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Monday
Oct192009

FICO Score - What is Considered a Good FICO Score?

What does your FICO score mean? FICO stands for Fair Isaac Corporation and is an evaluation of the risk that you will go late on a credit obligation. The scoring system is based on extensive research of payment habits and patterns. As with any system that evaluates potential risk, it is not 100 percent accurate nor is it 100 percent fair. However it is correct more often than not.

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Monday
Sep282009

Factoring Receivables- The Real Cost

In January 2008 Inc. Magazine, "Short on Cash?" in the Finance: Cash Flow column, the point was made that a factoring discount was an equivalent annual interest rate of 12 times the factoring discount rate. This hypothetical 12 times interest rate is then compared to a bank loan at a competitive annual rate. For the article this meant that a monthly factoring discount of 2% is equivalent to a 24% annual interest rate. This is really a misleading comparison of apples and oranges. In reality a 2% factoring discount rate is equivalent to a 2% annual interest rate, but to understand it we need to go into some detail.

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Monday
Sep072009

The World Bank Study on Factoring

Around the world, factoring is a growing source of external financing for corporations and small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). What is unique about factoring is that the credit provided by a lender is explicitly linked to the value of a supplier’s accounts receivable and not the supplier’s overall creditworthiness. Therefore, factoring allows high-risk suppliers to transfer their credit risk to their high-quality buyers. Factoring may be particularly useful in countries with weak judicial enforcement and imperfect records of upholding seniority claims, because receivables are sold, rather than collateralized, and factored receivables are not part of the estate of a bankrupt SME. Empirical tests find that factoring is larger in countries with greater economic development and growth and developed credit information bureaus. In addition, we find that creditor rights are not related to factoring. This paper also discusses “reverse factoring”, which is a technology that can mitigate the problem of borrowers’ informational opacity in business environments with weak information infrastructures if only receivables from highquality buyers are factored. We illustrate the case of the Nafin reverse factoring program in Mexico and highlight how the use of electronic channels and a supportive legal and regulatory environment can cut costs and provide greater SME services in emerging markets.

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