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UpTik invoice financing disbursements jump 275% in six months

Indian invoice-financing platform UpTik has reported a 275% increase in monthly disbursements over six months, providing a measure of the…


Austrade export deals reach A$8.8bn in 2025–26, up 26%

The Australian Trade and Investment Commission helped facilitate an estimated A$8.8bn (approximately US$6.13bn) in export deals during the 2025–26 financial…


WFY’26: Germany’s factoring market grows 6.2% to €423.5bn despite weak…

Germany’s factoring market expanded strongly in 2025 despite weak economic growth, elevated energy costs and rising corporate insolvencies, with total…


Trade finance shifts as EBRD backs new corridors and supply-chain…

Resilience redraws the trade finance map As trade corridors shift across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond, banks, multilaterals and…


US small-business bankruptcies rise 46% as Chapter 11 filings increase…

US small-business restructuring filings increased 46% during the first nine months of 2026, highlighting mounting financial pressure on smaller companies…


Iridium Credit raises US$3m for automated invoice verification and factoring…

Iridium Credit has raised US$3m to expand an invoice-verification platform designed to help factoring companies check entire receivables portfolios rather…


AIRA Factoring exceeds THB1bn in digital supply chain finance with…

Thailand's AIRA Factoring has surpassed THB1bn (approximately US$29.8m) in cumulative digital supply-chain financing transactions through a platform developed with NEC…


CG Debt Capital Markets arranges US$18m receivables and inventory-backed financing

A US industrial forging business has secured US$18m in senior secured credit facilities backed by receivables, inventory and equipment, providing…


KFH activates digital supplier-financing programme for Beyon in Bahrain

Kuwait Finance House Bahrain has activated a digital supply-chain finance programme for Beyon, giving the telecommunications group's local and international…


Trafigura wins US$11m trade-finance fraud appeal over forged coal contracts

Commodity trader Trafigura has defeated an appeal by Rasmala Trade Finance Fund in a dispute arising from more than US$22.6m…


Bank of England reports further fall in UK SME credit…

UK small and medium-sized businesses faced a further contraction in bank credit availability during the three months to August, according…


OTR Solutions acquires CCT transportation factoring portfolio

US freight-factoring provider OTR Solutions has acquired CCT Factoring's transportation portfolio, marking its second factoring-book acquisition in less than a…


Indian exporters seek 450-day trade credit after RBI raises rates…

Indian exporters have called for a substantial extension of pre-shipment and post-shipment credit periods after the Reserve Bank of India…


EUFactoring launches with eight national associations representing nearly 80% of…

EUFactoring Association has formally launched in Brussels as a new representative body for the European factoring and commercial finance industry,…


Republic uses US$2m factoring line to bridge 50-day payment gap…

Republic Business Credit has provided a US$2m recourse factoring facility to a US mobile fuel-delivery business facing a widening mismatch…


Blue Bird replaces US$250m facilities with US$600m credit package as…

US school-bus manufacturer Blue Bird has closed a US$600m senior secured financing package, replacing US$250m of existing facilities and extending…


SLR provides Markstein Sales US$10m ABL facility against receivables and…

SLR Business Credit has closed a US$10m senior secured asset-based facility for California beverage distributor Markstein Sales Company, using both…


BDO moves Swift and PESONet payments onto Finastra Global PAYplus

BDO Unibank has moved high-value and mass-payment processing onto Finastra's Global PAYplus platform as the Philippine lender seeks to handle…


Who pays when the customer fails? The hidden receivables risk…

A customer insolvency can turn booked revenue into a working-capital problem almost overnight. With secured lenders reporting rising non-accruals and…


WFY’26: Croatia’s factoring market jumps 25% to €1.9bn as reverse…

Croatia’s factoring market recorded its strongest growth in five years in 2025, with total turnover rising by around 25% to…


Teads reveals US$125m non-recourse receivables facility spanning US and Europe

Teads Holding has disclosed a four-year US$125m non-recourse accounts receivable financing facility built around receivables generated by operating subsidiaries in…


US ABL non-accrual rate hits highest level since 2011 as…

Non-accrual loans reported by US asset-based lenders have climbed to their highest level since 2011, according to analysis of Secured…


True Food Kitchen files Chapter 11 with US$42.1m debt and…

True Food Kitchen has entered Chapter 11 protection with approximately US$42.1m of funded debt, closing 12 restaurants and securing a…


AfDB provides Family Bank US$10m trade finance line for Kenyan…

The African Development Bank has provided Family Bank with a US$10m trade-finance line aimed at increasing foreign-currency funding for Kenyan…


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