{"id":432342,"date":"2025-07-14T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/07\/14\/bei-e-mediobanca-a-fianco-delle-microimprese-e-dellimprenditoria-femminile-con-200-milioni-di-euro-di-nuova-finanza\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:40:17","slug":"eib-and-mediobanca-make-200-million-euro-available-in-new-financing-for-micro-enterprises-and-women-led-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/14\/eib-and-mediobanca-make-200-million-euro-available-in-new-financing-for-micro-enterprises-and-women-led-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"EIB and Mediobanca make 200 million euro available in new financing for micro-enterprises and women-led businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; <span lang=\"IT\">The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Mediobanca have signed a new EUR 100 million agreement aimed at improving access to credit for Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a <strong>particular focus on micro enterprises, female-led entrepreneurs, and those active in cohesion regions<\/strong>.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Gelsomina Vigliotti, EIB Vice-President<\/strong>, and <strong>Emanuele Flappini, Chief Financial Officer of the Mediobanca Group<\/strong>, signed the EUR 100m contract. It&nbsp;is the first-ever agreement between the EIB and Mediobanca in which Mediobanca\u2019s subsidiary, Compass Banca, will primarily intermediate the funds. It is estimated that the EIB\u2019s funding will help unlock up to 200 million euros of new finance for the real economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"IT\">The resources made available by Mediobanca will be deployed in the form of <strong>new loans on favorable terms<\/strong> to boost&nbsp;the competitiveness of beneficiary enterprises and foster&nbsp;new investments. Of the total financed in favor of Italian SMEs, <strong>60 percent of the funds will be reserved for micro-enterprises, i.e., companies with fewer than 10 employees, while 20 percent will go to companies led by women&nbsp;or projects promoting gender equality. <\/strong>There will be particular attention on companies operating in central and southern Italy, in the cohesion regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span lang=\"IT\">Supporting access to credit for microenterprises, female-led entrepreneurs, and businesses operating in less developed regions of Italy means investing in the future of the country. Inclusion and territorial development are two key pillars of the EIB\u2019s investment strategy: no real growth can prosper unless it is equally distributed, and no innovation exists if whole regions or segments of the working population are excluded,<b>&#8221; Vigliotti <\/b>said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"IT\">&#8220;Promoting the growth of Italian companies has always been our goal, a commitment that has gradually adapted to the changing needs of today\u2019s economy, which now mostly comprises small and medium-sized businesses. We are therefore delighted to begin this collaboration with the European Investment Bank,&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><span lang=\"IT\">Flappini&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"IT\">emphasized.<\/span><\/span><b><u><span lang=\"IT\"><\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement aims to unlock up to EUR 200 million in new finance for the real economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229478,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","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"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26428,25911,31586],"class_list":["post-432342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bei-en","tag-mediobanca-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432342","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=432342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432343,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432342\/revisions\/432343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}