Export Development Guarantee

Find out about our Export Development Guarantee: its benefits, eligibility criteria and how to apply.

Our Export Development Guarantee (EDG) helps companies who export from, or plan to export from the UK, access high value loan facilities for general working capital or capital expenditure purposes. We can provide support for finance provided by a commercial lender, which does not need to be linked to a specific export contract.

We can provide partial guarantees covering up to 80% of the risk to lenders for a maximum repayment period of up to 5 years, or up to 10 years if the loan is to develop clean growth exports such as renewable energy.

The EDG can also support companies in the UK supplying critical minerals or products containing them to UK exporters. Further information on the Critical Goods EDG is included below.

We can consider transactions from a minimum of £25 million. The average value of EDG transactions is expected to be between £100 million and £500 million.

The guarantees we can provide for each transaction will usually support lending in GBP, but lending in US dollars, Euros or Japanese Yen may also be considered.

EDG provides additional capacity to support the private market on high value transactions.

The benefits of our EDG for UK exporters include:

All transactions supported by UKEF must satisfy our:

There are two sets of criteria which can be applied, depending on the amount of the applicant’s exporting activity.

Applicants must pass an Exporter Test which is the requirement that either: