04/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - EIB loan for small businesses in Spain. On 1 February 2013, the European Investment Bank granted a €50 million loan to the Instituto de Finanzas de Cantabria (ICAF) mainly for financing the investment projects of this Spanish region's small and medium-sized enterprises, but also for local authority investment in small-scale infrastructure projects. At least 70% of the loan will go to small businesses. The loan helps achieve the EIB's objective of making it...