First WOA Community Convention 7-8 October

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Open account business – buy now, pay later – drives economic activity worldwide. It’s a key contributor to global growth. Finance specialists fund and protect this business with receivables finance solutions. Key stakeholders work with them to create a whole open account ecosystem. WOA is their professional community. Open and accessible for all. Collaboration-based. Digitally driven. Focused on innovation and knowledge.

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Latest News

Meet the Experts Part 4 : Factoring
15/08/2019
Register now for the most important receivables finance conference of the year!
14/08/2019
Emerging and Developing Markets for Factoring - Opportunities and Challenges
13/08/2019
Serbia : a market overview
13/08/2019
Free WOA webinar on Inventory Financing on 3rd of December
12/08/2019
Interview with Dr. Lawrence Ma (YC 84), President of The Hong Kong Blockchain Society in The Politic
12/08/2019
Meet the Experts Part 3 : International Factoring
09/08/2019

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Agenda

The fintech perspective - Securitisation-as-a-Service
10/09/19
The sixth e-roundtable session organized by WOA's Learning Lab on Receivables as an Asset Class. Join André Casterman together with lawyer Christian Faber and experts from Tradeteq Christoph Gugelmann and Nils Behling for another interesting discussion
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Emerging and Developing Markets for Factoring - Opportunities and Challenges
17/09/19
The WOA Learning Lab ‘Setting Up and Growing a Receivables Finance Operation’. published a series of papers which focus on a number of emerging and developing factoring markets from around the world.

This e-panel will be the perfect opportunity to discuss findings, issues and ideas with the WOA community.
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First WOA Community Convention - "A World of Opportunities"
07/10/19
Register now! The first WOA Convention will take place in Antwerp, Belgium on 7-8. October 2019.
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The lawyer’s perspective - Legal challenges and considerations
12/11/19
The last e-roundtable session of 2019 organized by WOA's Learning Lab on Receivables as an Asset Class. Join André Casterman together with lawyer Christian Faber for another interesting discussion
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Financing Inventory in Europe
03/12/19
This web-meeting will look into practical considerations for financing inventory in Europe. The presenters will discuss how receivable financiers can move into this Asset Based Lending (ABL) activity. What are the challenges? How to manage risks related to inventory financing?

Following topics will be addressed:
- Types of Security Interest in European Inventory
- Fundamentals of Inventory Finance: Ownership - Controls - Location - Value - Realisation
- Inventory Valuation and the concept of NOLV (Net Orderly Liquidation Value)
- How to build an Inventory Borrowing Base
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WOA New Year's Event : 16th of January 2020 at DLA Piper in London
16/01/20
The World of Open Account Community gathers in London at the start of the new year.
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