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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,…


The fight against fraud – what every company director MUST…

Fear of fraud should force every board director to take responsibility for their companies’ defences and ensure they have strong…


ILO launches pivotal programme to support SMEs

A new, high- profile, integrated business growth programme, called Expand Your Business (EYB), will be launched on... (more…)


The future is cross selling

A special article by Ann Horan, Managing Director, Bank of Ireland Commercial Finance and Chairman of the Factors & Discounters…


Coface world country risk index improves

Coface announced that its world country risk index continued to improve during the past three months (down 4% and at…


Reliance on exports is Asia's Achilles heel

Export growth is slowing across Asia in another sign that high oil prices are affecting the global economy. As recently…


EXIM bank forced to change strategy to drive SME expansion…

Competition from local banks offering trade finance at lower rates has meant that the Export-Import Bank... (more…)


ICICI bank’s partnership to advance micro-finance receivables market

In a move that will support the advancement of micro-sized businesses, ICCI Bank, the country's largest private... (more…)


European courts are thick with problem of thin capitalisation

Thin capitalisation is not a term with which many of those involved in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will be…


Know your export market

An article by Robert Hannah, corporate finance partner with Grant Thornton Exports, along with many other areas of the Scottish economy…


UK company profitability has now fallen for a record 16th…

The profitability of UK companies has fallen to below six per cent for the first time, according to Experian® in…


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