Vice-President Vigliotti's areas of oversight include financing of SMEs and mid-caps, equity and equity-type products, EIB-EIF cooperation, counterpart monitoring and restructuring, new products and special transactions, microfinance, financing operations in Italy, Malta, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya*, Palestine** and Syria***.
Italian business innovation bolstered with €100 million initiative by EIB and venture capital firm LIFTT
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Italian venture capital firm LIFTT are joining forces in a €100 million initiative to spur equity investments in highly innovative companies. The agreement, announced today in Rome by EIB Vice-President Gelsomina Vigliotti and LIFTT Chairman Stefano Buono, foresees the creation of a joint stock company in which both the EIB and LIFTT will invest €50 million each.
