Join us for a two-day virtual workshop designed specifically for professionals in the factoring industry, where we'll tackle one of the most pressing challenges: fraud. As the factoring landscape evolves, so do the tactics employed by fraudsters. This comprehensive workshop will provide you with the insights necessary to recognize, prevent, and respond to fraudulent activities that can threaten your business.
Don’t miss this opportunity to fortify your knowledge and protect your business! Register now to secure your spot and ensure that you’re equipped to navigate the complexities of fraud in the factoring world.
The Venue: Online Via Zoom
The Schedule:
Tuesday, December 8, 2026: 8am - 12pm PST (Pacific)
8:00am - 8:45am - Attorney Case Study #1
8:45am - 9:30am - Attorney Case Study #2
9:30am - 10:15am - Attorney Case Study #3
10:30am - 12:00pm - Technology Panel Discussion
Wednesday, December 9, 2026: 8am - 11am PST (Pacific)
8:00am - 8:45am - Attorney Case Study #4
8:45am - 9:30am - Attorney Case Study #5
9:30am - 11:00am - Factoring Panel Discussion
Key Objectives:
- Understanding the Landscape: Gain a comprehensive overview of the current fraud trends in the factoring industry, including emerging scams and common red flags.
- Real-World Case Studies: Learn from detailed case studies that highlight recent fraud incidents and the lessons learned, helping you identify vulnerabilities in your own processes.
- Fraud Prevention Strategies & Tools: Discover effective strategies and tools to strengthen your fraud prevention protocols, including due diligence best practices and innovative technological solutions.
- Legal Expertise: Hear from legal experts surrounding fraud cases, exploring the latest trends, challenges, and best practices in the field.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is ideal for factoring professionals, risk managers, compliance officers, and anyone involved in factoring who seeks to enhance their understanding of fraud prevention in the industry. This workshop will address all aspects of the factoring industry and is not limited to any specific niche.
Attorneys:
David Jencks, Esq. - Attorney, Jencks Law, P.C.
David Jencks is an attorney with more than 25 years of experience in transportation and transportation finance. He represents factors and transportation companies in both transactional matters and litigation. David is a member of the Transportation Lawyers Association and serves as co–general counsel to the International Factoring Association. For nearly two decades, he has been a featured keynote speaker at the IFA’s Annual Conference and its Transportation Factoring Meeting. He has also led numerous trainings and webinars on all facets of transportation factoring, including account management, credit, technology issues, fraud prevention, risk management, problem-load resolution, billing practices, and legal compliance.
Jocelyne Macelloni, Esq. - Partner, Barakat & Bossa
Jocelyne A. Macelloni is a board-certified business litigation attorney whose practice focuses on high-stakes commercial disputes, with particular depth in representing secured creditors, factoring companies, asset-based lenders, construction companies, and real estate investors. Jocelyne has extensive experience advising and litigating on behalf of factors and asset-based lenders across a wide range of industries, particularly construction, freight forwarding, import-export trade, and employment. She regularly handles creditor claims, enforcement of secured creditor rights in bankruptcy proceedings, and complex post-judgment collections, including the pursuit of fraudulent transfer claims and cross-border asset tracing.
Jason Medley, Esq. - Partner, Spencer Fane
Jason Medley helps banks and other financial institutions structure transactions in a manner that enables them to be efficiently closed, allowing for key stakeholders to maximize benefits and avoid unnecessary delays or costs. His work fully encompasses all aspects of contract negotiations, workouts, intercreditor relations, and secured party collections. Jason represents banks, factoring companies (purchase and sale of accounts receivable), and real estate entities in a wide variety of transactional matters from due diligence to contract negotiations, workouts, intercreditor relations, and secured party collections. He has almost 25 years of extensive experience in asset-based loan (ABL) financing and uniquely serves as a preferred attorney for the International Factoring Association, which assists with providing information, training, purchasing power, and resources to the Factoring community.
Laurie Montplaisir, Esq. - Partner, Krieg DeVault LLP
Laurie A. Montplaisir concentrates her practice in the areas of finance, secured lending, corporate transactions, participations and workouts, and business acquisition and sales, with an emphasis in the asset based lending and factoring industry. She has significant experience in due diligence, purchase agreements, financing documentation, forbearance and workout documents, and interparty documentation in alternative lending transactions. Laurie frequently serves as outside general counsel to her clients on a myriad of legal issues related to business formation and structuring, financing, contract negotiation and drafting, transactional matters, employment matters, general business needs, and litigation. She is the Founder of the International Factoring Association (IFA) Midwest Chapter established October 2018.
Jared Ullman, Esq. - Partner - Ullman & Ullman, P.A.
Jared Ullman is a principal with the law firm Ullman & Ullman, P.A., located in Boca Raton, Florida. Ullman & Ullman has been co-counsel to the International Factoring Association for more than 20 years and has been advising and counseling factors and lenders for more than 45 years. Jared has represented factors, forfaiting companies, and various asset-based lenders, including purchase order, equipment, and inventory finance companies, in a host of areas, including, among others, transactions, due diligence issues, regulatory matters, workouts, Chapter 11 bankruptcy matters (including post-petition debtor-in-possession financing), and litigation in state and federal courts, as well as complex domestic and international commercial arbitration.
Panelists: TBA
Fee: $495 per person for IFA Members and Ally Members ($795 for Non-Members)
Price is per attendee. A unique participant ID will be sent to all attendees.