A new 120 billion euro financing plan to help companies "carve out an important competitive advantage in the near future". This is how Stefano Barrese, head of the Banca dei Territori division of Intesa Sanpaolo, presents the new financing program for companies 'The your future is our business' of the group. The financing program makes the ceiling available until 2026 to accompany the planning of SMEs, micro-companies, the third sector, agri-food and tourism supply chains. The plan 'Your future is our business' our business' is divided into three directions, 5.0 transition and energy, growth on foreign markets and finally digital development and cybersecurity. The business world "must face a technological, digital, geographical and generational repositioning in a medium-long term logic and "Our role is to activate financial resources and tools dedicated to accompanying investment choices and seizing the opportunities of the Pnrr and Transition 5.0.
We address over 1.2 million customers including SMEs and smaller businesses, for everyone we want to stimulate a relaunch approach towards growth with new means and new shared objectives", underlined Barrese. Through the new program, presented in Milan, the bank intends to accelerate the transformation processes necessary for industrial renewal, energy and digital transition of companies, facilitating their access to the new measures of the Pnrr. The program includes a renewed synergy with Sace and other institutional entities. The new plan also creates Cresci Agri, a new line of financing with a duration of up to 30 years dedicated to the development of production that can be modulated on the production cycle of the relevant supply chain, as well as products for hedging risks on raw materials and ad hoc solutions for energy efficiency and international growth.In the context of the new program, the agribusiness and tourism sectors are particularly relevant, which require specific support in the transition towards more innovative, profitable and sustainable models.
Finally, specific attention is paid to the third sector, which Intesa Sanpaolo supports through a dedicated management with over 600 people who follow around a third of the non-profit entities in Italy, supporting impact companies on development projects and constructive and integrated interaction with the profit world.
Intesa Sanpaolo has already granted loans worth over 1.5 billion to this sector.
"We are launching a great plan that looks at the desire of companies to create the companies of the future", said Anna Roscio, head of corporate sales & marketing at Intesa Sanpaolo.
"A plan aimed at companies of all sizes - she continued -, from micro companies to more structured companies in all sectors,