Topic 1:

LOAN GUARANTEE SCHEME AS A HELP TO ACCESS TO CREDIT FOR NEW AND START-UP COMPANIES

 

Providing guarantees to new and start-up enterprises is still one of the key issues. Loan Guarantee Scheme is a financial instrument, which helps solving this problem. By providing guarantees to enterprises it increases the flow of bank lending to SME.

 

-          Coordinator: Podlaska Regional Development Foundation, Bialystok, Poland

-          Signatories of  Cooperation Agreement:

o       Podlaski Loan Guarantee Fund Ltd, Bialystok, Poland

o       Unionfidi Lazio S.p.A., Rome, Italy

o       Slovene Enterprise Fund, Maribor, Slovenia

o       Investment and Business Guarantees, Ltd. (INVEGA), Vilnius, Lithuania