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Marco Montagnani, CEO & Founder of STEP 4 Business, declares: "The marketplace model allows to take full advantage of new digital technologies which, combined with open banking as enabling factor, make a customer-centric and completely free platform possible. The STEP platform has been conceived as a fully-fledged and unique selling proposition that makes small and medium-sized enterprises life simpler thanks to the best digital partners on the market and it has been designed and built together with customers and for customers. The first results achieved with Azimut Marketplace by STEP in Italy confirm the project’s worth: in just a few weeks, over 400 companies registered. 100% of companies are already using AIS service and aggregated their current accounts - with an average of 2.7 business accounts per customer - and more than 40 cross-selling opportunities have been generated (12 million euros operations in pipeline). The promising trend of this first phase motivates us to accelerate the project’s internationalization, already planned for the end of the year with the launch of STEP Spain.”