(Finance) – UniCredit wins four prizes at the MF Banking Awards 2022, the annual event organized by Milano Finanza to reward leading companies in the financial sector in Italy. The awards, from the Class Editori group, were assigned during the awards ceremony, organized on Thursday 31 March.
I’m three UniCredit Group projects awarded during the MF Innovazione Awards, awarded by MF-Milano Finanza in collaboration with Accenture: Road to Social Change, Credit Express Dynamic Instant lending And Steppy by buddybank. The Bank also obtained the Guido Carli Elite award for Best ESG Rating
Road to Social Change, in the category: ESG Banking – This is a training course, promoted by the Banking Academy of ESG Italy UniCredit in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano (Tiresia / MIP), AICCON, the Italian Accenture Foundation, and TechSoup, created to support and enhance all subjects operating in the Third Sector. The Project has facilitated the growth of managerial, social and digital skills of those who deal with social issues in the territory and in the communities that inhabit it, focusing attention on the actors of the Third Sector which plays a leading role in the growth of the country . The initiative, which involved 1500 people, included: 7 National Talks, 14 Territorial Seminars, an on-demand content library and trained 170 Social Change Manager, the new professional figure launched by the project and whose skills are certified by MIP ( Graduate School of Business of the Politecnico di Milano).
Best ESG Rating – MF Guido Carli Elite – UniCredit obtained the best rating among Italian banks from Standard Ethics, an agency specializing in ESG ratings, based on the principles of sustainability promoted by the UN, the OECD and the European Union. For UniCredit, sustainability is part of its DNA because the bank has a well-defined social purpose, that of supporting and strengthening individuals, businesses and communities, thus helping people to live the life they want to live. Our goal is to accompany customers in the processes of social change and towards the green transition, thanks to a long-term sustainability strategy, to provide communities, as our purpose states, with the levers for progress. For this reason, UniCredit will continue to take concrete actions to further integrate ESG factors into the bank’s main activities. It is the first Italian bank to have a Corporate Governance, Nomination and Sustainability Committee (CGN & S) to support the Board of Directors, which also carries out supervisory functions on sustainability issues within our organization.
Credit Express Dynamic Instant Lending, in the category: Loans to private customers – Credit Express Dynamic Instant Lending, is a new E2E digital instant loan solution, intended for non-customers, which provides for evaluation and immediate disbursement through Open Banking solutions. The loan subscriber can choose how to authenticate: SPID is one of the proposed solutions. The data necessary for the assessment of creditworthiness are collected through open banking solutions and the feedback to the customer is in real time with contextual, in the event of a positive assessment, instant money transfer.
Steppy by buddybank, in the category: Open Innovation – Steppy is the Wealth Management service created exclusively by Moneyfarm and with the advisory of BlackRock, exclusively for buddybank customers. The product was developed from an Open Banking perspective, suitable for a quinone expert in finance who wants support for his investments. The product was created specifically for buddybank customers (average age 30 years), with a reduced minimum investment amount (2,500 euros), with the possibility of activating an accumulation plan and with advantageous commissions. There are 5 wallets to choose from and all the lines offered by Moneyfarm are optimized from an ESG perspective thanks to BlackRock’s advisory.