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Tell FCI who your “General Correspondence” person is.
Distribute information to the right person(s) in your organisation.
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A first important step is to tell the FCI Secretariat whom you have designated as the FCI “General Correspondence” person in your organisation. This is the person to whom the FCI Secretariat will send all routine mail and messages.
A first important step is to tell the FCI Secretariat whom you have designated as the FCI “General Correspondence” person in your organisation. This is the person to whom the FCI Secretariat will send all routine mail and messages.
This same person also has the responsibility for going into the MY FCI on a regular basis in order to download FCI circulars, manuals, etc. and ensuring that these documents are distributed to the right person(s) in your organisation. Normally also the other FCI members will approach the “General Correspondence” person when they want to start doing business with you.
Sometimes the Secretariat sends a general e-mail message to all members and this makes it impossible to include the name of a person or a department. Such a message will instead be directed to the “General Correspondence” person. It is therefore very important that everyone is fully aware of who the General Correspondence person is within your organisation.
All in all, this person plays a vital role as an “ambassador” for your organisation. The selected person must therefore be fluent in spoken and written English, must be accessible most of the time and is typically not a senior executive, too busy to deal with international factoring on a daily basis. More likely, the “General Correspondence Person” will be the International Manager, responsible specifically for the development of the export and import factoring business.
The General Correspondence Person has one more task. The FCI Public Website lists all FCI members and their respective contact details. The name of the General Correspondence Person is on this website and if a potential export factoring seller wishes to contact your organisation, they will address themselves to the General Correspondence person.