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14. Septem­ber 2016

Trends in SME finan­cing: Last year, debt funds succee­ded in main­tai­ning their market share of around 26 percent in the German lever­a­ged finance market, which they had captu­red in 2014. Obviously, the banks can no longer stop the emer­gence of debt funds for SME finan­cing in Germany. They also compete with mezza­nine capi­tal as a finan­cing option. This is of parti­cu­lar inte­rest to compa­nies that are pursuing high growth targets and require a lot of capi­tal for this purpose. 

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