Under RSI, EIF has so far signed agreements with the financial institutions listed below. These institutions act as EIF's intermediaries and provide loans or leasings to research-based and innovative SMEs and Small Mid-Caps established and operating in one or several of the EU Member States or As...
The "RSI Terms of Confidentiality" sets out how the EIF handles confidential information provided by, or on behalf of, Financial Intermediaries submitting their Expression of Interest for the RSI Facility (Risk Sharing Instrument for Innovation and Research oriented SMEs and Small mid-caps).
RSI was a guarantee scheme managed by EIF in the 2007-2013 programming period launched in cooperation with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission under the 7 th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7). RSI aimed at improving access to debt f...
18/11/2013 - Please note that the guarantee made available to BPI under the RSI agreement with EIF has been increased and now reads EUR 160 million. For more information kindly refer to the Portuguese press release issued by BPI . The European Investment Fund (EIF) and BPI have signed a guarantee...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and IKB Leasing have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) . This agreement allows IKB Leasing to provide innovative companies with access to a total of EUR 50 million...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Deutsche Bank Poland have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) . This agreement allows Deutsche Bank to provide innovative companies with access to a total of EUR...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Deutsche Bank Spain have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) . This agreement allows Deutsche Bank to provide innovative companies with access to a total of EUR ...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Raiffeisen-Leasing Polska S.A. have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) , a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the European Commission. T...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Cassa di Risparmio di Cento (CR Cento) have today signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the Europ...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Banco Espírito Santo have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under an initiative funded by the European Commission. The new agreement signed under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) initiati...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Deutsche Bank have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the European Commission. This agreement al...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and First Investment Bank (FIB) have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as Small Mid-caps under an initiative funded by the European Commission. The new agreement signed under the Risk ...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Nordea Bank Denmark have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as Small Mid-caps under an initiative funded by the European Commission . The new agreement signed under the Risk Sharing...
Download the Italian version (PDF) The E uropean Investment Fund (EIF) and Deutsche Bank Italy h ave signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as Small Mid-caps under an initiative funded by the European Commission . The new ag...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Allied Irish Banks (AIB) have today signed in Dublin the first guarantee agreement, to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the Euro...
EIF and Bank Pekao have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) , a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the European Commission. This agreement allows Bank Pekao to provide innovat...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and ICCREA BancaImpresa (Iccrea banking Group) have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as Small Mid-caps under an initiative funded by the European Commission . The new agreement signed...
RSI was a pilot guarantee scheme managed by EIF in the 2007-2013 programming period launched in cooperation with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission under the 7 th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7). RSI aimed at improving access to ...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Ceska Sporitelna have today signed the first guarantee agreement in Prague, to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the European Com...
Read the press release issued by aws (German language) The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS) have signed the first counter-guarantee agreement in Europe with a promotional institution to support lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as w...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Komercni banka have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the European Commission . Following the agr...
Download the German version The European Investment Fund (EIF) and UniCredit under the lead of UniCredit Bank Austria have signed today multi-country guarantee agreements to support lending to i nnovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as small mid-caps in Bulgaria, Croatia, th...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Banco Popolare have today signed the first guarantee agreement, to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the European Commission. T...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and ABN AMRO today have signed the first guarantee agreement in the Netherlands to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the European Com...
The EIF and Bankinter today signed Spain's first guarantee agreement designed to improve access to financing for small and medium enterprises, as part of the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the European Commission. Thanks to this ag...
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The European Investment Fund (EIF) and UniCredit Bank Austria have today signed the first guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) , a joint initiative of the European I...
Read the Italian Press release The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Alba Leasing have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) initiative funded by the European Commission. The new RSI agreement allows A...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Sparbanken Öresund have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under an initiative funded by the European Commission. The new agreement signed under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) initiative allows Spa...
On 3 rd October 2012, the EIF and UniCredit Bank Austria have signed the first guarantee agreement to support lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and ‘Small Mid-Caps’ under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and ...
The Risk Sharing Initiative (RSI) , managed by the EIF, was a pilot guarantee scheme managed by EIF in the 2007-2013 programming period. RSI was launched in cooperation with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission under the 7th EU Framework Programme for Research and Techno...
The EIF, the EIB and the European Commission, have launched today a new guarantee facility for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them access finance from bank: the "Risk Sharing Instrument for Innovative and Research oriented SMEs and small Mid-Caps" (RSI). RSI will be ...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Credito Valtellinese , assisted by Finanziaria Internazionale, have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI ), a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Grou...
The European Investment Bank Group is partnering with Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. (Halkbank) and providing a EUR 100 million facility to support innovative and research-oriented small and medium-sized companies and mid-caps in Turkey, with the financial support of the European Union (EU).
The two...
The European Commission is contributing a further €150 million from the 7th Research Framework programme to an initiative with the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group to encourage lending to innovative businesses. The Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) , managed by the European Investment Fund (EIF) ...
On 2ndn May 2013 in Dublin, at the SME Finance Forum, the European Commission and the EIB Group (the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund) jointly presented this report on their activities facilitating access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in 2012, r...
Do you ever arrive in a new city, see a great advert for a local attraction on a billboard and get inspired to go and visit it? Have you ever been thought about going to buy something while waiting for a bus, because you were tempted by an advert at the bus stop? Well, you might have been enticed...
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The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Banques Populaires-Caisses d’Épargne (BPCE Group) have signed two guarantee agreements to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under initiatives funded by the European Commission . ...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Credito Emiliano and Credemleasing (together “CREDEM GROUP”), assisted by Finanziaria Internazionale, have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as Small Mid-caps under an initiative f...
Zeta Biopharma is a plant construction company in Austria with 237 employees providing process technology for biopharmaceutical applications by supplying global pharmaceutical companies with individually designed plants. Zeta’s production plants are used by large pharma companies to develop vacci...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Bpifrance (the French public investment bank) have signed a guarantee agreement to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) under the Risk Sharing Instrument (RSI) , a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank Group and the Europea...
What do cars, cranes, diggers, trains, mining excavators and combine harvesters have in common? All of these vehicles use bearings to keep the machinery moving. NBI Bearings Europe is one of the leading bearings companies in Spain providing these valuable parts to industrial sectors including the...
The EIF, the EIB and the European Commission, have launched today a new guarantee facility for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them access finance from banks. This builds on the success of the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF), launched in 2007, that has so far hel...
Keeping the streets can be costly for local authorities and most town planners would love to roll-out dirt free pavements across towns and cities. CS-Beton is doing exactly that. It is one of the biggest producers of concrete goods for pavements, roads, highways and airports and is the first comp...
Did you know that each grain of rice that you eat has been milled? And do you know what is involved in the milling process? The oldest milling company in Portugal has been milling rice since 1920, meticulously removing the outer shell/husk, stones and impurities from the raw product in order to s...
EIF has launched three Calls for Expression of Interest targeting financial and credit institutions, funds and other intermediaries who provide finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small Mid-caps across Europe. Under the EU Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs programme (C...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and UniCredit Bank Austria (Bank Austria) have signed the first InnovFin SME agreement in Austria, benefiting from the support of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), at the heart of the Investment Plan for Europe . The InnovFin agreement allows B...
Download the Portuguese version The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Banco BPI have signed an agreement to increase lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as Small Mid-caps under InnovFin – EU finance for innovators , an initiative supported by the European Comm...
Guarantee agreement increased to EUR 500m
EUR 300m of additional funds for innovative SMEs in Austria
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and UniCredit Bank Austria are expanding their partnership. An earlier, EUR 200m guarantee agreement from 2016 is now set to be increased to EUR 500m, with ...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Česká spořitelna have signed an agreement to increase lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as small Mid-caps under InnovFin – EU finance for innovators, an initiative supported by the European Commission . The new agreement...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Banco Internacional do Funchal (Banif), Banco Comercial Português (Millennium bcp) and Novo Banco, have signed guarantee agreements to increase lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small mid-caps in Portugal. These are the firs...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Komerční banka have signed an agreement to increase lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as small mid-caps under InnovFin – EU finance for innovators, an initiative supported by the European Commission . The new agreement a...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Bankinter have signed an agreement to increase lending to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as Small Mid-caps under InnovFin – EU finance for innovators, an initiative supported by the European Commission on behalf of the EU. The n...
Mobilising EUR 500m of new funds to support innovative companies in nine CEE countries
Funds will be allocated through nine local banks and six leasing companies
1,300 SMEs are expected to be supported
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and UniCredit have agreed to increase the InnovFin SME gu...
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