Using nearly €25 billion in guarantees, the EGF enables the EIB and the European Investment Fund (EIF) to quickly make loans, guarantees, asset-backed securities, equity and other financial instruments available, mostly to small and medium-sized enterprises. The EGF is part of the European Union's recovery package aiming to provide a total of €540 billion to boost those parts of the EU economy that have been hit the worst. UniCredit is a successful pan-European commercial bank with a fully plugged-in corporate and investment banking (CIB) arm, delivering a unique Western, Central and Eastern Europe network to its extensive and growing client franchise. UniCredit offers both local and international expertise to its clients, providing them with unparalleled access to leading banks in its 13 core markets through its European banking network: Italy, Germany, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.