Autore: Marco
The Group profile
AZ InfoCollection is a Group focused in Credit and Anti-fraud services.
It is also active in the intelligence & security market and heritage protection working in all the Italian market. Clients are the major national financial institutions, international funds, utilities companies, retail companies and SME’s.
The AZ approach in the credit management is unique. Thanks to the deep expertise in NPL individual infoproviding and the proprietary database, the Group is able to target excellent recovery performances in all asset class (Secured-Unsecured/ Individual-SMEs-Corporate).
Founded in 1974 by Antonino Restino, the Group is organised into specialised operating companies located at the offices in Milan, Rome and Naples. Its clients are Italy’s leading insurance firms, banks, consumer credit companies, credit servicers, financiers, legal firms, large corporations, utilities companies and SMEs.
Each sector/market where AZ operates has specific features in which the Group management has invested resources, rethinking and redesigning the existing structure with a disruptive logic.
AZ: sectors of activity and competitive edge
- Infoproviding is the information production and profiling sector supporting loan supply and/or debt collection activities; it also assists in classification of risk for credit protection and protection against insurance fraud;
- The fraud sector, where the Group has been present for decades, is currently a best practice in the sector.
Know-how, organisation and centralisation of the complex network of information sources and processing phases are three factors which give the group its competitive edge and guarantee service performance and quality.
Consolidated processes, highly efficient Kpi and a consolidated nationwide presence are competitive advantages which are hard to beat for smaller players or newcomers.
The Group’s debt collection activities range across substandard and doubtful loans originating in various sectors which potentially cover the entire spectrum of distressed assets.
Technology and the proprietary database guarantee efficiency and performance which, together with the high costs of purchasing infrastructures, are a barrier to entry into the sector.
The strengths of the AZ Group
The Group’s competitive edge derives from its huge proprietary database, to which thousands of pieces of information are added every single day; centralisation and control of information sources and processing phases, know-how, technology, a nationwide presence and decades of experience have been transformed into the ability to create flexible processes and solutions. The licences the Group holds and its ISO 27001 certified data protection and security system (it is the first Italian company in the sector to have obtained it) are further points of strength ranging across all Group activities.
These are the principal reasons behind the rapid growth of AZ over the last two years and the consolidated credibility it has gained over time.
Growth strategy and plans
Future growth is planned both by strengthening the physical channel of business development and – above all – by using the digital channel, which is destined to become the means of dialogue between the company and its market, for delivery of services and also in assisting clients and discovering their needs.
The proprietary database and the data it contains will be further improved by enhancing instruments such as analytics and business intelligence.
The database will be a SIC (Credit Information System) which, with use of web interfaces created using the most advanced user experience know-how, will be accessible to the various contributors (banks, financiers, credit management companies, bad banks, etc.) to check the risk profiles of a single or multiple positions. Various dossiers for acquisition of one or more companies to prompt growth in external activities are also being examined.
Financial profile and shareholders
Shareholders
- 92.50% Antonino Restino
- 7.50% Riccardo Restino
Top Management
- Carmine Evangelista – CEO
- Antonio Orefice – CFO
Principal financial data 2013
2013 | /000 |
Total revenues | 5.781 |
Operating Profit | 877 |
EBIT | 696 |
Net profit | 442 |
Financial position | 1.637 |
Shareholders’ equity | 2.633 |
Revenues by business sector | |
Infoproviding | 40% |
Insurance fraud | 40% |
Asset protection | 12% |
Intelligence | 8% |
Sector of reference
The sector of reference is an infoprovider and credit bureau for financial and insurance services, financial and economic big data analysis and clustering aimed at a credit information system (SIC) for financial and insurance risk scoring.
Protection of heritage: AZ InfoCollection protects your assets
With the service of “heritage protection” the AZ Group offers a range of services customized to your needs of defense.
AZ InfoCollection, a leading company within the infoproviding sector and credit servicing, offers the business of heritage protection that allows to defend personal assets through the procedures of pre-assessment and audit.
The service of heritage protection provides complete protection of corporate and personal property, providing technological and professional know-how for large or small organizations, at affordable costs.
The heritage protection service is a wide activity which is divided into a number of sub-services:
- Environmental remediation: tool for the protection against interception of information or sensitive data;
- Computing reclamation: a process which identifies unauthorized access into the network or IT or detects spy software installed on a PC;
- Video surveillance: a system that allows, through the installation of audio surveillance, protection of heritage and protection of public order;
- Anti-intrusion: these systems provides for monitoring and safe management of internal and external areas of specific environments;
- Goods geolocation: heritage protection can be obtained through the use of instruments with GPS technology.
Why to choose the service AZ InfoCollection?
The services group of Heritage Protection of AZ InfoCollection is done internally by a pool of highly qualified and skilled technicians, regularly subject to intensive training courses.
The use of the best technical equipment, short response times and operations throughout the Italian territory, guaranteed by the strategic presence of AZ InfoCollection in the offices of Milan, Rome and Naples, differentiates and distinguishes the group from other competitors.
Precisely for this reason, customers such as Fincantieri, Prysmian, Pirelli and Michael Kors rely on the professionalism and experience of AZ InfoCollection.
For more information please contact AZ InfoCollection:
- Email: info@azinfocollection.it
- Phone: +39 02 76022442
- Skype: azholdingspa
- Whatsapp: +39 349 06 77 056
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AZ InfoCollection is growing. New headquarter and new space for the team from Naples
During the presentation of the new business plan in 2015, AZ InfoCollection, a credit servicing company and leader in infoproviding, inaugurated on Friday, 9 January, the new headquarters in Agnano.
After forty years spent in the headquarters in Naples, in Santa Lucia n. 50, AZ InfoCollection grows and doubles: there will be, in fact, two principals in Campania, reflecting the will of the Group’s development led by Antonino Restino.
The Group, which in May 2014 joined the important circuit Elite of the Italian Stock Exchange, is ready to live a new and important chapter in the development perfectly interpreting the vision of renewal, dynamism and expansion of AZ InfoCollection.
The desire to plan for the future, to change and to innovate is translated into a new space of over 500 square meters, consisting of about 10 highly functional operating offices.
The first tenants of the new headquarters in Via Antiniana n. 2 were professionals of the team of Post-Trust. By February the team of Agnano will be completed.
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Welcome service by AZ InfoCollection: a combination of professionalism and experience
AZ InfoCollection, a group of companies consolidated in the sector of infoproviding and known as credit servicer, never runs out of battery and surprises us by presenting one of its most important services, in which know-how and professionalism are revealed everyday: welcome service.
Based in Milan (coordination headquarters), Rome and Naples (operative headquarters), AZ InfoCollection is able to provide a high level of welcoming services in luxury and intensive visit flows outlets, with widespread national coverage and characterized by speed and flexibility in service provision.
The quality of local presence is guaranteed by a team of experts and professionals. AZ Group, in fact, can boast a real team of professionals prepared to satisfy the needs of its customers and to maintain a close relationship of respect and confidence with them.
Customers like Michael Kors, Prada, Ralph Lauren, Coin Group and OVS are some of the best business partners of AZ InfoCollection, with whom the company has worked for years by offering a punctual and precise service.
Characteristics of WELCOME SERVICE.
Who has not hear of it? The welcome service is the so-called “cordiality” services.
AZ InfoCollection offers this service at industrial plants, stores and outlets, not only contributing to the image of the store, but rather by offering services acting as a deterrent which is vital in preventing thefts.
To be more precise, AZ welcome service is divided into three different categories: the pure welcome , the proportion of which in the turnover in percentage terms is around 80%, the porter service, standing for all the activities of unarmed security and the proportion of which in the turnover is about 10% and finally the guarding service, which is similar to porter service and brings about 10% of revenues.
For further information do not hesitate to contact AZ InfoCollection:
Email: info@azinfocollection.it
Telephone: +39 02 76022442
Skype: azholdingspa
Whatsapp: +39 349 06 77 056
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