Tuesday 19 May 2020
10:00-11:15 BST


Preparing for extreme pressure on risk management and practical advice on how to manage it

  • Examining how to thoroughly and carefully review risk management procedures and practices, as SMEs and corporates attempt to recover
  • Highlighting ways in which companies can ensure that they are operating efficiently to meet the likely increase in risk
  • What kind of businesses should be considered as potential clients? What businesses should be avoided?
  • How can technology best be used in the current situation? What is available in terms of risk management technology?
  • Demonstrating practical steps in how this should be done; what is best practice; what particular risk management needs will practitioners have in the post COVID-19 world?
Michael Bickers
Managing Director, BCR Publishing

Michael Bickers is Managing Director of BCR Publishing Ltd, a specialist publishing company dedicated to the provision of market information on areas of receivables finance including factoring and supply chain finance, through books, the Internet (trfnews.com) and global receivables finance conferences and seminars. He is author of twelve editions of Factoring in the UK, a market report and guide to the UK factoring industry, (1993 – 2008, 2nd and 3rd editions, published by HMSO, other editions BCR); Editor of twenty five editions of the World Factoring Yearbook (published annually by BCR since 1996 in association with FCI); Publisher of the European Trade Finance Yearbook 2012 (BCR in association with EBRD); Editor and joint author of A Review of Global Trade Finance and the Effects of the Current Financial Crises on Emerging Markets - a report commissioned by the World Bank, December 2008; Publisher of the World Supply Chain Finance Report 2010 – 2021; Chapter contributor of Factors and Actors (Peter Lang, 2018); Editor of Equipment Leasing in the UK (HMSO, 1995,1996).; Editor of Venture Capital in the UK (HMSO, 1996); Series Editor, International Business Intelligence Reports (published by the Stationery Office Ltd), 1997. His views, opinions and findings have been printed in leading newspapers and journals including The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Director Magazine, Accountancy Age, Business Age, Chartered Banker, Investors Chronicle and Export Today.
Walter Gontarek Walter Gontarek
Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer, Channel

Walt previously founded and served as global head of credit products at the Royal Bank of Canada and has worked in the City and on Wall Street in various senior capital markets roles. He also served as president of a retail banking platform in the US. Walter holds a doctorate in finance from Cranfield University and an MBA (Finance) from NYU Stern, and has published in leading academic journals on risk governance issues. Walt is a visiting fellow of Cranfield University where he lectures on risk governance and regulation, as well FinTech developments. He serves on financial services companies’ boards and was a named a financial market expert by PRIME finance at its inaugural meeting at the Peace Palace, The Hague in 2012.
Robert Meters
Director, SCHUMANN International

Robert Meters is Director Global Business at SCHUMANN and Director at SCHUMANN International Limited in London. He studied Business Administration and International Management at the University for Economics and Management. He has been in the credit risk management industry since 1993 and has worked for leading information service providers as well as in the telecommunications industry. At SCHUMANN, he advises and takes care of customers in the automation of credit decisions and the implementation of a fully integrated credit management workflow system that also supports onboarding and ESG KYBP processes. SCHUMANN offers the leading credit risk management solution for the financial services sector covering leasing, factoring, banking and trade credit insurance.
Jonathan Parfitt
Director, Origination Corporate & Institutional Banking, ABN AMRO Asset Based Finance

Jonathan has over 25 years’ experience providing asset-based lending (ABL) and trade finance solutions. Based in London, he works with corporate and international clients to provide both receivables purchase solutions, as well as ABL. He generates opportunities from the external market by working with ‘Debt Advisory’ and internally with the Coverage team at ABN AMRO Bank, identifying clients that can benefit from its receivables purchasing and ABL products.

FCI

FCI was set up in 1968 as a non-profit global association for factoring and receivables finance companies around the world. Today, FCI has grown into the world's representative factoring network and association with close to 400 members in 90 countries and member transactions representing nearly 90% of the world’s international correspondent factoring volume. In 2018, FCI added two business line: FCIreverse and Islamic International Factoring. Today, FCI is the global representative body for the factoring and receivables finance industry. FCI offers three major areas of activities: CONNECT: The business network supports cross-border factoring activities through which its members cooperate as export and import factors EDUCATE: FCI promotes and develops best practices in both domestic and international factoring and related Open Account Finance products INFLUENCE: FCI promotes and defends the Industry with stakeholders and policy makers worldwide

Channel Capital

Channel Capital is a London based but globally team technology-enabled business finance in an ever-changing world. Channel is an Alternative Investment Fund Manager, which deploy funds flexibly for corporate clients seeking working capital financing. Channel provides these funds as working capital for a wide array of businesses, including SMEs, medium and large cap corporates operating in global markets. What do we do? Trade Finance Funds: Flexible receivables, payables and inventory financing to companies and attractive returns to investors looking to diversify their portfolios. includes a Sharia-compliant structure. Receivables and Supply Chain Financing Programmes: Expertise in structuring single- or multi-debtor portfolio programmes, combined with bespoke technology solutions, help large corporates gain access to an alternative source of funding. Invoice Factoring for SMEs: web-based financing platform enables SMEs to access a reliable source of working capital to meet their growth targets and develop a better understanding of their liquidity and debtor management.

HPD Lendscape

Cash flow is the lifeblood of a business and we work hard to support and improve SME finance globally, through technology partnerships, innovation, and collaboration. Award winning HPD LendScape is the world’s leading technology vendor for secure lending, currently deployed by over 100 lenders across the UK, EMEA, North America, APAC, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The LendScape team forms a blend of finance professionals, technology experts and developers. Our vision is to continue to develop new capabilities that offer an environment for supporting all secured business lending. LendScape is a cloud first business process management solution for factoring, invoice discounting, supply chain finance and asset finance. The platform streamlines banks' and lenders' systems and reduces risk, whilst cutting down on administration and speeds up ‘invoice to funding’ time. Our customer portfolio spans over 50 markets and includes some of the worlds’ greatest brands in finance. hpdlendscape.com

SCHUMANN

SCHUMANN provides leading credit risk management solutions for the financial sector with excellent references in leasing, factoring, banking and insurance sectors. The standard software CAM Financial Services is an efficient credit risk management software, which provides an automated credit decision engine (DMN Decision Model and Notation, Expert system), technical interfaces to various credit rating agencies and credit insurers (API gateway with 50 partners) as well as compliance processes. It also acts as a fully automated early warning and workflow system (BPMN Business Process Management and Notation). CAM Financial Services is modular and flexibly configurable and can be adapted to the specific customer needs. The system can be fully integrated into customer IT environments for efficient, company-wide and global straight through processes. CAM Financial Services enables a transformation of classic processes into efficient digital processes and secure, cost-saving implementation of legal and regulatory requirements.

TRF News

In a fast-changing world, trfnews, which is part of BCR, is designed to keep you up to date with the latest news and developments in factoring and supply chain finance. Stay informed about the impact of Covid 19, new senior appointments, mergers and acquisitions, the latest deals happening within the industry on global basis.