Release date: 5 October 2021
Promoter – Financial Intermediary
ILLIMITY BANK SPALocation
Description
Reverse factoring operation under the European Guarantee Fund (EGF) of trade payables of Italian corporates and mid-caps, improving access to finance of their small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) suppliers, but possibly also mid-caps and large corporates.
Additionality and Impact
The COVID19 pandemic constitutes an unprecedented challenge with very severe socio-economic consequences. One of the objectives of the EGF is to respond to the economic impact of the COVID19 pandemic outbreak, by ensuring that SMEs in the participating Member States have sufficient liquidity available and access to finance to weather the rapidly unfolding crisis, and are able to continue their development in mid/long term. The project will be implemented in Italy, where SMEs are at a greater disadvantage when it comes to access to finance than elsewhere in the EU. Supply chain guarantees, by allowing a faster collection of the invoices issued by a client, are an effective tool to ease financing constraints that, especially in Italy, affect SMEs.
Objectives
The operation will allow an increase in the reverse factoring volumes available for suppliers to identified mid-cap and large corporate buyers enabling access to finance at favourable financing conditions for SME and mid-cap final beneficiaries.
Sector(s)
- Credit lines - Credit lines
Proposed EIB finance (Approximate amount)
EUR 60 million
Total cost (Approximate amount)
EUR 1344 million
Environmental aspects
The EIB will require that Illimity Bank SpA take all the required measures to ensure that final recipients (SMEs and mid-caps) meet the EIB's environmental standards and related EU/national legislation.
Procurement
The EIB will require that Illimity Bank SpA. take all the required measures to ensure that final recipients (SMEs and mid-caps) meet the EIB's procurement standards and related EU/national legislation.
Status
Signed - 2/12/2021
Disclaimer
Before financing approval by the Board of Directors, and before loan signature, projects are under appraisal and negotiation. The information and data provided on this page are therefore indicative.
They are provided for transparency purposes only and cannot be considered to represent official EIB policy (see also the Explanatory notes).