Checking Google to see how the factoring brokers and companies are ranking is something that I guess most of us do regularly. Getting a high position whether organically or on the paid for ad section is only half of the … Continue reading
Chatting to a another friend from a different independent factoring company yesterday and he told me about the prospective client who had agreed terms etc but a closer look showed him to have the sort of financial problems that would be … Continue reading
Chatting to a friend in the independent factoring sector he told me that he had been approached by a client of a major high street bank owned factoring company as they had suffered a reasonably significant bad debt which was … Continue reading
is awarded to Ashley Commercial Finance who posted the following on their blog yesterday:- “we are the SECOND BEST INVOICE FINANCE COMPANY IN THE UK.” So, anyone satisfied with second best should contact Ashley but everyone else should contact me
I guess that it’s been pretty much the sort of year that we all expected, with the factoring industry as a whole pedalling hard just to stand still. According to the ABFA statistics the total number of companies using factoring … Continue reading
According to a press release from Close Invoice Finance a recent survey that they have conducted reported that a number of companies in the West Midlands admitted to being ill-prepared for the disruption that a bad winter will bring. The … Continue reading
As usual there are a great deal of statistics that actually say very little as the 251 clients with annual turnovers in excess of £100m per annum obscure the wood quite well. The overall number of companies using either factoring … Continue reading
It was only a few months ago that I was at the Metropole Hotel near Birmingham for the Business Money dinner and last night I was back again, this time for the NACFB annual awards dinner. There were a few … Continue reading
Well it is according to a press release sent out to all and sundry by Simply Business. Apparently they are seeing “an increase in small businesses seeking alternative sources of credit such as invoice discounting and factoring as banks refuse … Continue reading
Another quarter has passed and right on cue the ABFA have released the latest statistics supplied by their factoring company members along with their usual misleading press release. The ABFA claim that “UK and Irish firms are increasingly opting for … Continue reading