Unicaja and the la Asociación de Comerciantes y Empresarios de Torremolinos (ACET) have signed a new collaboration agreement with the aim of promoting the activity of these professionals, thus favouring local economic development and strengthening the business fabric.
This agreement, which involves adherence to the agreement signed at the time by Unicaja and the Malaga Confederation of Business Owners (CEM), will benefit the nearly 500 self-employed workers and SMEs that make up ACET. Unicaja will thus provide them with a comprehensive, specific service, with favourable conditions. The aim is to make their day-to-day easier and to promote projects that enable their development.
The agreement strengthens the close relationship between the two parties and has been signed by the head of Unicaja's North-West Malaga, Gonzalo Mirasol, and the president of ACET, Juan José Vallejo.
Under this new agreement, the approximately 500 business owners who make up the Torremolinos Asociación de Comerciantes y Empresarios de Torremolinos will have access to the financial and non-financial products and services made available to them (accounts, collection and payment management, loans, private banking, digital banking, insurance and pension plans, among others).
Commitment to SMEs and the self-employed
The head of Unicaja's North-West Malaga highlighted "the bank's interest in promoting and facilitating economic development in our area of activity, particularly in Torremolinos and the province of Malaga as a whole".
Similarly, he pointed out that SMEs and the self-employed are at the heart of Unicaja's activity, as reflected in its 2025-2027 Strategic Plan: "this is a group to which we pay special attention, aware that promoting their activity will contribute to the economic development of the municipality and the province".
Therefore, with the aim of boosting the business fabric and the economy, the bank focuses its efforts on responding to the financing needs of these professionals, developing products and services tailored to their specific demands, always in conjunction with professional associations, whose important work Mirasol highlighted.
For his part, the president of ACET highlighted "the advantages of obtaining financial conditions that improve on those normally offered by Unicaja, such as mortgage prices and terms, POS fees conditions, fee exemptions, as well as improved interest rates on deposits and investment funds, regardless of the treatment of operations such as renting and leasing".
ACET, created more than 35 years ago, is a business organisation whose objective is the coordination, dialogue, representation, management, promotion and defence of the general and common business interests of its associated merchants and entrepreneurs.
