The DBM provides medium and long-term financing facilities to various sectors of the economy such as agriculture, fishing, tourism, construction, textiles and “other manufacturing”, ICT, biotechnology and transport. The DBM also provides a wide range of specially designed schemes to small and medium enterprises.

The DBM created two new subsidiaries namely, DBM Financial services Limited and DBM Venture Capital Fund Limited. The latter provides seed capital to entrepreneurs in the Information and Communications Technology Sector.