The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided a EUR 150m intermediated loan to the Bulgarian Development Bank AD to finance small and medium-scale projects promoted by SMEs and midcaps in Bulgaria.
This is the first EIB transaction in Bulgaria’s public sector benefiting from the support of the EU budget guarantee under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the financing component of the Investment Plan for Europe.
EIB Director for lending operations in Central and South-Eastern Europe Flavia Palanza stated: “This is the first EFSI public sector project in Bulgaria. It combines EFSI financing with private sector involvement to improve the access SME and midcap companies have to long-term finance under [...]