Federico Sforza is a start-up co-founder with more than two decades of experience at Nexi, Unicredit and ING Italy, where he was head of the SMEs business unit. Mr Sforza could have continued his trajectory to the top of Italian corporate banking, but instead he launched a new bank with his own money in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Milan-based fintech bank Banca AideXa has provided more than €500m in business loans to Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) over three years.
