Member Profile

Quarterback was founded by experienced executives with the aim to provide tailor-made specialist advice and education programs for financial institutions as well as corporate clients in the area of innovative trade finance solutions.

Quarterback works globally with multinationals, commercial banks, factoring companies, funds and alternative financiers.

Quarterback will facilitate implementation of products for financial institutions to provide secure finance for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME-s) by using specialist products such as Factoring, Invoice Discounting, Forfaiting, Asset Based Lending and Structured Commodity Financing.

Quarterback helps in all critical areas to develop plans and achieve goals

QUARTERBACK provides tailor-made training and professional advice with specific focus on trade finance products (e.g. factoring, forfaiting, supply chain finance, …) covering also topics such as

 general management (effective leadership and management, building effective teams, communication and presentation skills, time management, critical decision making skills, cross cultural understanding and communication);

 strategic management (formulating strategy, creating business plans, marketing strategies, change management and corporate culture);

 projects (project management, project finance, negotiating skills);

 specific topics to financial institutions: TFP, corporate & SME (risk management, relationship management, problem recognition and remedial action, marketing of financial services)

Our training programs can be delivered in additional languages than English, such as German, French and Romanian.

QUARTERBACK provides tailor-made training and professional advice with specific focus on trade finance products (e.g. factoring, forfaiting, supply chain finance). Our training programs can be delivered in additional languages than English, such as German, French and Romanian.

Quarterback works globally with multinationals, commercial banks, factoring companies, funds and alternative financiers.

Quarterback will facilitate implementation of products for financial institutions to provide secure finance for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME-s) by using specialist products such as Factoring, Invoice Discounting, Forfaiting, Asset Based Lending and Structured Commodity Financing.

We can assist with:

o Trade Finance Innovation solutions

o Business Introduction

o Trade Finance Business Model Mapping

o Strategic Management Programs

o Project based assignments

o Specialist topics to Financial Institutions

European Reconstruction and Development Bank (EBRD),

African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank)

PTA Bank

International Factors Group/Factors Chain International

Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger has worked in Trade Finance with a special focus on Forfaiting and Factoring for most of her professional life, first with Barclays Bank, and then with Midland Bank Aval in London before joining West Merchant Bank (now WestLB AG) where she had Global responsibility for forfaiting and factoring within WestLB AG, which was market leader in these products world-wide. Margrith joined FIMBank on 1st April 2003 as Executive Vice President, responsible for Business Development and was appointed to President on 1st September 2004. She retired as President on 31st December 2014, after more than a decade as President to become an Advisor to the FIMBank Group and other industry members.

In March 2014 Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger was awarded the highest decoration of the Republic of Malta, that of the National Order of Merit, in recognition of her 'exceptional contribution towards the common good of the Maltese and the development of Malta as a financial centre.'

Margrith was educated in Switzerland and was a board member of the Swiss Association of Forfaiters (1983), and founding Chairman of the Association of Forfaiters in the Americas in 1995.

In 1999, Mrs. Lütschg-Emmenegger co-founded the International Forfaiting Association (IFA) were she served as the Deputy Chairman until September 2003.

In October 2013, Margrith was elected as Chairman of International Factors Group (IFG) where she served as a Board Member since 2011. Margrith is also supporting the training and education efforts/projects of IFG especially the “Certificate of Finance in International Trade” (COFIT) in cooperation/certified by the University of Malta.

 EBRD (UK) Training for senior management on factoring

 PTA BANK (Kenya) Staff training on Trade Finance / Factoring as well as Diagnostic exercise to improve Trade Finance offerings

 AFREXIMBANK (Egypt) Development and Implementation of Forfaiting

 COFIT selected trainer program certified by University of Malta with IFG

Margrith Lutschg-Emmenegger has written many articles in specialist publications, like Global Trade Review (GTR), Forfaiting Review, Euromoney etc.

Margrith Lutschg-Emmenegger has also written a book titled “A guide to Forfaiting” published by Euromoney in 1998.

She is a regular speaker on the subject of trade finance

Margrith Lutschg-Emmenegger has written many articles in specialist publications, like Global Trade Review (GTR), Forfaiting Review, Euromoney etc.

Margrith Lutschg-Emmenegger has also written a book titled “A guide to Forfaiting” published by Euromoney in 1998.

She is a regular speaker on the subject of trade finance.

Margrith Lutschg-Emmenegger was award the highest decoration of the Republic of Malta, that of the National Order of Merit, in recognition of her exceptional contribution towards the common good of the Maltese and the development of Malta as a financial centre.