The Hellenic Association of Risk Managers (H.A.RI.MA.) and the Federation of European Credit Management Associations (FECMA) invites you to attend the 5th Pan-European Congress ”Credit Management in Challenging Times”.

The FECMA Congress is the main event for Credit Risk Officers in Europe whereas for two days, institutional representatives, global solutions’ providers and top-level market practitioners will present and share with the audience best practices and going forward strategies.

The event will be conducted in English and we will be honored with the presence of relevant European institutional bodies and representatives from the Greek State.

FECMA was established in 1986 on the initiative of the late Sir Roger Cork, one time Lord Mayor of London and President of the UK Institute of Credit Management as a not-for-profit organization to promote best practice in credit management across Europe and beyond. Membership of FECMA is made up of national credit management associations, who share the vision of promoting best practice by sharing their knowledge and expertise across national borders.

FECMA aims to:

• exchange credit management knowledge, best practice and ethical standards between associations;

• share and promote research and pool the knowledge gained with each associations’ own members;
• represent the credit management profession at a European level;
• provide support and guidance for members of all associations;
• support and collaborate with existing associations as appropriate and encourage the creation of credit management associations where none exist.

With 1/12/2019 as the date of signing the articles of association by the founding members, 12/12/2019 of filing them with the First Instance Court of Athens under Reg. No. 489461, and 16/12/2019 of commencement of business with the Tax Office of Kallithea, with TIN 997001960, the “Hellenic Association of Risk Managers” (H.A.RI.MA.) Nonprofit Company Under Civil Law was founded; an initiative by a group of senior managers who are involved in the broader field of risk management.

The Association aspires to become the collective body of all Risk Management executives, irrespective of industry and employment specialty in Risk Management.

The role of Risk Managers is extremely important for the business world and even more important for the Capital market, financial institutions, and insurance companies.The Association will come to the aid of their efforts, highlighting and upgrading their role by providing information, training and links to international organizations, as well as holding discussion with government and also with other relevant organizations.

At the same time, the Association will contribute to more effective risk management by the market, by conducting research on the level of preparedness and response of organizations, to risk issues.

The founding members have significant previous experience and technical expertise in Risk Management, in areas such as Financial, Credit, Insurance, Compliance, Market, Commercial, Procurement, Facility, Logistics, Governance, and Data & Cyber risks. The participation of renowned Risk Management academics – teachers completes the spectrum of representation of expert professionals in the Association.

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