OREANDA-NEWS. June 22, 2009. The Russian Bank for Development that implements government SME lending support program is continuing to introduce new credit products. Thus the Bank has entered into a "pilot" loan agreement with OOO UK Micro-finance Centre (Kazan), reported the press-centre of RBD.

UK Micro-finance Centre’s core business is extending micro loans for set up and development new business initiatives of SMEs and micro businesses.

According to the agreement the end-users of the funds shall be micro and small enterprises in the regions. The regional representatives of the Micro-finance Center are present in over 100 Russian cities.