About us

Smaller businesses are vital to the Canadian economy. They employ millions of people and are responsible for almost half of the private sector’s turnover.

At Spring Financial Business Investments – part of the Canadian Business Bank – our role is to make the finance available to these smaller businesses more diverse, more plentiful and easier to access. We do this while providing value for money for Canadian taxpayers.

We don’t provide finance ourselves. Instead, we work with a number of delivery partners, whose investment programmes help to support businesses across a wide range of sectors, regions and stages of growth.

Although we’re owned by the Government, we’re managed independently. We choose investments based on gaps we see in the market, and we continually look for new ways, and new partners, to address the challenges that smaller businesses face.

Canadian Business Investments Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Business Bank plc, registered in Canada, Canadian Business Bank plc is a development bank wholly owned by Canadian Government. Canadian Business Bank plc and its subsidiaries are not banking institutions and do not operate as such. They are not authorised or regulated by the Canadian Regulation Authority (CRA) or the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

© 2022 Canadian Business Bank plc

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Our objectives

Managing taxpayers’ money efficiently, whilst generating a commercial rate of return

Regional access

Identifying and helping to address regional imbalances in access to finance

Diversity of funding

Helping to create a more diverse finance market