Over the last few months the Italian Association of Credit Managers (ACMI) has been having a positive impact on the ACMI Rome delegation. First on 23 September the “Credit Management and Value Creation” training meeting was held. Then on 14 and 15 October the Sheraton Golf Hotel & Resort hosted the 21st National Congress entitled “Pro-active people for managing change and development today”.

The ACA was established in the US in 1939, and presently has 4,500 member companies in the United States and in more than 50 countries around the globe. Most members handle a wide range of consumer collections accounts, and several have credit reporting and skip tracing capabilities as well. The ACA regularly provides seminars and conferences to inform members of current legal regulations in many countries and also provides advanced professional credit and collection training.

Cette association regroupe les personnes physiques ou morales qui par leur profession ou dans l'exercice de leurs activités, s'intéressent aux procédures, techniques de gestion financières et de trésorerie, ou les technologies utilisées dans le traitement de l'information financière, telles qu'elles se posent à l'Administration, aux Entreprises, aux Collectivités Publiques ou Privées, et aux ONG en Côte d'Ivoire.

La Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO) est l'Institut d'émission commun aux huit (8) Etats membres de l'Union Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UMOA). La BCEAO est un établissement public international dont le siège est fixé à Dakar. Outre l'émission des signes monétaires dans les Etats membres de l'Union dont elle a le privilège exclusif, la BCEAO a en charge :
- la centralisation des réserves de devises de l'Union
- la gestion de la politique monétaire des Etats membres de l'Union
- la tenue des comptes des Trésors des Etats de l'Union
- la définition de la loi bancaire applicable aux banques et aux établissements financiers

Dansk Kredit Råd (Danish Credit Management Association) is an association dedicated to networking between companies, working professionally with credit management.
Membership value is created through professional events, education, knowledge sharing and through our interaction with legislators and other organizations. Our aim is to work for a high professional standard of credit management in the Danish business community and to secure the professional interests of our membership companies.

FCIB : an Association of Executives in Finance, Credit & International Business
Founded in 1919, FCIB is an international credit management association with more than 1000 member companies in over 30 countries worldwide.

Federation of Business Information Service.
FEBIS has developed into a sizeable league comprising more than 60 business information and debt collection agencies of nation-wide and international importance.
Supported by a combined work force of more than 11,000 staff, FEBIS member companies generate over 25 million business information reports annually for over 400,000 European organisations, providing these clients with valuable business support. Aggregate sales turnover of all FEBIS member firms is worth more than ECU 1.5 billion a year.

FECMA was founded in 1986. Its members are all national credit management associations and currently there are 14 members.
Our vision is to promote best practice in credit management by enabling the members of all the FECMA associations to share their knowledge and experience.

FENCA - General information
Since the establishment of the Federation of European National Collection Associations, several countries have joined the Federation. In 2004, 14 countries were part of the process.

FENCA, founded 15th January 1993, is the non profit-making umbrella of National associations and aims to:
# Protect and take care of the interests of the national member associations;
# Promote the development of European legislation within the debt collection industry;
# Promote the development within national member associations of the following:
* Keep the collected means for clients separated form the company means.
* Have special insurance for the protection of the clients.
* Establish a committee for complaints.
* Establish training facilities.
* Introduce basic rules and guidelines for contracts and agreements between the agencies and their clients.

IACCM is a not for profit professional association dedicated to the interests of contract and commercial managers, negotiators, and others directly involved in the contracting process. With members from more than 80 countries and over 500 corporations, IACCM is proud of its innovation and outstanding research and networking capabilities. Membership is drawn from sales contracting, business development and procurement communities. The association is growing fast and offers an increasing range of services, professional certifications, and training (online and classroom-based).