Archive for 'Invoice Finance'
How to put your business in reverse to go forward – reverse factoring
To receive funding from an invoice financier you have to sell them your invoices. In the past, this meant selling ALL of them! Today however, you can receive financing from the invoices of just one or two clients. Find out how!
The costs behind invoice finance – why it’s fair value for clients
There’s a perception that invoice financiers are the hyenas of the money world. Preying on the weak and looking for an easy kill. The truth of the matter is that while banks are getting fatter, dumber and happier, non traditional financiers are working harder than ever to keep their own and their clients heads above water.
How SMEs Can Bank On Floating Assets and Imagination
Australian Banks aren’t immune to further attacks from the GFC…
A read recently about Tony Abbott’s pitch for a small-business ombudsman. Basically a harmless piece of pre-election lobbying. A gentle, thirty second grab on the six o’clock news. Fluff!
According to estimates by the Bank for International Settlements, banks worldwide owe nearly $5 trillion to bond holders [...]
How To Accrue Profit With Purchase Order Finance
PO Funding, is it a Voodoo financing option? Lack of affordable capital. The curse of small business. It stifles start-ups. Established enterprises struggle to expand without it. Banks will go above and beyond for larger enterprises where alternate forms of funding are de rigueur. Like a restaurant changing its menu for a celebrity diner. But for SMEs…
How You Can Use Purchase Order Finance to Impress Your Friends
Don’t get left behind in business…new funding options are the key to growth. This may come as a surprise to many SMEs, but there are products available that can fill some of the capital finance gaps they face. Traditional instruments such as documentary credits and lines of credit are often only available to larger, established clients of banks…
How To Grow Your Business Without Strings Attached
Don’t get tempted to give up your equity just yet…
Since the GFC, banks have hit the reset button on lending to small business, especially to start-ups. So, unless you have assets, like real estate, you’re going to find it tough to get funding from a traditional lender.
More to the point, after you’ve exhausted traditional loan [...]
AR Cash Flow Launches Trade Finance Subsidiary
AR Trade Finance, a non-banking wholly-owned division of AR Cash Flow, has launched a new suite of products aimed at facilitating SME’s – specifically importers – to have access to finance. According to AR Cash Flow’s National Sales Manager, Daniel Dunsford, constrictions in bank loans to SMEs…
Worm turns for non bank financiers
The ‘worm may be turning’ for PM Kevin Rudd, but consumers and SME’s are still feeling the credit squeeze.
Glenn Donaldson of Cash Converters Australia, says his organization (which is the largest dealer of second hand goods in the world), has enjoyed substantial growth over the last couple years through a brand realignment exercise, but conceded [...]
Purchase Order Finance Can Be The Way To GO!
Whilst Australia’s economy is recovering (albeit slowly), most traditional lenders are still unwilling or unable to invest in new business start-ups, no matter how promising the concept.
Purchase Order (PO) finance can be the life line that provides capital even in an unpredictable economy, because funds are approved on the basis of solid orders you have [...]
Invoice Factoring And Discounting – The Australian History
Ok so we have covered the history of invoice factoring in our last blog post, so now it’s time to focus on how it all began in Australia. Factoring saw its beginnings in Australia in the early 1970s initiated by the non bank financial institutions and organizations…
Invoice Factoring And Invoice Discounting – A Brief History
Never heard of invoice factoring before? Thought it was something new? You will be surprised to know it’s almost as old as sliced bread! Get the history and learn if you might benefit from using it. The concept of invoice factoring revolves around buying a business’s unpaid invoices…
Effect Of Invoice Factoring On The Cash Flow Cycle
The plug again for Invoice Factoring. Let’s take a quick look at Invoice Factoring again, after all it is our main service offered to small businesses so we are allowed to plug it once and a while. The typical business cash flow cycle involves delivery of goods or services, along with the invoice to the customer…
Purchase Order Finance – How Can Your Business Benefit From It?
Purchase order finance is one of the best ways for a business to get almost instant access to funds. Every business faces a cash crunch at some time or other, particularly when suppliers are waiting to be paid, and there is no way you can get your own accounts receivables within the next thirty days. This latest article explains in details the process…
What Is Invoice Factoring All About?
The answer to your cash flow is locked up in your invoices!
Okay – it’s about time we got a good understanding of what invoice factoring is and how it works. One of the most appealing definitions of factoring is “a non-debt solution to cash flow needs”. It is literally money at your fingertips. Factoring [...]
I am Lost Trying To Choose The Right Factoring Provider
We often refer potential client on to other factoring companies or banks so we have put together a brief overview of how to communicate with a potential factoring provider. Have a read of this brief blog post and get an idea of what will be discussed when you start calling around…
