{"id":343887,"date":"2024-03-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/11\/da-bei-e-banca-ifis-e-300-milioni-per-sostenere-gli-investimenti-innovativi-delle-pmi-e-mid-cap\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T18:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:46:38","slug":"from-eib-and-banca-ifis-300-million-to-support-innovative-investments-by-smes-and-mid-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/11\/from-eib-and-banca-ifis-300-million-to-support-innovative-investments-by-smes-and-mid-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"From EIB and Banca Ifis 300 million to support innovative investments by SMEs and mid-caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The European Investment Bank<\/strong> (EIB) and Banca Ifis<\/strong> have signed an agreement to provide\u00a0\u20ac300 million in\u00a0new finance\u00a0to support innovative 4.0 investments by SMEs and mid-caps.<\/p>\n

The EIB loan to Banca Ifis, with a nominal value of 150 million euros, is designed\u00a0mainly for leasing loans supporting innovative initiatives under the National Transition 4.0 Plan<\/strong>. Under the agreement signed, Banca Ifis will guarantee the disbursement of an additional ceiling\u00a0of the same amount, making 300 million euros available to companies.<\/p>\n

This is the fifth agreement between Banca Ifis and EIB and the first-ever operation by the European Union’s bank with an Italian banking institution dedicated entirely to\u00a0the innovative transition of small and medium-sized enterprises.\u00a0This operation brings the amount of total investment unlocked by the EIB and Banca Ifis over the last four years to 700\u00a0million euros.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Small and medium businesses play a key role in the economy. Besides creating jobs, these businesses tend to invest more in research and development and adopt emerging technologies<\/span>,” says Gelsomina Vigliotti, Vice President of the European Investment Bank<\/strong>. “This operation consolidates our strong relationship with Banca Ifis, helping us facilitate access to finance for small and medium businesses, foster innovation and make the country more competitive<\/span>,” she adds.<\/p>\n

“The fact that a prestigious and dependable institution like the EIB has joined us to launch the first project of its kind is an important acknowledgment of our ability to meet the requirements of businesses needing to speed up the innovation process to remain competitive on international markets<\/span>,” says Ernesto F\u00fcrstenberg Fassio, Chairman of<\/strong> Banca Ifis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The new credit line, with more favorable\u00a0interest rates, can be accessed by both SMEs (companies up to a consolidated workforce of up to 249 employees) and mid-caps (with a consolidated workforce of up to 2.999 employees) wishing to\u00a0 finance investments in innovation or acquire\u00a0innovative goods under the government’s National Transition 4.0 Plan, including for\u00a0financial leasing transactions with a minimum term of 24 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first signed by the European Bank with an Italian lender entirely dedicated to promoting innovation initiatives under the National Transition 4.0 Plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26428,25911,27202],"class_list":["post-343887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bei-en","tag-bank-ifis-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343887"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344798,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343887\/revisions\/344798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}