The core business of small business finance offers a platform for the provision of numerous other financial services, the most important of which is deposit facilities.
The definition of inclusive business finance also goes beyond exclusively referring to the funding activities of regulated and non-regulated, formal and informal, financial services providers.
The instruments used in inclusive business finance include (but are not necessarily limited to) debt, equity, quasi-equity, grants, insurance, guarantees, development finance and various shared risk instruments and mechanisms.
