OREANDA-NEWS. August 15, 2012. Seeking to improve SME lending support SME Bank (Vnesheconombank Group) has developed two new credit products: SME - Impetus for banks and SME-Leasing for Manufacturing for leasing companies, reported the press-centre of SME Bank.

SME - Impetus funds are provided to banks under a co-financing condition of not less than 50% of the underlying project. The minimal size of a loan for a partner-bank is RUB 500 million.

“SME support using new products will by far improve lending capacity of our partners: banks and leasing companies.  However we are still focusing on support to SMEs operating in the non-trade sector for the purposes of modernization, innovative development, energy efficiency and resource-saving”, mentioned Olesya Teploukhova, Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board of SME Bank.