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Why SMEs Have To Look Outside The Box For Funding

It’s time for business owners to venture outside the banks…Pre-election time in Australia. A sit and wait time for business. Both sides talking a big game. But what will come of it? Probably not much. Things will almost certainly settle-down a bit. There may be an increase in projects related to infrastructure, but the outlook, particularly for SMEs, is not rosy.

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 [...]

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…

How Does Purchase Order Finance (AKA Import Finance) Work? (training video)

Usually used for when you have a large order placed by your customer that you cannot afford to get manufactured. You’ve used up all the money tied up in your invoices for working capital. Now you require even more more cash to take on those orders. SOmetimes this kind of finance is known as Import [...]