Businesses may wish to refinance assets for many reasons. It could be to help with the consideration of a Management Buy Out, it could be to raise a deposit for a new capital investment or it could be to help with working capital if cash is a bit tight. XL Business Finance has been helping businesses for over 10 years to refinance their existing plant and machinery.

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On the basis that most scaffolding companies are working to contract many such businesses wrongly assume that they are not eligible  for a factoring or invoice discounting company. The good news is that one or two invoice finance companies will provide a factoring service.

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Asset finance can play an important part of the overall consideration in a management buyout. Although it is often the last piece of the jigsaw it can make the difference between making a deal happen and not making a deal happen. Furtherm0re it is imperative that you get a decent asset finance broker to coordinate the best possible deal.

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Any search on the world wide web will reveal numerous factoring and invoice discounting companies. Some of them will be actual lenders, others will call themselves “independent” in that they are not bank owned but they are still a lender and some ae brokers. In our opinion using an invoice finance broker will save you the most time and help you obtain the most appropriate funder for your particular requirements.

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Most business understand invoice discounting and most businesses understand full factoring. However confidential factoring maybe available to businesses that require or would prefer a confidential facility.

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I suppose it is good news that we are continuing to receive business finance enquiries for new start businesses. The most recent one of which is for a £40,000 LCD exhibition screen. The discussion with the directors prompted me to remind oneself of the process required for funding a new business with very little trading history.

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We have been approached recently by a number of businesses requiring a commercial mortgage. The advantage of using XL Business Finance is that we have people working for us that have been in very senior commercial positions within banks and know exactly what the banks are looking for in terms of  information and types of deals. These businesses recognize that we can add value to the negotiations and dealing with one point of contact saves valuable time and resources. A Finance Director or Managing Director doesn’t need to waste time having interviews with several different finance companies when  they can pass over the responsibility to someone that knows exactly what the banks will do and what they are looking for in terms of property and clientele.

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Import Finance enables a business to theoretically import goods and sell them to an end user without having to use any of their own cash. Providing there is a reasonable margin within the deal and the goods have been presold then an import finance facility will dove tail nicely with a factoring or invoice discounting facility.

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We have come across a very interesting scenario in the last week or so whereby another broker had bee quoting a very very cheap rate on a hire purchase deal. Not wishing to criticise my fellow broking colleagues I suggested to the customer that maybe  not all is at it should be.

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There are a  number of ways that specialist trade finance companies can help your business. In many cases a complete funding solution is available which might not be available from the banks. A business that has a requirement to import goods maybe able to obtain funding providing that they have confirmed orders for their goods.

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