Additional funding of €450m secured for SMEs

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

Loans to small businesses from State-run SBCI doubled this year

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

Small businesses draw down €172m in low cost funding

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

Ulster Bank approved by SBCI to offer low-cost loans

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

Strategic fund invests €613m in 2015

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

AIB secures another €200m from SBCI to lend to businesses

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

SBCI introduces €25m fleet finance fund for SMEs

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

New €50m financing programme announced for SMEs

Initiative provides funding for equipment, machinery and vehicle finance

AIB says over €60m in credit given under SBCI fund

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

'If the money isn’t used the way we expect it to be used, we’ll take it back'

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

New banking initiative to cut up to 2% off loans to SMEs

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

Germany’s interest in Irish business

We need to boost credit demand and supply for SMEs

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

Bank policies limit small firms’ growth, says Noonan

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

We need German banking expertise not money

Euro politics is probably behind the KfW move

Bank policies limit small firms’ growth, says Noonan

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

Cheap small business loans get green light

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

Initial €800m SME loan fund to help boost sector

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland launches in Dublin

German officials mystified by inaction on Irish corporate tax rate

Cantillon: Berlin can bark, but will it bite?

Fitzgerald to seek Budget funds for Garda recruitment

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

Economist hails potential of public development banks for Ireland

Financial expert cites positive work funded by development banks in developing economies

German loan likely to include SME clause

New Irish corporation SBCI, on receiving global loan, will lend to commercial banks

New State bank to pump €500m into credit-starved SME sector

The Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland will be funded by Germany and the EU

State to provide funds to boost credit for SMEs

Loans will be offered over periods of longer than 10 years

Dismal record proves need for State-backed lender

Business Opinion: strategic Investment Fund ripe for rethink

Ulster will be streamlined despite RBS lack of specifics

Ulster Bank staff must be dreading Thursday

Cantillon: Angela Merkel comes bearing gifts for Irish SMEs

German bank KfW is waiting to hear in detail what funding the Irish want, when they want it and how

Noonan admits bailout exit decision was ‘finely balanced’

Minister for Finance speaking in Dáil ahead of a vote on Government’s go it alone strategy

No Irish names in world’s ‘top 50 safest banks’

German bank KFW tops the table

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