Estonia, Dec. 16 -- A range of Estonian businesses will get a financing boost totalling up to €249 million as a result of an agreement between the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group and lender Coop Pank. Both EIB Group institutions - the European Investment Fund (EIF) and the European Investment Bank - are part of the deal, which provides capital relief and enables new lending by Coop Pank to Estonian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Mid-Caps for projects that promote gender equality, economic growth and environmental sustainability.The deal is a synthetic securitisation - a financial structure that allows a bank to transfer part of the credit risk linked to a portfolio of loans to a protection seller, in this case the ...