UBI Banca presents a social bond, part of the income from which will go
to the Federazione Italiana per il Superamento dell’Handicap (FISH –
Italian Federation for Overcoming Handicap)
FISH, the umbrella organisation for associations most active in promoting the rights of
persons with disabilities, will receive 0.50% of the face value of the bonds. It has an
estimated 13,000 direct beneficiaries. The securities will be placed at UBI Banca Group
branches from 24th November 2014 until 31st December 2014.
Milan, 24th November 2014 - UBI Banca announces the issue of the social bond “UBI Comunità per
Federazione Italiana per il Superamento dell’Handicap” for a total amount of €20 million, part of the
income from which will constitute a charitable donation to the UBI Comunità per Federazione Italiana per
il Superamento dell’Handicap Onlus, which will use it to implement an innovative project for the social
inclusion of persons with disabilities.
The “Inclusion 2.0” project supported by UBI Banca is aimed at 10,000 persons with disabilities and their
families and will involve 3,000 specialist workers. It will provide the beneficiaries with easier access to
rights and opportunities and they will receive support on a programme to develop their personal
autonomy. More specifically, thanks to the most advanced technologies it will allow FISH to provide
knowledge, experiences, sources and data acquired over the years on a single IT platform, in order to offer
highly customised information in real time. This organised information will be used to improve the
customised advisory and support activities provided daily by hundreds of specialist workers. They will
therefore be able to improve their support services in schools, their occupational counselling services, their
mobility assistance and their support in general in various ways in the everyday lives of persons with
disabilities.
The bonds, issued by UBI Banca, have a minimum subscription price of €1,000 a life of three years, half
yearly coupons and a gross annual yield of 1%. They may be subscribed from 24th November 2014 until
31st December 2014, unless the offer period is closed early or extended.
The bonds will not be listed on any regulated market or multilateral trading system: they will be traded
directly without intermediary by the placement agents as part of the own-account trading service. The rate
of return on the social bond is in line with the yield on similar bonds issued by UBI Banca and on
government bonds with the same maturity. The total charitable donation made to the Federazione Italiana
per il Superamento dell’Handicap could reach €100,000 if the entire face value of the bond offered is
subscribed. It is also possible to support the Federazione Italiana per il Superamento dell’Handicap directly
by making a credit transfer to a current account (IBAN IT81C0504801672000000038939) at UBI Banca
Popolare Commercio & Industria, by means of the Qui UBI Internet Banking service (“Solidarity credit
transfers”) with no charges for the transaction or at UBI Banca Group branches, with no fees or
commissions charged for both customers and non-customers alike.
“People with disabilities lie at the centre of our work” – said Vincenzo Falabella, President of the
Federazione Italiana per il Superamento dell'Handicap – “Our goal is to promote inclusion in society
thereby going beyond an old-fashioned welfare approach which leads to segregation, marginalisation and
discrimination. Our project – Persons, not burdens “Inclusion 2.0” – which has met with interest and support
from UBI Banca, is designed to ensure that persons with disabilities and their families have an advanced and
customised IT system which allows these citizens to be protagonists, aware of the choices that concern their
lives. To support this initiative means understanding that money spent on inclusion is not unproductive, but
an investment.”
“With this social bond we want to support FISH’s choice to create a highly advanced service for persons with
disabilities, able to provide customised recommendations” – said Rossella Leidi, Deputy General Manager
at UBI Banca – “we feel that this project is distinguished by its great civic sense, it’s modernity and its
openness to the possibilities that technology has to offer, which the skills and sensibilities of the people at
FISH will know how to exploit effectively. With UBI Community and social bonds, UBI Banca supports the
most innovative initiatives in the third sector, offering prompt and effective responses to the needs of
nonprofit organisations by means of products specially developed to provide banking and credit support for
the management of everyday activities, projects and investments”.
The introduction of social bonds in Italy forms part of a policy to support the third sector pursued by the
UBI Banca Group through UBI Community, a services and tools platform dedicated, amongst other things,
to nonprofit organisations and Church institutions.
Since April 2012 the UBI Banca Group has issued 57 UBI Community social bonds for a total value of over
€595 million. These have made it possible to make charitable donations of over €2.9 million designed to
support initiatives of social interest and they have been subscribed by over 22,000 UBI Banca Group
customers.
For a full description of the bonds and for further details on the conditions of the offer, investors are invited
before subscribing to carefully read the currently valid Base Prospectus, the relative supplements and the
Registration Document, the Definitive Conditions with the attached summary notes relating to the issuance,
with particular regard to the “Risk Factors” section, available free of charge in branches and on the websites
of the issuer (www.ubibanca.it) and the placement agents from which information on the costs, conditions
and risks typical of the investment in question may be obtained.
UBI Banca
UBI Banca is the third largest Italian banking group by stock market capitalisation, with a market share of over 5%,
approximately 18,000 employees and over 1,600 branches, which provide it with a presence in the most important
economic areas in the country. UBI Banca is a co-operative group listed on the Milan stock exchange and included in
the FTSE /MIB index. In 2013 UBI Banca was awarded a prize for innovation in banking services in the “Charitable
bank” category by the Italian Banking Association and the National Prize for Innovation. In November 2014, Giorgio
Napolitano, the President of the Republic, awarded UBI Banca the AIRC prize “Believe in research”.
Federazione Italiana per il superamento dell’handicap Onlus
The FISH - Federazione Italiana per il Superamento dell’Handicap (Italian Federation for Overcoming Handicap),
formed in 1994, is an umbrella organisation for associations at both national and local level that are most committed
to the social inclusion of persons with different disabilities and against all types of prejudice and discrimination. It has
worked everyday for twenty years in the field to ensure that those with a disability are considered to be a person and
not a burden.
For further information please contact:
UBI Banca – Media Relations
Carlo Assi – 3351357029 – 02.77814936
[email protected]
FISH National Secretariat, Tel. 06 78851262, [email protected]
FISH Press Office, [email protected]
www.personenonpesi.it - www.fishonlus.it.