Export factoring is the process where a lender or a factor buys a company's receivables at a discount. It includes services like keeping track of accounts receivable from other countries, collecting and financing export working capital, and providing credit insurance.
Factoring is like taking a number apart. It means to express a number as the product of its factors. Factors are either composite numbers or prime numbers (except that 0 and 1 are neither prime nor composite).
Factoring primarily involves the sale of receivables related to ordinary goods and services. Conversely, forfaiting is specifically concerned with the sale of receivables on capital goods.
Purpose: Factoring is typically used to obtain short-term financing, while forfaiting is used to manage long-term trade receivables. Types of assets: Factoring involves the sale of accounts receivable, while forfaiting involves the sale of trade receivables, such as promissory notes and bills of exchange.
A factoring relationship involves three parties: (i) a buyer, who is a person or a commercial enterprise to whom the services are supplied on credit, (ii) a seller, who is a commercial enterprise which supplies the services on credit and avails the factoring arrangements, and (iii) a factor, which is a financial ...
The factoring agreement will also include representations that each factored account is bona fide and represents indebtedness incurred by the customer for goods actually sold and delivered to the customer; that there are no setoffs, offsets, or counterclaims against the account; that the account does not represent a ...