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Ifis sport

Our financial solutions dedicated to
the sport industry and its key players.

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We believe in sport and its values

We are a challenger bank that develops specialised solutions for businesses and individuals. With over 40 years of experience, we have built highly specialised expertise in the sports sector, particularly in the world of football.

Since 2023, driven by Banca Ifis Chairman Ernesto Fürstenberg Fassio and in line with his vision of merging profit generation with the creation of social value, the Bank has further strengthened its presence in the sector.

This journey has involved, on the one hand, enhancing the range of dedicated products and services, and on the other, stepping up our commitment to initiatives that aim to promote social inclusion and spread the positive values associated with sport.

Our services

Over time, we have developed specialised expertise in the sports sector. In football in particular, we entered the market around 20 years ago by supporting a player trading operation.

This path has led to the development of a range of tailored solutions designed to meet the specific needs of stakeholders in the sports sector.

Liquidity management solutions

  • Factoring for player trading operations with Italian or international counterparties
  • Advance payments on sponsorship and TV rights receivables

Other credit solutions

  • Medium- and long-term loans
  • Bank guarantees operations

Supply of vehicles and equipment

  • Financial leasing of vehicles
  • Rental of hi-tech equipment
  • Rental of medical devices

Banca Ifis initiatives in sport

Sponsorships

  • Main jersey sponsor of U.C. Sampdoria and supporter of the youth teams (football)
  • Main sponsor of Umana Reyer Venezia and youth teams of APU Udine (basketball)
  • Official partner of Luiss SSD (football) and main partner of the Dual Career projects in collaboration with Luiss SSD football section
  • Main supporter of the Ravano/Paolo Mantovani Tournament, the largest youth school event in Europe, under the patronage of UEFA.
  • Exclusive sponsor of the youth division of Golf Club Villa Condulmer and its Pro-Am tournament.
  • Official partner of the Calcio Mercato event.

Social impact activities

  • For the past four years, we have awarded scholarships to young CONI medallist athletes to support their sporting careers.
  • We support the amateur para-sport association Volpi Rosse.
  • We stand alongside the Federazione Sport Sordi Italia (Italian Deaf Sports Federation), the Paralympic federation dedicated to sports activities for ‘athletes with severe hearing impairment’.
  • We contribute to the refurbishment of the football pitch at the Opera Don Bosco Sampierdarena Institute in Genoa.

Italian Sport System Observatory

Since 2022, the Observatory on the Italian sports industry has been analysing the economic impact generated by ‘sports demand’ — from the resources needed to practise sport to the needs it fulfils and the social benefits it produces. It also includes in-depth studies on major sporting events with a significant impact on communities and territories.

For further information

Find out more on our site.

Press release Sport System Observatory - Previous Editions

Impact measurement

Our commitment to sustainability is real and measurable thanks to the Impact Measurement model — developed in 2022 by Banca Ifis’s Research Department in collaboration with Triadi, a spin-off of Politecnico di Milano — which enables us to assess the social impact generated by our projects.

The Impact Measurement model is applied to all strategic initiatives of Banca Ifis to quantify the benefits produced and assign a monetary value to them. We measure in order to give an economic value to the change generated by social projects, treating it as a real profit for society.

Over the past three years, Banca Ifis’s funded projects have generated significant value for the community.

6

Social initiatives in the field of sport

1,5 mln

Total value generated

x 3.6

an impact multiplier