Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland says cash will facilitate ‘growing demand’

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland has given loans to 8,619 SMEs since March 2015

Loan uptake from Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland ‘gathering momentum’

Lender is to distribute some €75m in loans to small and medium-sized companies

Six further deals worth €200m expected to close in coming weeks

Funding will be made available to businesses at a variable interest rate of 4.5 per cent

Fund provides specialist contract hire facilities with terms of 3 to 4 years

Initiative provides funding for equipment, machinery and vehicle finance

The SBCI is hoping to kick-start lending to SME sector via cheap loans

Backed by Euro bucks, the SBCI is Ireland’s big bid to get banks lending to businesses. It’s boss says they’ll be watching closely

State-backed bank will channel €400m into sector via AIB and BoI

Are low levels of lending to SMEs a reflection of limited demand for credit rather than lack of supply?

Euro politics is probably behind the KfW move

Minister says while banks provide working capital, they typically want loans repaid in three or five years

Minister says while banks provide working capital, they want loans repaid in three or five years

Irish and German governments sign off on deal giving €800 million to strategic bank

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland launches in Dublin

Cantillon: Berlin can bark, but will it bite?

Minister tells Templemore she wants depleted force to number above 13,000