The National Guarantee Fund (NGF) is a subsidiary of the 100% state owned Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB). It issues guarantees for bank loans to the non-financial sector. Its focus is to support small and medium-sized enterprises. As of end-2021, NGF had an outstanding guarantee volume of mEUR 132.8 and supported a total of 2,500 small […]
WE is the public regional promotional institution for the Belgian region of Wallonia. It was founded in 2002 under the name of SOWALFIN. In 2023, it changed the name to WE – Wallonie Entreprendre and merger with two other Walloon NPIs. WE provides financial and non-financial services to SMEs. One of the financial solutions proposed […]
NÖBEG (Guarantee and Participations Company of Lower Austria) is a bank with a private-public shareholder structure that has the task to promote SMEs in the Austrian region Lower Austria. For this purpose, NÖBEG offers financial instruments in the form of guarantees for bank loans and silent participations. Both products can effort the following purposes: investment […]
Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH (aws) is the Austrian federal promotional institution. It assists companies (mainly SMEs and Start-ups) in their implementation of innovative or growth-oriented projects by issuing individual guarantees, granting loans and awarding grants. In addition, aws provides among others, leasing guarantees, advisory services as well as equity and quasi-equity products. aws was founded […]
KredEx is a foundation set up by the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications in 2001 with the aim of providing financial solutions based on the best practices in the world. KredEx helps enterprises develop quicker and expand more safely to foreign markets, offering loans, venture capital, credit insurance and guarantees with state guarantee. […]
