Almanach PZF r. VII_Faktoring 2017

JOHN BREHCIST
FCI Global Industry Activity Report for 2016
The FCI Global Industry Annual Report GIAR project has now been running
since 2009 and it provides us a unique opportunity to look at the
development of the Industry through time.
What makes it different from many other surveys is that, as well as
investigating the quantitative and numeric aspects of the industry, in this
project we also consider a wide range of the qualitative elements and try
to assess the general sentiment of its key participants.
1. Quantitative Analysis
From the 2016 survey, let’s first look at some of the numeric information,
consider the deductions we can make from this wide-ranging set of data,
and where appropriate look at the corresponding position in Poland.
At the time of writing this analysis, data collection is still not completely
finalised but we do have information that relates to around 80% of the
global volume of the factoring and invoice finance industry, so we can draw
some reasonable conclusions, recognising that the absolute values in some
categories may yet change a little. The results we have can be considered
indicative of the world wide overall position.
A continuing challenge for the survey remains the fact that the capability
of infrastructure in various countries to collect and analyse data
varies – and so the levels of detail that individual markets are able to
provide – is still highly variable. Some countries like Poland have sophisticated
centralised methods for collating market information, others have
little provision and for these we then have to rely upon the best estimates
of experts within those markets.
Faktoring. Almanach Polskiego Związku Faktorów • 5 (2015)