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We are European Ivestment Bank Group's specialist provider of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) risk finance across Europe. We are owned by the European Investment Bank (EIB), with which we form the EIB Group, the European Commission and a wide range of public and private banks and financial institutions.

We have an unique shareholding structure as a public-private partnership and benefit from the Multilateral Development Bank status, which enables financial institutions to apply a 0% risk-weighting to assets we guarantee.

We invest in venture capital and growth funds, mezzanine funds that support SMEs. Our investment activities also cover technology transfer and business incubators. Our clients are a wide range of commercial, public and promotional banks, guarantee and mutual guarantee funds, leasing companies and special purpose vehicles to improve the funding they can provide to beneficiary SMEs.

Typically, we guarantee certain tranches of notes (senior and/or mezzanine tranches) issued through a SME securitisation transaction.We do not provide finance to SMEs directly but our clients include a wide range of financial institutions, banks and venture capital funds involved in SMEs funding.