(Finance) – Intesa Sanpaolo launches the digital platform “Incent Now” and implements the business support And Italian entities interested in National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) with the purpose of support the real economy: more than 400 billion euros of new medium-long term loans are available, of which 270 in favor of the business world.
The Bank – the note reads – has created cross-functional teams dedicated to PNRR initiatives, involving all the internal skills of the Group, primarily those of the IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division directed by Mauro Micillo and the Banca dei Territori Division headed by Stefano Barrese. The goal is to provide full support to companies and organizations to fully seize the opportunities of the PNRR with an offer of dedicated products and services.
Incent Now, the result of collaboration with Deloitte, will be made available free of charge to all customers. The digital platform will be constantly updated with information relating to measures and calls made public by national and European institutional bodies in the context of PNRR planning. Each client will be able to quickly identify the best opportunities on the basis of his profile, his sector of activity and his territory and collect useful information to present their investment projects by competing forThe allocation of public funds.
In the belief that the PNRR measures can be a stimulus for investments by companies of all sizes in a logic of modernization of the country and recovery of competitiveness, Intesa Sanpaolo will make available dedicated loans which, combined with public resources, will allow the realization of large and transformative projects. In line with the provisions of the 2022-2025 Business Plan, particular attention will be paid toinvestments dedicated to sustainable infrastructures, energy and digital transition, growth of start-ups, the third sector, female and youth entrepreneurship and interventions for the development of the South.
“With Incent Now our customers will be able to find on a single free digital platform useful and detailed information relating to Next Generation calls” – he says Mauro Micillo, Chief of the IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division of Intesa Sanpaolo. “Incent Now will be a further tool for the benefit of our clients for the use of PNRR resources and will allow us to better support them with ad hoc financial instruments, thanks to an approach aimed at their specific needs”.
“We have developed the new platform to disseminate the Government’s measures in the context of the Next Generation and make them accessible to companies, in our case, to over 1,200,000 SMEs and micro-enterprises that are customers of Banca dei Territori, including around 800 supply chains” – declares Stefano Barrese, Head of Intesa Sanpaolo’s BDT Division. “For these realities, the Bank will act, through Incent Now, as a transmission chain to allow everyone to identify the most suitable call for proposals, supporting companies with the products and services that the Group and its partners can implement from time to time. Our goal is to connect the major projects of the program with the network of Italian SMEs, which is essential for strengthening the production system “.
Intesa Sanpaolo will offer customers who use Incent Now a wide range of solutions, including types insurance and training, facilitating the advance of grants, the purchase of tax credits, the sureties necessary for participation in tenders and the use of financial instruments to supplement the incentives.
Not only. In support of companies and entities that need to be accompanied in the preparation and management of calls for tenders to obtain the funds envisaged by the PNRR, Intesa Sp will provide the advice of qualified and professional partners, profound connoisseurs of the world of subsidized finance, and professional services to companies and PA, such as ForValue and Deloitte.