Education for Credit & Collections Professionals

ABC-Amega offers free access to educational webinars produced by the Federation of Credit & Financial Professionals, a division of the Credit Research Foundation (CRF). This offering is the result of our status as a CRF Platinum Partner. These programs focus on education and professional development in credit, accounts receivable management, and related financial topics that are relevant to the work that you and your team perform each day.

Upcoming Webinars:

IDENTITY CRISIS: Risks and Best Practices When Doing Business With Newly Acquired Entities and Conglomerates

Presented by Lowenstein Sandler LLP & CRF
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 – 3:00pm ET

The ongoing trend of businesses changing hands, merging, and otherwise reshuffling their organizational charts reached a fever pitch during the zero-interest economic era of 2020-2022. Changes in a customer’s ownership, business structure, or both, or dealing with a customer that is part of a conglomerate, will result in changes to the credit risk your company faces.

This program discusses, with practical examples, the risks and best practices that a credit professional should follow when doing business with customers that have merged with or been acquired by another company, have rearranged their assets and liabilities, or are otherwise part of a complex corporate structure including multiple affiliated companies. The speakers will discuss best practices for identifying changes in ownership and corporate structure and relationships with affiliated entities (including actual case studies), and the tools and tactics to protect your business from the ever-shifting risks created thereby.

Speakers:
Bruce S. Nathan, Partner, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Andrew Behlmann, Partner, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Mike Papandrea, Counsel, Lowenstein Sandler LLP

CLICK HERE to register. This webinar is FREE for CRF Members.

(Use Coupon Code CADEDU at checkout to attend for free.)

Economic Update – Business Activity & the Consequences for Credit

Presented by CRF
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 – 12:00pm ET

JSI Analytics will provide an overview of the high inflationary years 2022 to 2024. The resulting changes in consumers purchasing behavior and how that impacted businesses will be shown quantitatively. Higher interest rates were needed to bring inflation under control. Interest rates may remain relatively high through the end of 2025, and we’ll discuss the further ramifications for various industry sectors.

Speaker:
Paul Hill, Business Economist, Inventor, Founder & President of JSI Analytics