Dear colleagues,

May I cordially invite you to a SUERF I BAFFI Bocconi webinar: SME Financing: Key findings from the EIF’s new "European Small Business Finance Outlook 2021", which will take place Thursday, 9 December 2021, online from 13:30 to 15:00 CET. For details please see below.

In case you are not able to attend or want further colleagues to also listen in, please feel free to forward this e-mail invitation to interested colleagues. For registration, please use this link.

Kind regards

Ernest Gnan

Prof Dr Ernest Gnan

Secretary General, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum

www.suerf.org

Counsel to the Board and Head, Economic Analysis Division

Oesterreichische Nationalbank

PO box 61, 1011 Vienna, Austria

ernest.gnan@oenb.at

+43 1 40420 7400

Invitation

www.suerf.org

Join us on Thursday, 9th December 2021, for a SUERF BAFFI Bocconi E-Lecture on SME Financing: Key findings from the EIF’s new "European Small Business Finance Outlook 2021", with Helmut Krämer-Eis, Frank Lang and Wouter Torfs, European Investment Fund (EIF).

Rudy Aernoudt, European Commission; Lilas Demmou, OECD and Friederike Koehler-Geib, KfW Bankengruppe, will discuss the results and provide their own perspectives. The discussion will be moderated by Ernest Gnan, OeNB and SUERF.

Topics will include

o SME access to finance going forward

o European private equity market – Where do we stand, what way forward

o SME Green finance and investment – Where do we stand, what way forward

After the presentations there will be time for questions and an interactive discussion.

Link to: EIF Research and Market Analysis, Working Paper 2021/75; The European Small Business Finance Outlook 2021 (pdf)

Date: Thursday, 9 December 2021

Time: 13:30-15:00 CET

Register here

Feel free to share this invitation with colleagues who might be interested to attend!

We look forward to your participation!

SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum
c/o OeNB, Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, A-1090 Vienna
Tel: +43 1 40420 7216 - E-mail: suerf@oenb.at.