Vice-President Kettel Thomsen’s areas of oversight include the future relationship with the United Kingdom, financing of urban development, housing and social housing, financing of agribusiness and the bioeconomy, evaluation and impact assessment, EIB Institute, EIB Campus, financing operations in Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Romania, European Free Trade Association — EFTA (Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran*, Iraq, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Yemen, financing water, and relations with the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Greece: EIB and HSBC agree EUR 200 million facility for SME’s and midcaps focused on exporting and importing through Trade Finance Facility initiative
Greek companies engaged in international activities will benefit from a new EUR 200 million trade finance partnership between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and HSBC Bank plc announced in Athens on Thursday, in the presence of Yiannis Tsakiris, Deputy Minister of Development and Investment. The initiative will support trade and export finance services provided by participating Greek banks to local companies and addresses a market gap that continues to restrict international business by Greek companies.