Among the various tools to support the productive fabric, severely tested by the Covid-19 emergency, there is the initiative of Banca IFIS (based in Mestre) and the Veneto regional finance company Veneto Sviluppo: the two parties have signed an agreement For facilitate access to credit for smaller local businesses. The bank led by Luciano Colombini has also always specialized in factoring, boasting a solid link with the entrepreneurial world of the North-East, especially SMEs. The expertise in the local area, in addition to the credit capacity, will certainly be useful to the Veneto companies, which are having a hard time restarting after the forced stop.
“We want to give an immediate response – he commented Luciano Colombini, CEO of Banca Ifis – to the Veneto production system. We are the local bank and will do whatever it takes to support the economy and businesses of this region. We are therefore renewing today the partnership with Veneto Sviluppo, with which we have had a solid collaboration for some time which sees us and will see us alongside the regional finance company also in other projects, ready to support new measures. As per our practice, we are now committed to guaranteeing streamlined and fast processes to offer SMEs rapid and adequate support".
“Together with the Veneto Region – he added Fabrizio Spagna, President of Veneto Sviluppo Spa – we are carrying out extraordinary measures in direct support of businesses in our area, to stem the effects of Covid and thus allow them to be reorganized and relaunched. We are certain that the subsidies and the huge interventions put in place can be even more extensive, targeted and effective if serious and solid partners are at our side, as Banca Ifis has demonstrated, which has been able to better grasp the current needs of the territory and of local SMEs, concretely and immediately financing the economic recovery of the Veneto with us".
With this partnership, Banca Ifis strengthens and integrates the various activities already implemented since the beginning of the pandemic: full adherence to the Cura Italia and Liquidità ministerial decrees, with over 18 requests for a moratorium approved; subsidized credit lines created ad hoc for client companies that have converted or upgraded part of their processing lines to produce technical and medical material related to the emergency; provision of liquidity to pharmacies in the event of closure due to Covid-19, as well as leasing and rental solutions to facilitate the restart of companies in Phase 2. In particular: leasing or rental of temperature monitoring equipment, such as thermoscanners , or for air monitoring/filtering.
