Welcome to the latest edition of FCI's In-Sight Newsletter for February 2022.
In this edition, we start with the welcome from the Chairwoman who explains to us some strategic directions taken by the Executive Committee.
Peter Mulroy, Secretary General, gives us an overview of what happened in 2021 and his predictions for 2022.
Ciprian Radu shares with us the last developments for Edifactoring 2.0 that will be launched on 3 April.
Betül Kurtulus is looking forward to the first FCI physical event in over two years, members from Central East Europe and South-East Europe will meet in Budapest, Hungary to network and hear from seniors on the recent developments in the region.
Kyle Mota presents the first physical Annual Meeting in over two years that will take place in Washington DC, 19-23 June. The theme of the conference is Changing Economic environmental and trade landscape: how will the receivables and supply chain finance industry cope.
In this edition of meet with FCI Directors, Nassourou Aminou and Aysen Cetintas share their career industry and vision. Daniela Bonzanini, FCI Chairwoman replies to a few questions including how she got started in the industry, some highlights of her career as well as why she thinks companies should choose factoring.
The members that joined FCI since the latest newsletter are presented, it includes Credlix (Singapore), DP World (UAE), FIBI (Israël), IFCM (Mauritius) and MNS Credit Management Group (India).
Aysen Cetintas reports on what is upcoming with FCI Academy, including the webinars to demystify Edifactoring 2.0 and the webinar on Legal Considerations in the post-pandemic period.
Spyros Tsolis explains the digital enhancements for the online courses and the update of the legal course.
Yüce Uyanik presents the book he wrote on Understanding the General Rules for International Factoring: a Comprehensive Guide. This book will help FCI members to examine the diverse views relating to the GRIF.
Thompson Lui summarizes his view on the foreign investments that have changed in the South and South-East Asia Market and the recent initiative in India.
Xinbin Li (ICBC) elucidates on the new mission of trade finance in reshaping working capital lending. He compares the risk for a traditional loan and how trade finance can provide a solution to the problem of information asymmetry in the regular working capital loan.
Finally, you can read how FCI spread its wings during the last quarter including participation in the UNIDROIT working group.
This edition is packed full of interesting articles and key industry insights, we hope you enjoy the reading.