With the emergence of a number of selective invoice finance facilities over recent years we wanted to find out what the market demand was for these types of facilities. Therefore we asked 100 randomly selected SMEs (very few were invoice finance users) the following question: “Would you expect businesses using invoice finance to prefer to [...]
Finally we have the results through from our 5th survey group! There was some unsolicited suggestion in one of our previous surveys that the UK government should promote invoice finance and that not all businesses are aware of the benefits of invoice finance. Therefore we specifically asked a sample of 100 randomly selected SMEs (Small [...]
Commercial Finance Today have published my latest article “Has A Lack Of Bank Lending Created An Opportunity For Invoice Finance?” and you can read a copy by following this link: Has A Lack Of Bank Lending Created An Opportunity For Invoice Finance?
Below is a link to my recent article published in Commercial Finance Today: Invoice Finance research conclusions so far | Commercial Finance Today. It summarises the 9 key conclusions arising from our invoice finance related research activity.
I thought it might be useful to provide links in one place to the two Invoice Finance Market Research Papers that we have published so far: Invoice Finance Market Research Findings Summary Part 1 Invoice Finance Market Research Findings Summary Part 2
Please feel free to download a copy of our latest invoice finance related research summary paper. This is the second in a series of summaries and it follows on from the previous one that we published: Invoice Finance Research Summary Part 2 It summarises the results of our research findings over the last few months regarding [...]
The membership of the UK Invoice Finance Group on Linkedin.com has broken through the 200+ barrier. Not bad when you consider that is equivalent to the entire staff of a mid-sized factoring company, and there are probably no more than a maximum of c. 90 factoring companies in the UK in total. To join our [...]
I have been continuing to dissect the results of our survey question to SMEs when we asked what they thought the invoice finance industry should do to better promote itself as a cash flow solution. The top answer (27% of respondents) as previously reported was that “Banks advertising” the products was the most popular methodology [...]
Much of our research has shown that invoice finance is not well known within business circles. Some 41% of businesses thought that lack of knowledge/promotion was the key reason for invoice finance not being taken up by more businesses. Our attention turned to what should be done about that. Therefore, we questioned 100 SMEs and [...]
Invoice finance, such as factoring & invoice discounting, should be the natural choice for businesses that are anticipating problems raising business finance for their businesses. However, our research suggests that many businesses still anticipate problems raising business finance despite invoice finance being freely available. Of the 59% of businesses that said they were anticipating problems raising [...]
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