Authorizations

• Simest can provide subsidized financing to widen Italian companies’, especially SMEs’, presence in foreign markets:
• Participation in trade fairs, exhibitions, and business missions to promote Italian businesses in new international markets
• Feasibility studies for evaluating investment opportunities abroad
• Programs for entering non-EU markets
• Capitalization of exporting SMEs
• Soft rates for Italian exporters whose turnover and procurement have been penalized
• Loans using European Union resources under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)
• Technical assistance programs to finance personnel training

• Simest offers export credit support, in the forms of buyer credit and supplier credit to benefit Italian exporters of capital goods
• Interest rate support is available on bank loans, allowing exporters to offer foreign buyers payment deferrals on medium/long-term orders under conditions and interest rates in line with OECD agreements

• Simest can make investments in a foreign company with Italian shareholders:
• Simest will take up to a 49% stake in the foreign company and, in any event, no more than the investment of the Italian shareholder
• Investment terms are up to 8 years
• Simest can provide an interest rate subsidy on a loan obtained by the Italian promoter’s share in the foreign company
• Subsidy can be up to EUR 40 million per project and EUR 80 million per economic group
• Subsidy is applied to 90% of the Italian shareholder’s share, up to 51% of the foreign company’s equity

• Simest manages EU funds, which are instruments for granting and attracting additional financing for significant investments in the transportation, energy, environmental, and social sectors