Almanach PZF 2016

SIMON PETERMAN
FCIs Central and East European Regional Chapter
FCI has always been devoted to representing the factoring industry with
a strong global and regional focus. Through the merger with IFG, FCI
was able to give an even bigger emphasis on the importance of regions
by adding the Central and East European and the African Chapter to
its existing Asian and Latin American Chapters. Through our network
of regional Chapters, we hope to better represent our members needs on
a more localized basis through organizing events and activities which have
a particular focus on regional issues and supports our members in building
their businesses.
The role of the CEE Chapter is to actively stay in touch with local
members or even outsiders from the region to understand the problems
and needs of the factoring community and find ways for FCI to support
them and on the other hand also promote FCI and its other Committees
and Chapters.
It is important to understand that the CEE region is not a unilateral
region of countries with very similar economic, regulatory and even business
environments. Just looking at the map it is obvious that countries like
Albania, Russia, Romania and Turkey have little in common. Not only are
there great differences in culture, history and languages, but the factoring
industry has made very different routes in the past three decades that the
industry has been present.
But there are counties within CEE that have certain similarities, either
historic, regulatory or economic that do help a bit in structuring our work.
And for this reason we also organized the CEE Chapter Committee in the
way to best represent the very diverse regions of Central Europe, South
East Europe and the CIS by including representatives from each region to
be present as CEE Chapter Committee Member. Poland is represented by