Financial instruments for business expansion

Operational Programme for the Economical Growth for 2007–2013 (Support to business and improvement of environment for business)
 (Financial engineering and related instruments for SMEs in Lithuania)

Financial engineering is a means to use the national or EU Structural Funds resources by providing financing to SMEs not as one-off non-repayable grants but as soft loans for business development, venture capital investments, guarantees provided to banks for loans of SMEs, etc. The advantage of such instruments resides in repayable investments, i.e. the lent or invested contributions to financial engineering instruments are repaid and may again be used for the same purposes thus supporting a greater number of SMEs.

Financial engineering and related instruments which are being implemented in Lithuania:

 

 

Last date edited: 2012-04-30