Members Only Teleconferences

Teleconferences
FCIB Teleconferences are equivalent to one-quarter (1/4) Participation Point

Economic and Political Risks to Growth: Will They Affect Your Business?

Chartis Economist Carolyne Spackman will discuss macroeconomic and political trends in the world today, as well as key risks that may impact businesses going forward.

Update on the EU Directive on Late Payments

The new Late Payment Directive—2011/7/ EU—significantly tightens the rules on late payment in commercial transactions. This 45-minute overview will bring members up to date on the current rules affecting credit management professionals.

2013 Global Economic Outlook

With his usual dose of wit and wisdom, Dr. Chris Kuehl will take FCIB members on a comprehensive tour of international events and offer his expert opinions on how they will affect the global economy. It promises to be a “can’t miss” event so mark the date and time in your calendar.

Global Economic Update – Byron M. Shoulton

There's much uncertainty surrounding the future of the eurozone – what will happen if Greece departs the currency union and the likely impact on global growth as austerity bites in a number of European countries. China's slowdown is also tied into loss of demand across Europe and the wobbly recovery still unfolding in the U.S. These concerns and their impact on the global economic outlook over the next 18 months are ripe for analysis and commentary. International economist, Byron Shoulton, will provide a comprehensive look at the global economy and provide his expert opinions.

Economics that Influence Foreign Exchange – Kevin Hebner

Aside from factors such as interest rates and inflation, the exchange rate is one of the most critical determinants of a country’s relative level of economic health. Exchange rates play a key and critical role in a country’s level of trade – core to free market economies – making exchange rates among the most watched and analyzed economic measures. As economic forces change, so do profit levels.

Accounts Receivable Put Options

Accounts Receivable Put Options is a product that can offer your company protection on 100% of each invoice amount in the event that your customer, a publicly traded company, declares bankruptcy. Accounts Receivable Put Options, only sold by financial institutions, is a credit risk management tool that can address the ever increasing concern that vendors have about their customers’ credit quality and financial stability.

2012 Global Economic Outlook

With apologies to Clint Eastwood, this would seem the most apt description of the economy at the moment. Retail numbers are looking far more substantial than expected and manufacturers are planning to expand their capital expenditures (this is the good part). The bad – unemployment remains high, housing is still in the doldrums and credit remains tight. The ugly – the political impact on the economy, with everything from the super fiasco to the scuttling of the euro. These issues and more will be fodder for conversation.

Integrated Relationship Building

Join Tina Ferguson, intuitive business strategist, as she shares how to use left-brain processes with right-brain intuition to improve relationship building with your customers.

• Develop methods to build solid relationships and gain customer trust
• Learn techniques to have customers divulge information which may be critical to the credit decision
• Understand signs that could hint at your customer's probability of loan default
• Trust your gut more — even when rationality tempts you in another direction
• Gain tools to gather information to make better credit decisions—increasing your "hits" and decreasing your "misses"

U.S.' Rating Downgrade: How Will It Impact Credit Managers?

In this timely teleconference, our presenters discuss the credit rating downgrade and provide insight into its impact and ripple effects.

• How will the rating downgrade influence commercial credit and sovereign risk?
• What does this mean to trade credit?
• How will it impact credit managers?

Global Economic Outlook for 2011

This teleconference will look at three scenarios as far as 2011 growth is concerned.

• US and Europe work through their issues and join the parade in the first half of the year.
• Recovery is led almost entirely by the Asian economies and a few others.
• The world slips back into a real downturn again.

Collecting Receivables and Judgments in the US

• Overview of the U.S Court System
• Considerations in pursuing claimgs
• Foreign judgment collections
• Enforcement of claims and judgments: remedies
• Attorney's fees associated with collections

Doing Business In the Middle East and Asia

• First impressions, relationships and knowing your market/partner
• Financials or subjective assessment in the absence of financial information; middlemen; credit information reports; potential warning signs and security?
• Contracts, insolvency differences, guarantees and collections

Evaluating Scoring Models for Global Portfolios

• Evaluate the types of global portfolio credit and collection scoring models and methodologies available
• Understand the predictive value of utilizing internal A/R and collection performance data
• Learn the best practice use of scoring to help increase cash flow, reduce delinquencies, losses, and costs through risk based collections versus aging based collections
• Better leverage existing staff by using updated technologies
• Consider the dollars at risk when creating new collection strategies and calculating bad debt reserves