SME Corporation will support small businesses in the amount of 60 billion rubles in 2017

Corporation for the development of small and medium business plans in 2017 to give small and medium enterprises of guarantees amounting to 60 billion rubles. "SME Corporation in 2017 plans to provide financial support to small and medium enterprises in the amount of 60 billion rubles for guarantees and sureties. In addition to the standard application selection procedure for the provision of financial assistance, support will be projects aimed at the corporate channel. Their volume in the next year amount to 26.4 billion rubles, which is 45% of the total financial support ", - said the press officer.
Also, according to him, SME Corporation has introduced the use of "enterprise channels" at the beginning of 2016. This program provides for the selection of priority projects in the sphere of small and medium-sized businesses in different regions of Russia to the credit of not less than 200 million rubles, with support from the regional authorities, the relevant federal agencies and public organizations.
"The volume of guarantees issued by the new mechanism in 2016 amounted to 1.72 billion rubles of the total planned amount of 30 billion rubles," - the source said.
SME Corporation was founded in June 2015 as a development institution in the field of small and medium-sized businesses.