EIB Advisory support in 2025
- Support included tailored guidance on project preparation, feasibility studies, market assessments and regulatory analysis, and designing policies, frameworks and investment vehicles to improve market access for companies and investors.
- This covered the development and use of financial instruments, risk-sharing structures, blended finance solutions and green and social bonds, mobilising private capital and scaling up sustainable investments.
- EIB Advisory also helped financial intermediaries, investment funds and public institutions build skills.
- This support expanded access to retail and institutional investors, scaling up equity funds, increasing the use of securitisations and promoting the adoption of transition finance classifications and simplified green label criteria to stimulate sustainable financing.
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Croatia to get EIB guidance on promoting capital markets and business innovation
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will offer policy guidance to Croatia on becoming a regional hub for financial technologies and capital markets. Under a new advisory agreement with Croatia’s Ministry of Finance, the EIB will support plans to turn the country into a fintech leader. In a parallel move, the EIB plans to advise Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovation and Investments HAMAG-BICRO on helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as startups enhance their investment readiness and gain access to early-stage finance. The advisory support is funded by the InvestEU Advisory Hub programme.