Guarantees

In accordance with the amendments to the Law on Development Bank of North Macedonia ("Official Gazette of RNM" No. 77/21), the Bank established a separate organizational unit - Guarantee Fund, within the Lending and Commission Work Division. The Guarantee Fund is the pillar of the credit-guarantee scheme through which the private sector is supported, by securing the part of the collateral for loans approved by banks and savings houses.

The Guarantee Fund was established with funds from the Budget of the Republic of North Macedonia, in the amount of EUR 15 million.

The frameworks of the credit-guarantee scheme, the restrictions of the Guarantee Fund, the method of financing, the acceptable loans for guarantee, as well as the notification, are all regulated by the law itself.

There are two guarantee products realized from the Guarantee Fund:

●  Portfolio guarantees to a bank or savings house, for newly approved loans to micro, small and medium traders; 
The maximum guarantee amount is up to 80% of loans classified in A risk category for working capital, up to 50% of loans classified in A risk category for fixed assets and up to 35% of loans classified in B risk category for fixed or working capital.

●  Individual guarantees for large exporting companies (provided that at least 30% of the income in the last fiscal year come from exports), which are guaranteed on behalf of the company to a bank or savings house.
The maximum amount of the guarantee is up to 50% of the loan amount.