If you need Consultants
In your process of establishing a factoring operation, and/or soon after the start of your activities, you may find that you need expert advice in one or more areas.
A word of warning!
Factoring is a very specialised industry that requires specific expertise. This expertise can only be acquired by becoming a true factoring professional after many years of exposure in the industry.
If you are in a country where factoring is not yet established, you will hardly be able to find consultants who have the expertise to serve you. Even in countries where factoring is long established, it is difficult to find true independent specialists (persons who are not already employed by factor).
Whilst you may find, or even be approached by, consultants willing to offer you all kind of services and claiming expertise in this field, you should be very cautious before engaging them. Have you ever met a consultant who wants to serve you but at the same time he tells you that he has no idea of what he is taking about?
Ask FCI
The FCI Executive Committee has endorsed the idea to make Ms. Aysen Çetintas, FCI Education Director and Mr. Spyros Tsolis, FCI Education Officer available for on-the-spot training for new FCI members who joined the organisation during the past two years. The purpose is to offer guidance in the process of setting up FCI Two-Factor business and facilitating the new member’s integration into FCI.
Ms. Çetintas & Mr. Tsolis will act as a specialist consultants, sharing with you their extensive factoring experience acquired from their previous senior management positions and from their thorough understanding of FCI practices and procedures. For further information and for discussing an appropriate program, you can contact the FCI Secretariat (see also Tailor-made Training Programme).
If you need a specialised consultant on a specific issue, or complete assistance in setting up your new factoring operation, FCI may be able to put you in touch with the person you need. FCI has a database of factoring professionals, all with several years of factoring management experience in many different markets. If FCI can find a professional who is willing to assist you, all further negotiations regarding the engagement must be conducted directly by yourself. FCI will not help you in this.