- The German factoring association (Deutscher Factoring-Verband e.V.) was established in 1974 and is based in Berlin.
- The German factoring association (Deutscher Factoirng-Verband e.V.) is a knowledgeable point of contact for the public on all questions related to factoring and it provides precise information about the factoring industry to the press.
- The association maintains a close contact to other industries and associations representing the German economy.
- The German factoring association (Deutscher Factoring-Verband e.V.) is a founding member of the EU Federation for Factoring and Commercial Finance (EUF) and thereby also represented on an EU-level. In Berlin, the association is also a member of the federation of German wholesale, foreign trade and services (BGA -Bundesverband Großhandel, Außenhandel, Dienstleistungen e.V.).
- support and protection of factoring as a product, cf. bylaws (Satzung)
- maintaining fair tax, legal and economic basic parameters
- representation of common interests on national and international levels (e.g. through EUF)
- PR and external communications
- Network factoring (events, congresses, seminars, etc.)
- University-contacts (Forschungsinstitut für Bankbetriebslehre der Universität zu Köln)
- Membership as „quality label“
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