The president of the regional council, Marco Marsilio in Pescara, chaired the shareholders’ meeting of Fi.RA, the Abruzzo regional finance company, which approved the 2023 financial statements of the in-house company of the Abruzzo region, with a net profit of over 50 thousand euros. Over 7,300 businesses and professionals have been financed with approximately 110 million euros invested in the last three years.
These are some of the measures of the last three years: 231 companies financed for over 2 million with the Small Agricultural Loan, a direct zero-interest loan to wine-growing companies and related processing companies that have suffered production damage following the excess rain in Abruzzo from April to June 2023. 168 projects financed (plus 6 applications under evaluation) for a total of approximately 9.5 million euros committed to Restart Fare Impresa, support for access to credit for Micro Small Businesses and professionals in the Abruzzo region seismic crater 2009. 142 investment projects financed with 15 million euros to support tourism businesses (LR 77/2000) to improve receptivity and quality standards of accommodation facilities. One-off support for individual businesses, self-employed workers and freelancers with a non-repayable fund to compensate for the loss of income suffered due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Over 4,700 beneficiaries for a total of over 10 million euros. 162 companies financed with 1 million euros to address the high energy costs of indoor sports facilities, contributions in favor of managers of sports facilities accessible to the public. In 2024 there will also be space for the agricultural sector: with the Rotation Fund managed by FiRA, agricultural companies, beneficiaries of the non-refundable support granted for productive investments for competitiveness and for the environment, climate and animal welfare or those for processing and marketing of agricultural products, can access the Fund managed by the regional finance company to request a zero-interest loan to cover the part of private co-financing that cannot be financed with the non-repayable grant.
“The Fi.RA balance sheet closed with a surplus of 52 thousand euros – commented Marsilio – and this did not happen in the past. Last year, the combined arrangement of Fi.RA and Abruzzo Sviluppo, before the merger, had in fact recorded over half a million euros in losses. This means that our financial company, thanks also to the merger process that we have carried out, today functions well, receives orders, produces activities and therefore also generates revenue that allows this company to move forward. The next step – he continued – will be to complete the process to transform itself into an intermediate body according to European legislation to better manage the reporting, distribution and disbursement of European funds. Activities which, among other things, Fi.RA, at least in part, already carries out. However, the good health of FiRA, also certified by the reports of the board of auditors and the auditors – he added – testifies to the good work done”.
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