Today’s 1% cut in base rate to 2% will probably have negligible effect on SME factoring and invoice discounting clients as firstly many of the providers have already moved over to LIBOR as a charging rate and secondly many of those who have remained on base rate will have minimum base rates included in their agreements and these could well be 4% or 5% so any factoring client on 3% over base could still be paying 8% pa
Time to dust off those factoring agreements and check the wording