The Concept called Factoring
Monday, February 8, 2010 17:24The concept of Factoring financing was invented long time before the banks were started. It was invented in the Roman Empire. This made the merchants happy because this would pay for their merchandise even before the merchandise was received from the Factoring Companies. This cash was used to pay out to the suppliers, employees and taxing authorities. The agreements were basically based on long term relationship and trust. After the Roman Empire the concept of accounts receivable was evolved in the America two hundred years ago. This was basically evolved for the textile industry to accelerate the cash flow.
Factoring is an enabling tool to increasing the capacity, flexibility, fluidity, efficiency and in turn more sales by the Factoring Company. This concept was considered to be on the outer edge of respectable financing for products other than textiles thirty years ago. Finance considered this concept fundamentally to be a high risk business. This is because accounts receivable financing was evolving into the billion dollar industry. Just like the Roman Empire, Americans also has their agreement that was based on long term relationship and trust. This long term relationship was important because when this concept was utilized one has to entrust the commercial finance company with the lifeblood of the business that is the cash flow.

