Switzerland, Serbia, Russia, Turkey and United Kingdom. Its members are mutual, private sector guarantee schemes as well as public institutions, which are either guarantee funds or Development banks with a guarantee division. They all have in common the mission of providing loan guarantees for SMEs who have an economically sound project but cannot provide sufficient bankable collateral. In 2020, AECM member organizations had a total guarantee volume in portfolio of 330.3 bn. EUR (+200% with respect to pre-covid 2019), issued a total volume of almost 279.2 bn. EUR of new guarantees during the pandemic year 2020 and supported 5.2 million SMEs.
