UBI Banca and Italiaonline, a large internet company which includes well-known brands such as Libero, Virgilio, Pagine Gialle and Pagine Bianche, team up to support businesses in facing the ever new challenges posed by digitalisation.
UBI Banca and online services for businesses
To support SMEs in the digital arena, UBI Banca offers a range of diversified services. Among these, loans specifically designed to facilitate digitization processes and to contribute to staff training. An example is that of PrestiShop, an innovative loan, repayable in full on expiry or little by little, also through POS collections. In the insurance field, UBI Banca offers the Multi-risk BluImpresa policy which provides Full Digital assistance, in case of problems with printers, computers, smartphones, and tablets. Internet Banking solutions Here UBI Business e Digital Banking Businesses are designed to manage in total autonomy, remotely and without time limits, operations such as: requests for advance invoices, SEPA and Ri.Ba transfers, purchase and sale of securities on the financial markets, open relationships with all Italian banks adhering to the Corporate Interbank Banking. Companies are also offered, thanks to the Virtual POS, the possibility of cashing in securely via the web, avoiding payments on delivery.
The services of Italiaonline
In the context of the partnership, Italiaonline, leader in digital marketing solutions for SMEs, offers a series of services to be found on the web (iOL Connect), present yourself at your best with professional sites (iOL Website), receive traffic and contacts with digital advertising campaigns (iOL Audience) and carry out, upon customer request, communication and digital marketing projects tailored.
Furthermore, for UBI Banca customers, Italiaonline offers 14 hours of free online courses on digital marketing by IAB Italia, by signing a contract.
"UBI Banca's commitment to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises takes concrete form by putting the realities of our territories in a position to seize the challenges and opportunities offered by digital technology", he states Natascia Noveri, Marketing Manager of UBI Banca. “This partnership allows us to combine the products typically offered by the Bank with a series of Italiaonline solutions to accompany both companies that have yet to seize the first opportunities typical of digitization and those that, having already taken the first steps, want to consolidate their presence and its offer in the digital ecosystem being able to count on new channels both for the promotion of its products and services and for direct sales to new customers, potentially all over the world”.
“As a leading group in the Italian digital sector, we believe our primary task is to support national companies in their digitalization process, an essential step to remain on the market today and take full advantage of its possibilities – he declares Michelangelo Tursi, Sales Effectiveness Director of Italiaonline – For years we have been building and promoting the online presence of thousands of companies and giving SMEs the opportunity to access products and services previously reserved only for large companies. Thanks to the support of a partner like UBI Banca, these opportunities are now even closer and easier to grasp so that the digitization of small and medium-sized Italian businesses quickly becomes a concrete reality".
