MILANO (ITALPRESS) – Intesa Sanpaolo, through the Banca dei Territori Division, brought together in Milan the small and medium Italian company to relaunch its strategic approach dedicated to extraordinary finance for SMEs, with the aim of speeding up growth to strengthen the competitiveness of the Italian productive fabric in an economic and geopolitical situation in transformation. The Group led by Carlo Messina gives a new impetus to an integrated advisory model, unique in the national scene, which has already recorded significant results. From 2020 for the Pmi Clients of the Division led by Stefano Barrese, or with a turnover of up to 350 million euros, were finalized: structured finance operations for more than 10 billion euros, of which more than 2 billion in the first nine months of 2025; more than 35 operations between M&A and IPO have been completed in recent years. From recent market surveys, he explains a note, it turns out that Italian companies declare to recognize Intesa Sanpaolo as their reference bank on average in more than 60% of the cases. If we look at the most structured companies, and eligible for extraordinary finance operations, this percentage goes up to 90%. A successful model that today addresses more than 6,000 Italian SMEs that have been identified by Intesa Sanpaolo by size and value as potentially ready to take development paths through new operations of extraordinary finance. Determining the collaboration between the Banca dei Territori Divisions and IMI Corporate & Investment Banking (IMI CIB), which guarantees a unique synergy in the sector, aimed at offering Italian financial instruments once reserved only to large industrial groups, to complete extraordinary operations through for example IPO and M&A.The Bank of Territori, which counts 250,000 Pmi customers, has provided 36 billion euros of new credit to families and small and medium Italian companies at 30 September 2025. To make these services accessible, a dedicated structure has been developed, consisting of over 70 Investment Bankers, divided into three territorial teams and five specialist desks (M&A, ECM, Structured Finance, Capital Structure Solutions and Post Closing). Intesa Sanpaolo, we read in a note, “will continue to bring the issues of extraordinary finance on the entire national territory, so that entrepreneurs can increase their awareness and face development paths also through new tools. In 2026 he will start a roadshow dedicated to the new advisory model, together with the continuation of the collaboration with Elite di Euronext, which today has seen more than 500 companies of the Banca dei Territori Division enter the path. “The Italian Pmi face today an uncertain context and know that they have to find innovative development routes, which exceed the horizon of known instruments and look at the extraordinary finance, to new investments, to Stefano M&A Intesa Sanpaolo acts as a bridge between the real economy and finance, accompanying entrepreneurs in the design of the best growth strategies, with a sustainable and long-term approach. The synergies we have among the Group’s divisions allow us to propose the corporate finance dedicated to the small and medium enterprise, in a unique model in the national panorama and consolidating our role in supporting the productive fabric and the country, giving every year about 2 billion euros for this type of operations. Our goal is to make SMEs even more competitive, accompanying growth in a long-term scenario.” The innovative advisory model was at the heart of the debate that took place today at Borsa Italiana’s headquarters, during the meeting “Crescere to compete” with numerous entrepreneurs. Stefano Barrese, Head of Banca dei Territori Division, Gregorio De Felice, Chief Economist, Anna Roscio, Executive Director Sales & Marketing Enterprise, and Andrea Falchetti, Head of Corporate Finance Mid Cap of the IMI CIB Division. After the opening greetings of Fabrizio Testa, CEO of Borsa Italiana, they took part in the work with their corporate testimonies Alessandro Fracassi, Ceo Molteply Group and Mavriq, Luca Ferrari, CEO Bending Spoons, Giovanni Ranieri, Ceo Next Geosolutions Europe, Matteo Moretti, Ceo Lynx, and Massimo Gianolli, Ceo Generalfinance.
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