Both ‘bill discounting’ and ‘invoice factoring’ are types of financial instruments that are used to provide working capital to businesses from accounts receivables (i.e., unpaid invoices).
With factoring and receivables finance volumes continuing to show modest growth around the world, TFG caught up with FCI’s Secretary General, Peter Mulroy, in an association update for the latest issue of Trade Finance Talks.
Debtor Finance is a simple, viable alternative to consider for relatively quick access to working capital funding.
Invoice finance is a type of asset backed finance, where the underlying asset is the accounts receivable. Accounts receivable essentially means ‘money owed’ and is usually through the form of… read more →
Silicon Valley-based Trucker Path released a crowd-sourced navigation app for truck drivers in late 2013. The crowd-sourced Trucker Path application has grown to become America’s largest community of truck drivers… read more →
With commercial finance becoming increasingly complicated, we teamed up with Simply Factoring Brokers to help simplify some of the terms that confuse business owners like you. We recently published a… read more →
Late invoice payments are costing businesses some £11.7bn a year according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Deemed as one of the most common problems faced by small business… read more →
What is the difference between invoice factoring and invoice discounting? Invoice factoring and invoice discounting are both types of asset backed finance aimed to help businesses release cash which are… read more →
How to use Invoice Financing for your Small Business Businesses often find that their customers don’t pay for their goods or services 30-90 days after the invoices are issued, sometimes… read more →
Invoice finance is a type of asset backed finance, where the underlying asset is the accounts receivable. Accounts receivable essentially means ‘money owed’ and is usually through the form of… read more →
What is export factoring? When a deal or trade happens between a buyer and a seller, the seller will ship the goods and raise an invoice for the buyer to… read more →
Why should I compare invoice factoring or invoice discounting providers? There are several bank and non-bank providers of invoice finance, from large instutions to small alternative funders, each offering different… read more →
We spoke to Andrew Howard at Platform Black to find out about more about invoice finance. What is invoice finance and how does it work? Invoice finance, including factoring and… read more →
The explosion in Recruitment Finance There has recently been a boom in the recruitment market and this can be put down to many reasons, such as corporation tax cuts, lower… read more →
It is estimated that the worldwide amount of factoring in 2013 was $3.08 trillion, which is an increase of more than 5 percent from 2013, according to a report from… read more →