Diego Tavecchia Head of Research, Technical Committees and International Affairs Department, Assifact Diego Tavecchia graduated in International Economics and Finance from the University of Milan, where he also obtained his PhD in Business History and Corporate Finance with a dissertation about the effects of factoring on Italian businesses. Since 2007 he has been working at Assifact, the Italian Association for Factoring, where he is currently Head of the Research, Technical Committees and International Affairs Department. He established and chaired the Economics and Statistics Committee of the EUF, the European Federation of Factoring, for several years and is currently Chairman of the Prudential Risk Committee of the Federation.