Credit market development strategic directions for small businesses

The article is devoted to fundamental tools to simplify the access of small businesses to financing. The paper used methods of statistical, graphic, analytical, retrospective research. The author defines the key role of small business in the development of national and global market economies. A retrospective analysis of the share of SME loans in the total volume of lending to legal entities (in rubles) for the period 2010-2019 was carried out. Based on the provisions of the Strategy for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Russian Federation for the period until 2030, strategic directions for the development of the credit market for small businesses in the long term are determined.