Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us. Beginning on slide three, the first quarter results are solid, paving the way for a successful full year 2022. In particular, we reported positive overall group revenues and a healthy growth in EBIT, with the payments and mobile businesses and insurance services are drivers of recurring growth. In an uncertain market environment, our diversified income streams are providing a strong base to deliver our targets. Also considering our proven track record in managing the cost base in a flexible way. Let's move to group financial results on slide four, please. The number on this slide speak for themselves. Poste had a solid financial performance in Q1. Overall results are just shy of EUR 3 billion and up 1.4% from last year.
We remain committed to efficiency with total cost of EUR 2.3 billion, down 1.4% year-on-year, reflecting lower FTEs and despite cost inflation. Q1 of 2022, EBIT is almost EUR 700 million, up an impressive 12% with net income of a little under EUR 500 million, increasing almost 11% from last year. Let's go segment by segment on slide five, starting from mail, parcel, and distribution. Revenues were down 2% with both mail and parcel in line with our projections. Parcel volumes are going through a normalization phase while remaining structurally above pre-pandemic levels and driven by solid fundamentals. A year-on-year comparison is unfair since in Q1 2021, extraordinary volumes were achieved when two-thirds of Italian regions were under strict movement restrictions.
Moreover, mail is no longer impacted by changes in perimeter as the Nexive consolidation has been effective since January last year. However, our results confirm our flexibility to address unfavorable market trends, giving us visibility on our 2022 EBIT target. Financial services are showing positive commercial trends with strong contribution from NII offsetting lower capital gains. We will cover it in more detail later. Our insurance services business enjoy a successful quarter even compared to last year, which in itself was a very strong quarter. This growth was driven by higher average technical reserves and margin, as well as positive commercial trends in P&C. For the first time, payment and mobile, which is the smallest segment of the company, has shown the biggest revenue increase in absolute terms.
This remarkable achievement proves that our strategy was right back in 2018 when we established this growth-oriented segment. Card payments revenues continue to increase, and our market share continue to increase with higher transaction, both on physical and e-commerce channels. Let's move to a more detailed review of our numbers by segment, and let me hand over to our CFO, Camillo Greco. Please, Camillo.
Thank you, Matteo, and good afternoon, everyone. Let's start the quarterly review with mail, parcel, and distribution on slide number seven. Mail revenues remain stable year-on-year. This is a positive result when considering that last year's quarter already benefited from Nexive contribution and that the pandemic-related mail backlog is gradually fading out. The lower margin and recorded mail revenues decline was compensated by higher value-added integrated services, such as notifications from public administration services. As expected, parcel revenues were down 10% year-on-year as a result of normalizing volumes after the lockdown-driven growth in Q1 2021. If you look back at this period last year, two-thirds of Italian regions were still under severe movement restrictions. Therefore, e-commerce trends were affected by the consumer behavior and high propensity to buy online.
Let me highlight that most postal and logistic operators are experiencing the same anticipated market dynamics. Having said that, in line with the business seasonality, we expect parcel revenues to be more positive in the second half of the year. Also, as you may recall, in July, from volumes coming from China, which is struggling with a new wave of pandemic related lockdowns. Other revenues were significantly higher, reaching EUR 58 million, mainly driven by growing fees on new businesses, including digital identities. Finally, financial product distribution fees were flat, mirroring financial services revenues. As you can see, we were able to mitigate the impact of market headwinds and lower revenues with rigorous cost discipline, with EBIT resilient year-over-year. This confirms our flexibility to address unfavorable market environment, giving us full flexibility on our 2022 EBIT target.
Let me also highlight that we are progressing as planned with our contractual logistic rollout, and earlier this month, we closed the acquisition of Plurima, healthcare logistics company. Let's now look at mail parcel volumes and tariffs on slide number eight. Parcel volumes were down 13% in Q1, in line with wider market trends, which all postal operators are currently experiencing, and we have just mentioned. Looking at pricing, the average parcel tariff was up 3% in the quarter, supported by B2B2C tariffs mitigating declining volumes. Moving to mail, volumes remained stable year-on-year, supported by reminder notifications from public administrations offsetting a recorded mail decline. Let's now take a closer look at parcel revenues and volumes evolution on slide number nine.
Looking back from 2017, you can appreciate the steady increase over time, peaking in 2021 against the tremendous growth supported by movement restrictions. We are now experiencing a normalization phase. Volumes remain high, structurally above pre-pandemic levels, confirming that the strategic direction we took in the logistic transformation was the right one. Nevertheless, we are not hiding from the facts. Latest market data shows that leisure and travel expenditure is increasing with e-commerce, while e-commerce is underperforming, highlighting changing consumer behavior as movement restrictions are lifted. However, we believe that the fundamental growth drivers for e-commerce are still intact. In fact, we have been working to be fully able to manage our volumes in second half of the year.
In any case, allow me to be frank and say that we have several levers and maximum flexibility to offset any potential impact at operating level, maintaining full visibility on our original EBIT target. Moving to financial services, slide 10. Gross revenues remained stable in the first quarter, thanks to NII growth, which increased 16% year-over-year, benefiting from tax credit investments and higher interest rates, which we'll cover in more detail in the next slide. Let's review the other items one by one. We booked EUR 176 million this quarter and already secured all the active portfolio management contribution planned for 2022, with settlement dates in Q2 and Q3. Postal savings distribution fees declined 4% year-over-year. The contribution to EBIT from postal savings remained stable year-over-year, although we're experiencing higher than expected net outflows.
Traditional payment slips continued to decline in line with market trends, with transaction banking fees down 9% in Q1, partially offset by increasing revenues booked in payments and mobile. Loan and mortgage distribution revenues were up 7%, driven by higher volumes and pricing. Asset management revenues continued to increase, supported by higher average volumes year on year. EBIT registered a healthy growth of 12%, supported by NII and coupled with lower provisions and inter-segment costs. Let's now take a look at NII evolution on slide number 11, focusing on the quarterly progression on the top chart. As of March, we have purchased tax credit for EUR 8.6 billion. This activity has helped mitigate low interest rate headwinds, resulting in EUR 23 million incremental income. We expect to see a similar contribution over the next quarters in 2022.
Moving to the BTP investment portfolio, volumes remained flat. In Q1, we invested in EUR 2.6 billion BTP with around 40 basis points yield pickup compared to the BTP sold and matured in the quarter. We expect this net positive impact on revenue stream to continue throughout the year. Moving on to the NII component from investing in public administration deposits. We have EUR 14 billion of deposits in those accounts, with a remuneration link for 60% to the ten-year BTPs and 40% six-month BOTs. The increase in ten-year BTP yields led to a EUR 24 million NII improvement year to date. Going forward, we expect Q1 NII to be representative of the upcoming quarters. Obviously, higher rates are impacting our portfolio mark to market.
As of today, unrealized capital gains amount to -EUR 1 billion, with the ten-year BTP swap rate at around 175 basis points and BTP swap spread circa 100 basis points. As a reminder, we have already secured capital gains for 2022 and 2023. Therefore, the upcoming 18 months only represent a buying opportunity at these higher rates. Moving to slide number 12. TFAs reached EUR 582 billion, down 4% since December, related to the impact of higher interest rates. Since the beginning of the year, net inflows amounted to EUR 2 billion. Looking at each component, postal savings were down EUR 4.6 billion due to higher than expected net outflows, partially compensated by a market effect. Looking in more detail, postal savings bonds experienced positive gross inflows compensated by higher early redemptions.
Postal saving books were affected by rescheduling of pension payment scheme following the end of the emergency decrease and impacted by lower saving propensity. Net technical reserve declined, negatively affected by higher interest rates, despite positive net inflows, with strong contribution from multi-class products now representing 51% of new production. Deposits grew by EUR 4 billion, increasing across all categories, mainly driven by public administration accounts. Finally, mutual funds recorded positive net inflows, more than offset by negative market effect. Moving to slide number 13. Insurance revenues were up 7% in the quarter, with positive contribution from both Life and P&C segments. Life insurance revenues posted very strong results, considering that last year's quarter already recorded solid revenues. In particular, we recorded positive contribution from both increased average technical reserves and a growing share of our profitability multi-class products. The investment margin also benefited from inflation-linked bond exposure.
In non-life, revenues grew 12%, thanks to increasing gross written premiums, which were up 19% on an annual basis, supported by the new modular offer and welfare policies. The P&C combined ratio remained stable year-on-year. The lapse rate increased year-on-year, but is still very well below the market average. In terms of EBIT, we had a strong growth of 14%, with both life and non-life revenues contributing to the top line. Let's now look at the solvency ratio evolution on slide number 14. Poste Vita Group's Solvency II ratio remains well above the 200% managerial ambition through the cycle. The Solvency II ratio is up 11 percentage points to 272%, benefiting from stable BTP spreads and increasing interest rates. Transitional measures provide additional 24 percentage points.
As of today, Solvency II ratio is currently between 235% and 250%. Moving to payments and mobile on slide 15. This quarter, we can see yet another strong set of results in our payments and mobile business, with revenues growing by 20% and all business lines providing outstanding contribution. Card payments are up a significant 18% to EUR 120 million, thanks to higher margin Postepay Evolution cards. More importantly for all of us, as pandemic restrictions are lifted, we continue to see increased transactions up 15% year-on-year, reaching over EUR 500 million in the first quarter, growing well above the market average and embedding a remarkable 14% increase in e-commerce transactions.
On top of that, let me remind you that we have a positive contribution from debit cards, which were previously accounted through financial services. Other payments doubled in the quarter, mainly driven by increased payment transactions, now directly managed by Postepay as payment service provider, successfully mitigating the accelerated decline in payment slips. Telco revenues grew 3% in the quarter, yet another positive result in a traditionally high churn market. The new fiber offer is picking up momentum that is also bringing in new higher margin customers. EBIT grew 12% in Q1, impacted by the energy project start-up cost for EUR 2 million. On slide number 16, you can appreciate how Poste Italiane's workforce transformation is progressing.
Over the year, our average headcount decreased by around 3,700 employees to below 120,000 FTEs for the first time, despite 2,700 new hirings in the quarter, which we expect to further grow in the second half of the year. This once again demonstrates our ability to effectively adjust our workforce in a flexible way. HR costs per FTE are up 1% year-on-year to just under EUR 45,000. More importantly, the value added per FTE is growing at a faster rate of 5% year-on-year, reaching EUR 77,000 per FTE. Moving to group HR costs on slide 17. Overall, HR costs are slightly down year-on-year, with lower FTEs compensating higher employee benefits.
An important KPI to highlight here is the ordinary HR cost on revenue, down to 45% from 46% in Q1 2021. On slide number 18, let's review non-HR costs. Costs are down EUR 12 million year-on-year, still embedding higher transaction fees for EUR 4 million to support the payment business growth. Our focus on cost discipline allowed us to absorb an inflation-related cost increase of circa EUR 14 million due to higher fuel transportation and delivery costs, in line with our expectations. Let me also remind you that the hedges we put in place for corporate energy cost and jet fuel contributed to shielding us from price rises until 2023. Thank you for your time. Let me hand over back to Matteo for the wrap up.
Thank you, Camillo. Our operating profitability progression across business segments is paving the way to reaching our ambitious 24SI targets. We have been able to maintain a resilient EBIT in mail and parcel, offsetting the impact from parcel volume normalization supported by our cost discipline. EBIT in financial services increased, thanks to higher NII and lower cost. Insurance services has confirmed itself as the biggest contributor to group profitability, with positive performance in both Life and P&C. Finally, in payments and mobile, double-digit EBIT growth comes as a result of successfully leveraging on market trends. Before taking your question, let me conclude with some key messages on slide 20.
On May fifth, Poste Italiane celebrated its 160th anniversary with an event in Rome, highlighting how our unique heritage has allowed us to address today's challenges and guide the future of our communities and company. As you know, the pandemic has impacted everyone, with some emerging more weakened than others. We though have constantly been working hard to evolve into a platform company, leading to a structural upward shift in Poste's growth trajectory. We have consistently improved performance since 2020. After recovery in 2021, in the first quarter of this year, we continue to grow, paving the way to a successful 2022. Thank you for your time today, and let's now move on to the Q&A session. Over to you, Massimo.
Thank you. The first question is from Domenico Santoro, HSBC. Please, Domenico.
Hi there. Good morning. Thanks for the presentation. A couple of questions from my side. First of all, on the NII, where it looks like your quarterly run rate is much better than the one implied in the guidance that you just gave a couple of months ago. I just want to understand how shall we look at the evolution of a net interest income from this level. Maybe you can break it up, you know, or the improvements or the headwinds that you see from here in terms of rates, in terms of tax credits, and also in terms of income from the PA deposits.
At the end of the day, whether this EUR 420 million is sustainable and how it can evolve also over the next couple of years, given the rate environment now is much better compared probably to the last time that we had spoken in March. Related to this, did I understand correctly that you expect the capital gains from your portfolio to be around EUR 400 million for this year and the next, so the target that you gave in the business plan, which is a little bit counterintuitive, one probably would expect NII going up and gross capital gains be a little bit softer going forward. The other question that I had is on the cost in particular in mail and parcel, where you're going very well ahead of the.
I mean, even here, the run rate is much better. It doesn't seem like you are downgraded the target in mail and parcel, because my understanding is that you expect certain improvement in the second part of the year. Net-net, I just wonder whether, given the evolution in terms of cost, at the end, there is some upside, you know, on the EBIT target that you gave for 2022. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Domenico. I'll take the first question, NII, and then let Camillo take the second one. The EUR 420 million NII for Q1 is certainly an improvement versus our forecast of only a few weeks ago. We've been spending a lot of time in the last few weeks on the fixed income portfolio. I think, you know, we reach the conclusion that we can consider this quarterly performance as a good guidance for the rest of the year.
This is based on the consideration that the readjustment of the rate environment, which has been dramatic, historic in the last few weeks, is allowing us to reinvest at much higher rates the portfolio that is coming to maturity. Just to give you an example from, you know, second, third, and fourth quarter of 2022, we have a couple of billion EUR of BTPs going to maturity. We had an assumption of reinvesting this at, you know, short of 1% in 10-year BTP. We're now, you know, closer to 3%. The 2% pickup is giving us, obviously, you know, as simple as, you know, EUR 40 million pickup.
If you project this over the course of the plan, is clearly positive also beyond 2022. This, for the first time, structural change of the rate environment is allowing us, you know, I think, you know, at least since I've taken the helm of the company five years ago, to see the average yield of the portfolio going up. We were, you know, breaking through the 2% threshold. For the first time, you have it in the presentation, we have a positive or, you know, a non-negative impact quarter-over-quarter, for the first time in, I'm referring to page 11 to the top quarter-over-quarter evolution.
You see that versus last year, we still bring EUR 37 million rate effect in the portfolio, negative. If you compare this quarter to last quarter of last year, you have, you know, a +6. We are marginally increasing the yield of the portfolio, thanks to the ability to invest at higher rates. We are estimating that this increase in the portfolio going forward, to give you a feel, in current market environment, and, you know, obviously, we will have to observe market developments, but in current market environment, could be as much as a 10 basis point per annum pickup in yield. Tax credit you mentioned is also giving a strong contribution.
The average implied duration equivalent of the tax credit, EUR 8.5 billion is 3.9% modified duration. So we are investing at above 4% in less than five-year maturity equivalent, which means that, you know, we have currently a 2.5%-3% pick up versus rate. Moreover, it allow us to go and, you know, invest even beyond 10 years because we lower the risk exposure investing in the short end with tax credit. So the two things put together are, you know, an additional grade on the NII that, you know, will go through our income statement in the future. Please, Camillo.
Thank you, Matteo. With respect to the first question, Domenico, on capital gains or how we call it active portfolio management, we do confirm that in 2022 there's going to be EUR 0.4 billion of contribution of active portfolio management. As a matter of fact, we repeat also what we said at the Capital Markets Day, which is that those active portfolio management benefits have already been locked in, and I would look at the lower end of the EUR 0.4 billion.
The other thing that we did say and we reconfirm is that we already locked in a portion of the capital gains we intend to target for 2023, and those are already locked in to the extent that the rate environment remains the one that it is. We probably will stop there, but we are monitoring the situation. With respect to the question around breakeven on mail parcel and distribution, we did upgrade our guidance back in March when we said that 2024 will be a year with positive contribution. At this stage, we won't change that guidance.
With respect to the contribution of Mail, Parcels and Distribution for 2022, we have given a number of -EUR 0.2 billion, i.e., from -EUR 151 million to -EUR 249 million. We stick to those numbers for the time being.
Okay. Thank you, guys.
Thank you. The next question is from Ashik Musaddi, Morgan Stanley. Please, Ashik.
Yeah. Thank you, Massimo. Good afternoon, Matteo. Good afternoon, Camillo. I just have a couple of questions. I mean, sorry for being a bit greedy. I mean, Matteo, you gave a very clear answer on NII, but sorry for being a bit more greedy on that. I mean, EUR 420 is the current run rate for this quarter. Now, if I look at the progression, your underlying progression for first quarter, I mean, you have got a reasonable amount of flows quarter-over-quarter coming from public administration, but still a good amount of flows. At the same time, interest rates have gone further in second quarter. Now, if interest rates remain here, would you say that there is even more upside to this EUR 420, and most likely that number is going to stay in the future as it is?
Would you say that, okay, it might go to EUR 450, but then it will drop for XYZ reasons? I mean, the reason why we are trying to understand this is because clearly NII is something which matters a lot. It's a long-term revenue profile for you. It's not a one-off like a capital gain. I mean, if NII stays at EUR 500 level, I mean, it's a materially different versus your guidance and versus what people are expecting, and it stays with you for much longer. That's the reason going back into this topic. Sorry for this, but that's the first one. Secondly, I mean, you mentioned again that parcels is most likely to pick up in second half.
I mean, is there any early signs you are seeing this quarter, that things are getting better year-over-year? Or would you say that second quarter most likely would remain similar to first quarter and then it gets better? Yeah. These two questions would be more than helpful. Thank you.
Okay. You're allowed to be greedy. We're in the business also. No, I think and you're right, since we closed the quarter at EUR 420, April was another, you know, step up for the rate environment, a meaningful one. I think that you know, we gave EUR 420 as you know, a base, you wanna call it a target, maybe you want to be a bit more optimistic, and it's a base, but our ambition is exactly the one you mentioned. If we could reach a level where we don't need capital gains, we've been telling for the last five years that we would have balanced capital gains versus NII to you know, fulfill our financial services portfolio revenues.
I agree with you. If we could get to the same level, maybe slightly higher without touching capital gains, we would be a different company. We're not far from that result. As I just said, we are investing a lot of time. We consider this to be a relatively unique opportunity for the firm to do a, you know, a change of skin into a different mindset versus the portfolio.
At the end of the day, we've been working for many years in a rate environment where, you know, we had no opportunity to invest with decent returns, and we were only benefiting of all the investments or, you know, opportunistic investment when there was some spread or rates widening. We lived thanks to hedging our investments. As you know, more or less 50% of our portfolio, thank God, it was hedged floating, and this was clearly, you know, important. Now that the market has moved in our direction, we have to be smart and fast to, you know, acknowledge it and change the profile of our portfolio returns.
In terms of Q2, as far as April and the first week of May is concerned, not a big change versus Q1. We're working very hard on some key clients. We're working very hard on dynamic pricing to adjust at least the top line, if you know the volumes are not supporting. That's an area where we will keep a lot of focus internally.
Thanks, for that. Great set of results. Really good. Thank you. Thanks a lot.
Thank you. The next question is from Manuela Meroni of Banca IMI. Please, Manuela.
Good morning to everybody. Three questions on my side. The first one is on parcel. I'm wondering if we can consider the current level of revenues in parcel as a normalized one, and therefore, we can apply the usual seasonality that we had in the pre-pandemic period for the remaining part of the year. Or if you expect a further normalization path in the next few quarters. The second question is a clarification on NII. I'm wondering in an increasing interest rate scenario if the investment in tax credit still makes sense. If you can elaborate a little bit more compared what you already said before. Third question, you recently made a small investment in Scalapay. Possibly it is just a financial investment, but I'm wondering if you have any ambition in the buy now, pay later segment.
Okay. I'll take the second and third and let Camillo answer on the parcel-
Yes.
Seasonality normalization. Now, tax credit, we reached EUR 1.8 billion investments. As you know, we have a plafond of EUR 9.5 billion. It still makes a lot of sense from a return. Obviously, you know, you need to adjust it for liquidity. You know, owning government security is not like owning a tax credit that has, you know, five years installment or sometimes ten-year installment. But from a rate and return perspective, we are today investing at 4%-4.5%, BTP in five years is 1.5%. So, you know, we're close to 3% pickup.
The addition or the deduction to the risk profile in terms of our target and our limits on average duration on the portfolio also benefits. Because when you can buy with a pickup a medium-term or a short-dated tax credit, you create room to buy more long-dated without impacting the average life of your portfolio. Scalapay, we don't do financial investments by, you know, our own decision. We always want to make investments in companies that are helping Poste to accelerate our roadmap. Some of those companies, you know, we become clients immediately.
I think you know the example of Tink you know the payment company that we you know we bought 5% and then you know we were bought out by Visa last year with you know after 18 months with a very good return on the investment. More importantly we spent 18 months as a shareholder developing our open banking platform with the company. Scalapay is an interesting player in the buy now pay later which is a market that is not sure it will open in Italy but you know has any player in payments. We are you know spending time understanding whether you know this is a market where we can offer something more to our clients.
Thank you, Matteo. With respect, Manuela, to your question on parcel volumes being normalized, I think we will not yet characterize Q1 2022 as a normalized level. There have been a number of things that have played in different ways. First and foremost, China was in lockdown, and that has had an impact on some of the inbound volumes into Italy. Secondly, and equally importantly, there is a very significant environment of price increase, which we think, you know, we could lead to a different mix of volumes and pricing between now and the end of the year. Lastly, as the CEO already said, we are working very hard with some key clients to try to broaden the services we offer to such clients.
In this vein, let me also add that we have closed the acquisition of Plurima, which we talked about before. Plurima will be under the parcel banner. You will see also some perimeter change as a result of the acquisition. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from Elena Perini from Banca IMI. Please, Elena.
Good afternoon. I've got only one question on insurance services. Well, considering the very good levels of net inflows in life and of gross written premiums in non-life, as regards the first quarter, I was wondering if you can give us some indication on your expectations for the remaining part of the year for both life and non-life, considering that well the scenario is very challenging. I was wondering if you expect any slowdown ahead. Thank you very much.
Please, Camillo.
Thank you. With respect to financial services, specifically insurance services, I think we are not at this stage going to change what we said a few weeks ago. We still target a total revenue of EUR 2.2 billion and an EBIT EUR 1.2 billion for the year. We had a good first quarter, but there is still a long way to the end of the year. At this point, we stick to our original guidance. Yeah, I think, you know, the rate environment area, if I may add just one quick comment. Also on the equity side, what's happening on markets should be a relative versus peer good news for us.
You're aware that basically 93% of our assets under management are capital guaranteed, so our clients are much more protected than others. You know, in such a volatile equity environment, we are less exposed. The other element that is helping our insurance space is the fact that on the liability side, we still have an important capital protection and minimum yields in our portfolio. Those protections, when you move from a 1% to a 3% rate environment, becomes obviously much easier to achieve. All in all, we were looking at our overall margins on the life business, and it's growing quarter-over-quarter.
It's growing both on the capital guaranteed and non-capital guaranteed. The second one is growing even more, and as you have seen, the mix is also, you know, holding an interesting level in the quarter. I think, you know, positive also on the commercial side of the insurance space.
Thank you, Elena. We have a couple of questions from our work platform. Allow me just to read the ones we haven't addressed during the call, if I may. First, other revenues in mail parcel and distribution reported for EUR 58 million. Can we take this as a run rate for 2022? Then card payments and other payments, which are the growth expectations for the year? The last, on the energy business, can you guide us on an update on the timing of the launch of the business and what contributions, if any, do you expect from the business in revenues on 2022 and 2023?
Okay, Camillo, you want to take the first two, and then I'll wrap up with the energy.
With respect to the first question on other in mail and parcel and distribution, yes, we believe that number of EUR 58 million is a reasonable indicator of what we expect for the rest of the year on a quarterly basis, probably I would point towards 0.0%, between 0.1% and 0.2% for the full year. With respect to card payments and other payments. Other payments has been growing mainly as a result of the switch from payment slips to the form of payment, pagamento pagoPA, which has been recorded in payments and mobile.
That has been the tool through which we have recaptured some of the volumes that we lost in payment slips that are under transaction banking and financial services. On the energy, we are already in beta test, so from the first of April, now it's the second month that we have a number of employees of Poste Italiane that are on a pilot, so they are using electricity and gas at home provided by Poste Energia. We're doing the fine-tuning of the product as we speak. In the next few weeks, we will proceed with an internal official launch of the product. Internal means an offer dedicated to employees and related parties.
based on the result and also the market environment, we will do the official public launch. I say market environment because, as you know, we have built an end-to-end energy sales platform, but that platform needs the hedges. We will periodically hedge and go and buy forward the energy that we are actually selling to our clients. We need forward markets to be open. They are open as we speak. They've been open all the way through.
These are international markets, wholesale markets, energy exchanges, and that seems to hold, but you know, before we push to the public the go-to-market in the public environment, we want to be absolutely sure that we have no surprises. In terms of contribution to our bottom line, for the time being, we have only seen the cost of this 2022. I'm afraid we will not see a lot of revenues, but you know, from next year onwards, this will certainly show in our income statement. Even though I believe that, you know, energy is a really, really important step for the firm with a medium to long-term perspective.
We're adding one pillar product to our franchise, and I think, you know, this will over time prove to be an extremely solid component, you know, down the road for the bottom line of the company. Thank you.
Well, okay. Thank you. We have another question from our web platform, and it is related to our project with the public administration with reference to Polis. Can you please elaborate on that, please?
Yeah. Polis is the name of a NextGenerationEU related government program aimed at offering public administration services to general public, to citizens, in around 7,000 of our postal offices that will be refurbished, that will be upgraded from an IT standpoint in order to offer public services to Italian clients. The 7,000 postal offices are located all around the country and the focus is mainly in the smaller cities where there is less presence of public offices. It's EUR 800 million that will be funded by the state in favor of Poste Italiane for the program.
There is a second component in the plan, which is developing around 250 locations of co-working in real estate premises that are owned by the company already, that they will be again refurbished and put in the market to activate co-working spaces open to entrepreneurs and individuals all around the country. On this, I thank everybody for the time, and I look forward to meeting you in person, hopefully very soon. Thank you very much.