Banca Ifis doubles its presence in Emilia Romagna: a new business branch in Parma

Banca Ifis focuses on Emilia-Romagna and doubles its presence in the region. After the Bologna branch, the Bank chooses Parma, the small Paris of the Po Valley, for the opening of a new territorial unit. Two new credit advisors have already been hired but the goal is to strengthen the team over the next few months. Banca Ifis, which has 80,000 client companies throughout Italy, reads a note, has over 7,000 operating customers in Emilia-Romagna, approximately 9% of the total. The group, active in specialty finance, accompanies small and medium-sized enterprises in all financial needs with a complete portfolio of products and services: factoring, leasing, medium and long-term financing, structured finance, advisory, equity investment. Thanks to an omnichannel approach, which enhances people’s skills but above all the relationship and bond of trust, the Bank has been able to accelerate digitalization by incorporating technology into processes along the entire value chain, from customer onboarding to full digital management. “With its industrial ecosystem, districts and around 400,000 active companies, Emilia Romagna is a strategic region that Banca Ifis wants to oversee even more ‘closely’ – explains Raffaele Zingone, co-general manager of Banca Ifis -. of a new branch in Parma is an important step in our growth project. Recovery is possible and as a Bank we must contribute effectively to supporting companies, establishing an open and direct dialogue with entrepreneurs, listening to them to understand the real prospects of business and solve the complexity. Only in this way will it be possible to implement a real restart “. The data of a dynamic region. According to the Market Watch SME report, carried out by Banca Ifis on a significant sample of companies based in Emilia-Romagna, the note reads, 45% of companies in the region continued to invest in the two-year period 2020-2021 despite Covid; and the percentage is set to rise to 49% by 2023. Bank financing still plays a significant role in supporting investments and is now used by 44% of the SMEs interviewed. Over the next two years, entrepreneurs from Emilia-Romagna will focus above all on the development of digital technologies to renew the offer of products and services. But also the sustainability and management of the relationship with customers remain central in the allocation of resources: two objectives on which the companies of the region are positioned above the national average.