EIF Staff Paper, ‘Securitisation as a means to enhance SME financing and the EIF’s role as a guarantor’

The paper provides an in-depth view on EIF SME securitisations in the context of the own-risk operations. the note is structured as follows: the rationale of securitisation in general, the specific application of securitisation in the area of SME financing, the advantages of securitisation to SMEs and the added value of EIF in such securitisation structures. The note also gives a perspective on current trends as to securitisation in Europe.

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