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Joint Initiative (private and public) SME Finance for Europe Improving SME Access to Finance with a Digital Pan-European infrastructure Platform

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Joint Initiative (private and public)SME Finance for Europe

Improving SME Access to Finance with a DigitalPan-European infrastructure Platform

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Lack of finance leads to general reluctance with respect to investments 

Bank’s SME lending has decreased due  to efficiency hurdles, regulatory burdens and processing inefficiencies

Structural changes within banks ( and branch closures )  have led to lack of confidence with corporate entities 

Strong dependency on traditional “ house “ banks

Lack of transparency  on  lending and financing markets  specially for smaller SME‘s

High expenditure by SME’s  in seeking suitable financing  solutions

Interest rates and margins generally high in Southern European countries

Banks increasingly finance only part of the required funding; lack of finance combinations with other financing instruments

Public and subsidized lending programs remain intransparent, overly complex and time consuming

Quality of loan applications often insufficient to enable financial institutions to complete a reliable credit quality assesment; lack of standardisation of requirements with respect to  financial data and documents

Generally, SME‘s have no access to cross‐border financing and lack information to find suitable alternative lenders

Problem of Access to Finance for SMEs

Lack of SME Access to Finance has been an acknowledged problem for years: 

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Banks have generally reduced their overall lending volumes due to structural, regulatory and internal challenges

Banks have become more risk aware and tend to finance only secured loans. Risk sharing has increased among banks, leading to processing challenges

Banks tend to finance only larger volume loans due to inefficiencies in processing small SME loans (branch network costs, loan processing costs)

Increased importance of alternative ( e.g. asset‐based finance ) lenders and platforms (crowdfunding und P2P) 

Quality of loan applications often insufficient to enable fast decisions, financial data and documents supplied often lack depth and quality

Cross‐border loan financing is virtually impossible in  light of the required distribution and marketing efforts required to find suitable SME corporates that match lenders‘ individual financing strategy

Impaired Access to SMEs for Lenders

... but the flip side of the coin is “Access to SMEs”: 

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SMEs are seeking an easy,  practical and dependable way to find the right financial partner(s) within a single application 

Financial institutions and alternative lenders seek an easy, efficient and reliable means to find the right SME companies that match their financing strategy

A digital Pan‐European finance platform connects

A multitude of public information portals exist;  however, these are all independent, unlinked, not  easily accessible and hence rarely offer significant practical added value to SMEs

The digital inclusion of professional support (accountants, auditors, tax advisors etc.) will improve the quality of loan applications and supporting financial data

The concept of a multi‐lingual, Pan‐European Platform will enable European cross‐border SME finance.

Added Value of a Pan-European SME Finance Infrastructure

One Stop Shop

Access to SMEs

Access to Finance Access to SMEs

Inefficiencies and lack of access to the right partners can be remedied: 

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Infrastructure Platform to Improve SME Access to Finance

Access‐to‐Financefor SME’s

SME EUROHUBPlatform operated by 

FINPOINT

Access2FinanceEC Information platform

Access to SMEfor LendersStrong motivation on the part of lenders 

for an easy, controlled and cost‐efficient access to SME’s 

PublicLenders

PrivateLenders

EIB

ICO

European Commission

KfW

Bpifrance AWS

Banks

Leasing

Factoring

SpecialFinanceSpecialFinance

Crowd FundingCrowd Funding

Peer  to Peer  to Peer

BusinessAssociations

FinnveraNEFIBusiness Bank

Business Bank

Asset‐based lending

The vision for SME Eurohub is a pan‐European concerted effort integrating 

all private and public institutions involved in SME financing

SME Eurohub will seek to implement co‐operation with each of the national 

Chambers of Commerce and Associations

EIB/EIF

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The infrastructure is open for all market participants to assure neutrality and non‐discrimination 

The Master platform of the Initiative is a digital One Stop Shop Infrastructure combiningAccess to Finance with Access to SMEs

One data room for SMEs to reach many financial institutions and platforms (peer to peer and crowdfunding) simultaneously ( Platform can handle 4,000 applications per second )

Matchmaking tool

All types of common public and private financial instruments are supported

No limitation for SMEs and lenders

Lenders set filters to find the ”right“ SME for their lending strategy

High quality of loan applications by digitally  introducing accountants and other advisers into the financing applications   

Combination of financial instruments (e.g. bank loan /crowdfunding or bank loan /mezzanine funding)

Cross border finance (multi‐lingual and multi currency)

USP of an Operator-dr iven Finance Plat form

FINPOINT is not a „Peer to Peer Platform, nor a „Crowfunding Platform“ and not a direct lender

FINPOINT is the operating instrument for the Initiative „Finance for Europe“

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SME EUROHUB

SME Finance Matching Platform

Proposal for the Initial Platform

France Italy Spain Czech RepNetherlands Belgium Portugal

SME’s

Legal Entities

Max. € 50 mn. turnover & < 250 employees

All industry sectors

Authenticated

FinancingInstitutions

Private Banks Public Lenders  (e.g. 

EIB, KfW, ICO etc.) Specialist Financers EU‐Passport!

All languages

Full pan‐ European access, subject to nationalfinancial regulation and framework

Financing Scope:

Overdraft Facilities Working Capital Facilities Mortgage and Asset secured 

Finance ‐ ‐ ‐ all traditional  financing

... including public and subsidized lending

National subsidized finance programs Pan‐European subsidized 

lending + development loans Grants

One‐Stop‐Shop

Online guided information drilldown into national & pan‐European finance programs

Automatic links to finance requests

No Fees for SME’s

IrelandPolande.g.

Scope to be extended in a 2nd step

Germany UK Austria

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The platform is proposed  to be the core of a Public‐Private‐Partnership for the provision of a digital financial infrastructure. The PPP‐concept (preliminary name “SME Eurohub”) would involve a collaboration between all private and public market participants.

FINPOINT  proposes a PPP‐structure for a Europe‐wide SME financial access platform

Proposed Structure

SME Eurohub PlatformPan‐European Finance 

MatchmakingSMEsEuropean Lenders

Public Institutions 

Broad roll‐out support from Business Associations

FINPOINT (Operator)

SME access to finance

Lender access to SME

EBA/ECB:SME loan standardisation 

initiative, SME ABS

SME loan standardisation initiative

Suggested from 

to benefitinitiatives 

(partly) owners   or  Cooperation/Initiative 

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Milestones Scope Description Date

Go‐Live   Initially 8 EU countries, suggested to be UK, Germany, France, Italy,  Spain, Austria, Netherlands and Poland. Q3 2015

Access2FinanceLink to information sharing portals like the EC “Access2Finance” platform  with guided links and information panels at all stages within the SME Eurohub platform.

Q4 2015

Enable Cross‐border transactions

Single, uniform database structure with cross‐border financing from EU lenders subject to applicable country regulatory provisions. Q4 2015

Full scope asset‐based lending

Full integration of dedicated asset‐based finance solutions including leasing types, factoring and forfaiting Q4 2015

Public/subsidized Finance (EIB, KfW, Bpifrance etc.)

Integrated approach for individual public lending  & risk sharing with approval process both by the local bank and the public lender,  facilitated  within a specialised public lending module.

Q4 2015

Guided and integrated access to public finance

Public and subsidized lending programs covered in the Access2Finance platform to be fully integrated in SME Eurohub, allowing for a direct  “one‐click strategy”  to access special programs.

Q4 2015

Roll‐out full scope EU28  countries

Roll‐out of the remaining 18 countries in local language covering the full scope as indicated above

As of Q1 2016

Suggested Next Act ions