Year in Review
This past year has seen the EIF mobilise more than €134bn for the European economy, making it our second most ‘productive’ year in terms of commitments. But the numbers only tell part of the story, as the essence of our work lies in the impact behind them: improved competitiveness, support for innovative entrepreneurs, social impact, greater sustainability and support for the green transformation.
One of our recurring objectives is to branch out further and open new channels of cooperation in an effort to make sure that financing is made as accessible as possible to European businesses. This year’s story says exactly that. 2023 saw us collaborate with many new intermediaries, as one third of this year’s partners are new. It also saw significant growth in our securitisation work, reaching €3bn in commitments this year, and developing into a very useful tool for generating fresh loan portfolios with a very green colour to add even more weight to our collective sustainability efforts. And our work with national and regional authorities exploded to €4.2bn, including ETCI, coming over and above our InvestEU efforts - InvestEU remains the main driver of our activity at 39%. This year has also seen significant progress on the path to a gender-balanced economy, with more than €1.6bn committed to partners that meet the InvestEU gender criteria, turning commitments and goals into real action.
Going forward, we will continue to work with the EIB, the European Commission and the Member States to make financing more readily available to Europe’s ambitious entrepreneurs, targeting key sectors and industries to ensure that European sovereignty and competitiveness are secured and that the economy is fuelled for its drive to a greener, digital and more inclusive future.

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