Tools for meetings industry companies: credit and delayed payment for events

Date:	Friday 2 July
Time:	11.00-12.00
Room:	Diotallevi 1
Educational track:	SMEs on the march

Credit granted to companies has slowed markedly since the last quarter of 2008. Business lending growth rates continued to fall throughout 2009 and into early 2010. This seminar will present a brief summary of the latest information on companies’ access to credit and their relations with banks, gathered through the surveys conducted by the Bank of Italy. This will give participants a better understanding of the supply and demand factors affecting lending, and shed light on the dynamics between the world of credit and business sectors, the multi-faceted nature of which is often neglected owing to the focus placed on aggregate data and average trends. The second half of the seminar will include a presentation from Incentive Factor, a financial agency that offers corporate organisations the chance to delay payment for events by credit factoring: the cost of this transaction is borne by the organising agency, which can, however, provide a service to its client.

Moderator: Alan Pini Chairman of Italcongressi-PCO Italia and Vice-President of Federcongressi

Speakers: Massimiliano Rigon, Bank of Italy representative, Department of Regional Economic Analysis and Research, Milan office Mario Nolli, Incentive Factor Chairman Avv. Giampiero Bertoli, UBI Factor Managing Director

Organised by: Learning Center Federcongressi

The seminar will be translated into English