FCI announced the winners for the 2022 Business Awards at this year’s 54th Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. FCI Chair, Ms Daniela Bonzanini and Secretary General, Mr Peter Mulroy announced the winners at the Council Meeting. Below are the Award Categories along with the winner and runners-up for each category.

Best Performance as Import Factor 2022

1st Place: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., USA
2nd Place: Deutsche Factoring Bank GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
3rd Place: BNP PARIBAS Factor SA, France

Best Performance as Export factor 2022

1st Place: Yapi Kredi Faktoring A.S., Turkey
2nd place: Eurobank Factors Single Member S.A., Greece
3rd place: Garanti Faktoring A.Ş., Turkey

Grand FCI Prize 2022 Import and export factor of the year

1st Place: BNP Paribas Factor SA, France
2nd Place: UniCredit Factoring S.p.A., Italy
3rd Place: INTESA SANPAOLO SPA, Italy

FCI 2022 Import & Export Factor of the Year – Asia Pacific

1. Mizuho Factors, Japan
2. The Mitsubishi UFJ Factors Limited, Japan
3. Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank Co. Ltd., Taiwan

FCI 2022 Import & Export Factor of the Year – Africa & Middle East

1. Maroc Factoring, Morocco
2. Tunisie Leasing & Factoring, Tunisia
3. Banque Marocaine pour le Commerce et l'Industrie, Morocco

FCI 2022 Import & Export Factor of the Year – Americas

1. Exicon Consultoria em Crédito e Cobrança Ltda, Brazil
2. Banco Nacional De Comercio Exterior S.N.C., Mexico
3. Bancolombia S.A., Colombia

FCI 2022 Import & Export Factor of the Year – Europe

1. Deutsche Factoring Bank GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
2. FACTORIT S.p.A., Italy
3. Eurobank Factors Single Member S.A., Greece

Best Service quality improvement since 2020 as Export Factor
Halk Faktoring A.S., Turkey – (+)20%

Best Service quality improvement since 2020 as Import Factor
International Factors Italia S.p.A. IFITALIA, Italy – (+)7.67%

Quality Consistency over the past 5 years
BNP PARIBAS Factor SA, France – average score of 93.70%

This year saw a new additional award on the list, which was the Best Deal of the Year. This award was based on submissions by the companies, of which the FCI Marketing Committee selected five deals which were presented to the Members at the Annual Meeting. Members then voted for the best deal of the year which was announced at the Council Meeting.

Best Deal of the Year 2022

Tied for 1st Place:
Kuveyt Türk Katilim Bankasi as Export Factor, ABN AMRO Asset Based Finance N.V. as Import Factor
Banco Monex Mexico as Export Factor, The CIT as Import Factor

2nd Place: Standard Chartered Bank Korea as Export Factor, BNP PARIBAS Factor as Import Factor
3rd Place: India Factoring and Finance Solutions (IFFS) as Export Factor, CIT International as Import Factor
4th Place: TBC Bank as Export Factor, Armswissbank as Import Factor

FCI recently released the 2021 Industry Statistics which showed a significant increase in growth for the industry and in certain places, the growth was higher than in 2019. This is reflected in these companies who, with much hard work from their teams, showed significant success. FCI would like to congratulate all of the winning companies, runners up and nominees.