It has been well known for a while that Davenham were in serious trouble and they have been pretending to lend recently rather than actually doing so.
The staff were told to expect a decision on the company’s future by the end of June and that future now seems to be that they are formally ceasing to write new business whilst the company enters “collect out” mode.
Whilst it is possible for them to collect out their loan book in a prudent and orderly manner as claimed by the company, one cannot do that with factoring so I hope that arrangements are in hand to transfer the book to another factoring company causing as little pain as possible in the process.
This is the third factoring company in a very short space of time to crash into the rocks following hard on the heels of Aston Rothbury a few days ago and Challenge a few months ago so let’s hope that this is the end of it now as it doesn’t do the industry any good at all.
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This post was written by Ian on July 2, 2010
Just a couple of hours after blogging that nothing much was happening in the world of factoring I was informed that Aston Rothbury had gone bust just three months after Business Money had said how refreshing it was to see what a change of management had done for the company.
Hopefully the cash flow of the clients will be unaffected as according to representatives of the Administrator, Aston Rothbury will continue to trade and has the continued support of Lloyds TSB.
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This post was written by Ian on June 29, 2010
I always viewed Platinum Funding as one of the factoring bottom feeders who took on cases that everyone else had turned down and then charged them a huge amount in fees for the priviledge so when I was told last week that they had gone into Administration I was partly relieved.
I have just been told that the book of existing clients has been bought by Aston Rothbury and to say that I am dumbfounded would be a great understatement.
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This post was written by Ian on March 29, 2010
Brian Nalborough the ex owner of Aston Rothbury Factors who laundered millions of pounds of tainted and stolen money has been jailed four years for his role as a banker to the criminal underworld.
It would seem that Nalborough is no stranger to prison having previously spent time in an Italian jail on charges of illegally supplying arms to Bosnia.
It would seem to be more than likely in the circumstances that some of that money ended up funding Aston Rothbury clients.
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This post was written by Ian on January 15, 2010
