The Moscow Regional Guarantee Fund and Center-invest Bank signed a cooperation agreement. The new partnership empowers the bank to finance and support small and medium-sized businesses by enabling customers to arrange loans and guarantees under the fund’s guarantee.

Center-invest Bank’s Moscow office provides companies and individual entrepreneurs with comprehensive cash management services and small business lending programmes, including preferential loans, and financing for setting up new businesses and purchasing business property.

Center-invest Bank began its activity in 1992. Today, it is the largest regional bank in southern Russia, implementing a sustainable banking business model. In 2021, Center-invest Bank was ranked 11th among the country’s largest SME lenders. The bank introduces innovative products and services, offers fair loan rates, and successfully localises ESG principles in Russia.