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InvestEU: UniCredit and EIF unlock up to €890 million to accelerate SME growth in CEE
PRESS RELEASE
14 January 2026
UniCredit and the European Investment Fund (EIF) sign one of the largest InvestEU guarantee transactions, more than doubling their existing CEE partnership.
€445 million in new InvestEU guarantees will unlock up to €890 million in SME financing across seven Central and Eastern European countries by the end of 2027.
Agreement expands support for SMEs investing in sustainability, innovation and digitalisation, and opens up new debt capital market opportunities.
UniCredit and the European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the EIB Group, have signed a new InvestEU guarantee agreement to significantly scale up support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Central and Eastern Europe.
The agreement was announced at the FT CEE Forum in Vienna, a highly influential event in the region, which gathered over 2,000 delegates from 54 countries, including political leaders, investors, policymakers and business executives shaping Central and Eastern Europe’s future.
The new €445 million guarantee increases and extends the InvestEU uncapped guarantee umbrella launched in 2023, making it one of the EIF’s largest InvestEU transactions.
Available until the end of 2027, the facility is expected to unlock up to €890 million in additional financing for SMEs in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia.
The expanded facility will focus primarily on sustainability and innovation-driven projects and will continue to offer SMEs improved financing conditions, including more competitive pricing, longer maturities and reduced collateral requirements.
“This transaction demonstrates how InvestEU can be deployed at scale to deliver tangible impact for Europe’s Small and Mid-sized Enterprises,” said EIF Chief Executive Marjut Falkstedt. “By significantly expanding our partnership with UniCredit, we are supporting thousands of businesses in Central and Eastern Europe as they invest in sustainability, innovation and digital transformation. The strong utilisation of the previous guarantee confirms both the demand and the effectiveness of this approach, and we are proud to support its further expansion.”
“SMEs in EU CEE employ over 65% of people in the region and deliver more than 55% of the economic value, but some of their ambitions still outpace their access to affordable finance,” highlighted Teodora Petkova, Head of UniCredit for Central and Eastern Europe. ”By extending our InvestEU partnership with EIF, we are increasing lending volumes and providing tangible benefits: better terms, longer horizons, and now access to capital markets through minibonds. This way entrepreneurs with good ideas can invest, innovate and scale faster, with fewer constraints, while boosting CEE regions growth and opportunities.”
The extended agreement introduces minibonds as an eligible financing instrument, supporting SMEs’ access to debt capital markets and diversifying funding sources beyond traditional bank lending.
Vienna, 14th January 2026
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UniCredit S.p.A announces that the meeting of Board of Directors set to approve the fourth quarter and full year 2025 results will be on 8 February 2026.
The Group results presentation - publication and conference call - will be on 9 February 2026.
The updated financial calendar is available on the group website: https://www.unicreditgroup.eu/en
Milan, 13 January 2026
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UniCredit issues EUR 1 billion Additional Tier 1 PerpNC 6/2036 Notes at a new record low reset margin, the lowest in current AT1 market
PRESS RELEASE
12 January 2026
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Today UniCredit S.p.A. has issued Additional Tier 1 Non-Cumulative Temporary Write-Down Deeply Subordinated Fixed Rate Resettable Notes targeted to institutional investors for a total amount of EUR 1 billion.
This Additional Tier 1, part of UniCredit’s institutional MREL funding plan for 2026, improves the Tier 1 ratio by about 35 basis points.
The book building process gathered demand above EUR 4 billion from more than 220 investors globally, enabling to review downwards the guidance, initially set at 6.25% area, and to fix the coupon at 5.80%, with a reset margin of 301.3 bps, the lowest ever set by UniCredit and the lowest in the current AT1 Euro-market.
The final allocation has been mainly in favour of funds (49%), hedge funds (28%), and banks (14%), with the following geographical distribution: UK (37%), Asia (14%) Italy (10%) and France (10%).
The Notes have a 5.125% Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) trigger - if the Group or the Issuer CET1 ratio at any time falls below the trigger level, the instrument will be temporarily written down to cure the breach, taking also into consideration other instruments with similar write down triggers, ranking pari-passu among themselves.
The securities are perpetual (with maturity linked to corporate duration of UniCredit S.p.A.) and may be called by the Issuer on any calendar day during the six-month period commencing on 3 December 2035 and ending on 3 June 2036 and thereafter on any interest payment date, subject to regulatory approval.
The Notes pay fixed rate coupons of 5.80% per annum up to June 2036 on a semi-annual basis; if not called, coupon will be reset every 5 years to the aggregate of the then 5-Years Mid-Swap rate plus 301.3 bps, calculated on an annual basis and then converted to a semi-annual rate in accordance with market conventions. In line with the regulatory requirements, the coupon payments are fully discretionary.
UniCredit Bank GmbH acted as Global Coordinator and as Joint Bookrunner together with Barclays, BNP PARIBAS, BofA Securities, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Santander.
The notes are expected to be rated “Ba2” by Moody’s.
Milan, 12 January 2026
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UniCredit: update on the execution of the share buy-back programme during the period from 5 January 2026 to 9 January 2026
PRESS RELEASE
12 January 2026
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Milan, 12 January 2026 – Within the UniCredit S.p.A. (the “Company” or “UniCredit”) share buy-back programme communicated to the market on 23 October 2025 and initiated on the same date, as per the authorisation granted by the Shareholders’ Meeting of the Company held on 27 March 2025 (the “Second Tranche of the SBB 2024 Residual ”) – on the basis of the information received from JP Morgan SE as intermediary in charge of executing, in full independence (so-called “riskless principal” or “matched principal”), the Second Tranche of the SBB 2024 Residual – UniCredit informs, pursuant to art. 2, paragraph 3, of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052, that it has carried out the transactions indicated below.
The chart below provides aggregate details of the daily purchases of UniCredit ordinary shares (ISIN IT0005239360), made from 5 January 2026 to 9 January 2026.
UniCredit successfully issued dual tranche Senior Preferred bonds for a total amount of EUR 2 billion
PRESS RELEASE
08 January 2026
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Today, UniCredit S.p.A. (issuer rating A3/A-/A-) successfully issued dual tranche Senior bonds comprising of a EUR 1.25 billion with 4.5 years maturity, callable after 3.5 years, and EUR 750 million with 10 years maturity, targeted to institutional investors.
The issuance follows a book building process that gathered a combined demand of over EUR 7.3 billion, with more than 350 orders from investors globally. Given the strong market feedback, terms of the two tranches were set as follows:
- for the 4.5NC3.5 years bond, the initial guidance of 85bps over the 3.5-year mid swap rate has been revised downwards and set at 55bps, resulting in a fixed coupon of 2.875% paid annually, with an issue/re-offer price of 99.778%. The bond will have a one-time issuer call on July ‘29. Should the issuer not call the bond, the coupons for the subsequent periods until maturity will reset to a floating rate equal to 3-months Euribor plus the initial spread of 55bps;
- for the 10 years bond, the initial guidance of 120/125bps over the 10-year mid swap rate has been revised downwards and set at 95bps, resulting in a fixed coupon of 3.80% paid annually, with an issue/re-offer price of 99.738%.
The final allocation of the 4.5NC3.5 bond has been mainly in favor of funds (81%) and banks/private banks (13%), with the following geographical distribution: UK (40%), France (15%) and Germany/Austria (15%).
In relation to the 10 years bond, the final allocation has been mainly in favor of funds (58%) and banks/private banks (22%), with the following geographical distribution: France (27%), Germany/Austria (21%) and UK (20%).
UniCredit Bank GmbH acted as sole Global Coordinator and as Joint Bookrunner together with BNP PARIBAS, Citi, Danske Bank, Erste Group, HSBC, LBBW, Natixis, NatWest and Raiffeisen Bank International.
The bonds, part of the 2026 Funding Plan and documented under the issuer’s Euro Medium Term Notes Program, will rank pari passu with the outstanding Preferred Senior debt.
The expected ratings are as follows: A3 (Moody’s)/ A- (S&P)/ A- (Fitch).
Listing will be on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
Milan, 8 January 2026
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