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Basel II – A Challenge to Factoring Companies

A specialist article by Dr. Ulrich Brink, Lawyer, Manager, Bette-Brink Rechtsanwälte  The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision continues to make…


Invoice Discounting – The International Opportunity

 Why is there an invoice finance opportunity?  The invoice finance world has typically focussed on factoring as the way forward.…


Coface unveils Country Risk Trends for the last quarter of…

Coface have released their analyses of Country Risk Trends for the last quarter of 2002. The report’s findings and forecasts…


Coface's sector trend report

After several months of price and inventory decline, a cyclical upturn in some economic sectors could provide the basis for…


Corporate Restructuring practitioner gives fraud prevention advice

This article was written by Andrew Stoneman, managing partner of Menzies Corporate Restructuring. It’s hardly surprising that the phenomenal growth…


Bucharest embraces 3rd East European Factoring Conference

The recent third European Factoring Conference was held in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Bucharest has a distinctive administrative status…


Invoice discounting: Growing use and sophistication

Louise Cowley looks at what this type of debt offers the buyout market.  The market for factoring and invoice discounting…


Sectoral outlook by the Coface Group

A deteriorating international geopolitical context, rising energy prices, and concern about terrorist attacks have delayed the expected recovery.  Sagging household…


Invoice discounting – the International Opportunity?

by Tim Nicolle, Chief Executive, JMH Demica  Why is there an invoice finance opportunity?  The invoice finance world has typically…


Problems with information on Chinese companies

SARS has dampened short-term enthusiasm for doing business in China, but the continuing rapid rise in the importance of China…


BANGLADESH – HOW FACTORING CAN HELP A DEVELOPING ECONOMY

The role of factoring services in bringing fast economic development is quite significant to an expanding economy. It is also…


UN study sees few signs of small business in Eastern…

By Mike Esterl, Dow Jones Newswires  When the Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 and helped send Soviet-style communism tumbling across…


Coface country rating update

Coface, the world leader in export credit insurance and company information, has released its latest country ratings.  Incipient improvement across…


Sectoral outlook September from Coface

Results for the last few months were not very bright with the SARS epidemic and the erratic dollar/euro-parity trend compounding…


US export controls on China unwise

The US decision to tighten controls on exports to China will not solve its trade deficit, but only aggravate its…


Latest Coface country risk trends

In contrast with increasing signs of recovery in the United States and the rebound developing in Japan, overall economic activity…


A vision of stability within the Basel accord

The writer is governor of the Bank of Spain and chairman of the Basel committee on banking supervision  Michelangelo is…


What China's rise means for the rest of Asia

By V Anantha Nageswaran, director, global economics and asset allocation, Credit Suisse, Singapore. This personal comment was first published in…


Small firms need more efficient European financial markets and more…

Europe's small businesses need more efficient pan-European financial markets, more equity investment, and a sharper public policy focus on early-stage…


New Coface Country @ratings

Country @ratings reflect the average capacity of companies in particular countries to make timely payments. They derive from a composite…


Commercial debt collection- The 'do or buy' decision in services

Article by François de Hennin – Mediaedge  The main danger for any service provider is to loose its uniqueness (i.e.…


Securitisation – new regulatory responses to capital arbitrage

The broad brush approach to credit risk in the 1988 Basel Accord encouraged banking innovations such as asset securitisation and…


Asset-based lending hots up

Recent asset-based lending activity in the US has further reinforced this finance tool as a popular mainstream option with recent…


Coface latest upgrades and downgrades to country risk ratings

The Coface Group, a world leader in export credit insurance and commercial risk management, today upgraded its ratings for Armenia,…


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