(Finance) – “The new plan in 2024 gives continuity to the path started in the last three years. We arrive at this day after the start of the group, which occurred in 2019, and after two years characterized by the pandemic. In this large construction site we could not make the territory lack support, and we are interventions to support the territory with 23.3 billion euros of moratoriums granted and almost 9 billion in loans linked to the liquidity decree. Furthermore, 86% of the loans disbursed in 2021 went to the local area through direct disbursement to families and SMEs “. Giuseppe Maino, president of Iccrea Banca, opening the presentation of the strategic business plan of the BCC Iccrea group, the largest Italian cooperative banking group.
“The three-year period 2019-2021 was of great constructionwith a shipyard that built the new group – he explained – E in the meantime we have also grown. We started with an asset of 155 billion and reached the threshold of 180 billion, confirming our positioning as the fourth Italian banking group. Loans grew, as did asset value. On the other hand, NPLs have regressed “.
“We worked on the industrial front, and in particular on the retail and corporate fronts – said Maino – On the former, work was undertaken to increase the amount of services that the mutual banks can provide to the territory (with partnerships, for example, with Blackrock , Pitagora, Italian strategic fund) We have activated BCC Servizi Assicurativi to strengthen our offer in this area corporate various initiatives and partnerships have been made, especially on the fronts where we are very present such as agribusiness, tourism and sustainability. The historical sensitivity on the ESG front has been expressed with an ad hoc plan on sustainability, which will be renewed in the new plan “.
In the next few years, the BCC Iccrea group intends to “carry forward the mission of accompanying the real economy of the territories, and continue to do so with a sense of solidarity and great attention to the sustainable economy“concluded Maino.