BBB

The UK Government established the British Business Bank (BBB), a state-owned development bank, in 2013. Owned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the bank’s main office is in Sheffield, Yorkshire. The BBB’s mission is to drive sustainable growth and prosperity across the UK, and to enable the transition to a net zero […]

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Le Fonds slovène pour les entreprises a été admis au programme COSME

Le Fonds slovène pour les entreprises (SEF) a signé l’accord de contre-garantie COSME avec le Fonds européen d’investissement le 5 novembre 2015 comme la première institution publique slovène. Le Fonds a brillamment passé la procédure de sélection du programme COSME. Il s’agit du programme européen pour la compétitivité des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) pour la période […]

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Slovene Enterprise Fund succesfully applies to COSME

Slovene enterprise fund (SEF) has signed the COSME Counter-Guarantee Agreement with European Investment Fund (EIF) on November 5th 2015 as the first Slovene public institution.The Fund has successfully completed the selection procedure under COSME programme – EU programme for the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) for the period 2014-2020 in which one of […]

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Slovene Enterprise Fund succesfully applies to COSME

Slovene enterprise fund (SEF) has signed the COSME Counter-Guarantee Agreement with European Investment Fund (EIF) on November 5th 2015 as the first Slovene public institution.The Fund has successfully completed the selection procedure under COSME programme – EU programme for the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) for the period 2014-2020 in which one of […]

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GF Vojvodina

The Guarantee Fund of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina was established by the decision of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in 2003. The fund was established with the task of facilitating access to the financial market and providing more favourable lending conditions than those offered by banks. The fund realises this task […]

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Belgique : la SOWALFIN et le FEI signent l’accord InnovFin et COSME

Le Fonds européen d’investissement (FEI) et la Société wallonne de financement et de garantie des petites et moyennes entreprises (SOWALFIN) dont le siège se trouve à Liège, ont signé les premiers accords de garantie InnovFin et COSME en Belgique. Ils bénéficient du soutien du Fonds européens pour les investissements stratégiques (FEIS) grâce auquel la Commission […]

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Investment Plan for Europe: EIF and 16 Bürgschaftsbanken sign COSME agreement to support SMEs

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and 16 Bürgschaftsbanken have signed a COSME guarantee agreement in Germany benefitting from the support of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) through which the Investment Plan for Europe is deployed by the European Commission and the EIB Group. The COSME agreement will allow Bürgschaftsbanken to support EUR 670 […]

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Belgium: Sowalfin and the EIF sign agreement on InnovFin and COSME

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the Société Wallonne de Financement et de Garantie des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (SOWALFIN) with headquarter in Liège, have signed the first InnovFin and COSMEguarantee agreements in Belgium. These transactions benefit from the support of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) through which the Investment Plan for Europe […]

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