. This paper provides an overview of the drivers of the stagnation of bank lending in Europe and discuss four main areas of … opportunity for mitigating potential bank lending constraints: the further development of direct capital market financing …

credit crunch. Evidence of an increased sovereign-bank nexus highlights risks to macro-financial stability, especially as …

Using newly collected data from the EIB Bank Lending Survey, carried out by the EIB with support from the Central Bank … of Jordan, this report focuses on cyclical and structural aspects of corporate and SME lending, and investigates the …

This study was prepared for the European Investment Bank (EIB). The objective of the study is to assess the financing … available to the EIB in Russia, the study also examines the needs for risk-bearing instruments as well as SME loan guarantees …

are constraining the development of the SME sector. In addition the study addresses the funding needs of the … intermediaries that specialize in SME financing and examines the potential for different types of financial products including equity …