Sustainable, quality growth

WHERE WE ARE – 6M 2024 Results

SIMEST offers support for special events, strategic markets and new segments
  • Measures for Africa: special conditions for businesses exporting and importing commodities and that invest in the digital transition, sustainability, training and employing local staff

  • Special Measures:new, non-repayable loans to cover direct damage to property and damage arising from loss of income, for businesses in Tuscany affected by the flooding in November 2023.

  • Start-ups and innovative SMEs:new operations for approximately €4 million approved, thanks to resources of the Venture Capital Fund, managed under a special agreement with the Foreign Office.

  • Agreement signed with the EIB: over €90 million to promote the international expansion of Italian businesses

    • Increasingly extensive commercial action:
  • +30% in the volume of equity investmentmanaged by SIMEST and by the Venture Capital Fund for a total of ~approximately €80 million

  • Systemic cooperation strengthened through agreements with the Regions and new roadshows
     throughout Italy and for businesses in partnership with leading trade associations
    • New territorial hubs:
    • a third, international hub opened in Vietnam as a point of reference for Italian businesses with interests in Southeast Asia, following on from the hubs in Serbia and Egypt

    SIMEST’s main KPIs for 2025 include:

    18.5 billion Resources deployed for 2023-2025
    +20% Resources deployed for 2023-2025/2020-2022
    +57% Resources deployed CAGR 2022-2025
    10+ Banking agreements
    5 International offices
    +30% Relationship Managers

    4 lines of action

    Developing the commercial offering

    • Consolidating the SIMEST network to be closer to companies
    • Commercial plan shared with CDP
    • System cooperation with institutional players and structured collaboration with the banking system

     
    Developing the Equity Investments offering

    • A new Investment Policy with a focus on investments that have an impact on the territory
    • The best economic conditions to increase the share of soft loans

     
    Innovation in managing public funds

    • Loan reviews including from a digital and green perspective, also extended to production chains
    • Ad hoc measures for strategic markets
    • 200 million for the international expansion of start-ups and innovative SMEs

     
    Launch of the new advisory service for international expansion

    • Strategic advice on main foreign markets, coordinating with the institutional system, facilitating access to the local network
    • The opening of 5 international hubs, in the Balkans (the 1st opening in Belgrade), Africa, the US, South America and Southeast Asia

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    Impact on the territory and on ESG matters
    The digital transition and operating efficiency
    People and a corporate culture