According to the press service of SME Corporation, Russian small and medium-sized enterprises in the IT sector received a loan of 8.6 billion rubles in the six months of 2023, thanks to state support under the National Guarantee System (NGS).
According to the data of SME Corporation, the operator of the NGS, the figures for 2023 are three times higher compared to the same period of 2022, when such state support was 2.84 billion rubles.
In the first 6 months of 2023, small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the field of computer software development, consulting and other related services in this field (OKVED 62), earned over 8 billion rubles with NGS tools.
In addition, SMEs operating in the field of information technologies (OKVED 63) have drawn a total of 592 million rubles in the first half of 2023, thanks to NGS tools. This is 9% of the total amount of loans given to SMEs in this region as it was a year ago.
“Expanding support for IT businesses, mostly small and medium-sized businesses, is one of the priority areas of government policy. The state is engaged in ensuring independence from foreign IT products by supporting them, and the importance of this became even more evident after the imposition of sanctions against our country,” said Alexander Isaevich, Managing Director of SME Corporation.
Recall that the National Guarantee System, run by the SME Agency, helps entrepreneurs get bank financing with the help of guarantees and sureties in case of lack or insufficient collateral. The national guarantee system operates within the framework of the national project “Small and Medium Enterprises”, the implementation of which was supervised by the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey Belousov.