Michelle DeMarchi, General Secretary of UNIREC – the National Union of Credit Protection Companies, an association belonging to Confindustria SIT, which brings together 80% of credit management service companies in Italy – was appointed Vice President of FENCA (Federation of European National Collection Associations), whose board she joined in October last year.
FENCA, the European federation of national associations of the sector of which UNIREC is a member, was founded in 1993 and brings together 23 national associations which represent 75% of credit management, recovery and purchase companies in Europe.
As part of his two-year assignment at FENCA, De Marchi will be responsible, in coordination with the board of the federation and in direct contact with the European institutions, promoting the continuous improvement of credit protection practices and the reference regulatory context in order to guarantee the quality of service to companies and to protect the privacy and rights of creditors and sector employees.
Born in 1984, Michela De Marchi is Secretary General of UNIREC since 2017 representing the Italian Association active in the sector at a national level and taking care of its relations with institutional and regulatory bodies. Previously, you worked for Volkswagen AG in the Corporate Relations sector and for a leading Italian lobbying firm, as a Public Policy Analyst.
“This investiture bears witness to the recognition at European level of the successes achieved by UNIREC in Italy – he commented Michelle DeMarchi -. A task that is all the more significant for me in the light of the centrality of the problem relating to the management of loans - and above all of non-performing ones - which has become an element of strong attention from Brussels. Faced with policies that had always concerned only one part of the credit chain, the European institutions have now understood the social and economic importance of the activity carried out by the sector. And this makes it even more essential that there is a federation at European level that can find a synthesis and unanimity of approach and orientation.”
