ROMA (ITALPRESS) – SACE, the Italian Export Credit Agency participated by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, presents SACE50, the Strategic Plan 2026-2028 that defines priorities and role in support of the competitiveness of the Country System for the next three years. The Plan, approved by the SACE Board of Directors and the result of a listening path of more than 400 companies, “is born in a global context in rapid transformation, characterized by high uncertainty”, reads in a note.
In this framework SACE “will support enterprises by making available approximately 150 billion euros of new commitments for the period 2026-2028, articulated in approximately 40 billion in 2026, 51 billion in 2027 and 58 billion in 2028′′. The overall level of commitments is continuously compared to the previous three years but with a different composition, consistent with the new strategic priorities identified: strengthening the role of SACE in support of the international projection of Italian enterprises and greater capacity for intervention on national initiatives with high systemic impact. The Strategic Plan 2026-2028 ” aims to strengthen the role of SACE as a leverage of industrial and economic policy of the country and accompany the Export Credit Agency towards the 50th anniversary of its foundation (1977-2027)”.
“The Strategic Plan 2026-2028 will accompany SACE towards its 50th anniversary, fully enhancing the company’s original mission to support the export and international projection of Italian companies, always engines of the country’s growth. In a context in which economics and geopolitics are increasingly connected, we strengthen our commitment to support Made in Italy in the world and contribute to the competitiveness of Italy, working in synergy with the institutions, the financial system and all the actors of the Country System”, said Guglielmo Picchi, President of SACE.
“We take pride in today’s Strategic Plan 2026-2028 which, in addition to enhancing SACE’s historical mission to support export and internationalization, also marks a change in public support for Italian companies. In an increasingly complex global scenario, SACE evolves towards an approach oriented to additionality, selectivity and measurable impact to accompany companies in international markets, strengthen the competitiveness of supply chains and direct public guarantee to support new investments in the country, enhancing the leverage effect and involvement of private capital, coherently and in agreement with European guarantee tools, in order to concentrate public resources on markets, supply chains and projects.
The Plan strengthens the role of SACE in support of Italian companies in the growth paths on foreign markets, with particular attention to the diversification of the markets of outlet, to the strengthening of support to the productive chains and to the support of the sectors with greater potential for Made in Italy. The Plan aims to support high export potential and internationalization chains. The core branches identified are: automation and instrumental mechanics, infrastructure and construction, blue and shipbuilding economy, defense and aerospace. These include the strategic sectors of Made in Italy, including digital and microelectronics, automotive, agri-food, chemistry, energy, steel and metallurgy, textiles.
In the new strategic framework it assumes a specific importance the operativity on the domestic market through the Archimede Guarantee, which represents the main tool of use of the State guarantee, to promote additional investments in strategic initiatives of the Country, with the aim to activate private capital, financial intermediaries and institutional investors. The project will include portfolio structures, debt instruments and synergies with European guarantee and financing instruments, particularly with EIB and the InvestEU programme, also in coordination with CDP and other institutional partners.
To reach the mission and the targets of the Plan, SACE will focus on four key levers and two key enablers that include the evolution of the service model in advisory optics, the strengthening and extension of the range of products and services, the enhancement of complementarity between the Group companies and the consolidation of partnerships with the public, financial and institutional system, also in order to expand the overall capacity of intervention.
These levers are accompanied by two main enabling factors, represented by the strengthening of skills and human capital and by the evolution of the digital ecosystem and IT infrastructures, which are functional to the improvement of operational efficiency, the quality of processes and the capacity to respond to enterprises. In the economic-financial profile, the Plan previews gross premiums piled for approximately 5,7 billion euros in the three years, with an average annual growth rate of approximately 22%, a gross result growing up to about 680 million euros in 2028 and a profile of patrimonial solidity confirmed by a Solvency Ratio stably greater than 270% along the entire Plan horizon.
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