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Diversify Your Business Finance

The Government has announced a new initiative to help diversify business finance; UK industry experts will lead from both the business and finance sectors. Do Enjoy Life. UK businesses still rely heavily on bank funding to help finance their business activities, even though many alternative sources of funding are available to them in today’s ever-changing financial marketplace. In light of recent and current banking reforms, the Government wants to ensure that the flow of finance to businesses is maintained. Alternative sources of finance will be crucial to help businesses deliver the wider economic growth the UK economy needs. The panel of experts will seek to establish a framework of alternative finance sources by working with businesses and business investors, financial institutions, and alternative finance providers to coordinate and facilitate the availability of funding that businesses need.

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Bank lending

Even though there has been a recorded increase in new lending from the largest banks this year, many businesses are still unhappy with bank lending levels and how their banks have treated them. Tighter lending criteria, non-renewal of overdraft facilities, and poor communication by the banks are the common problems cited by businesses as making their funding objectives difficult to achieve. Without the finance they need, UK businesses struggle to survive and grow, so the UK economy does the same. This is why the Government is not only introducing schemes to increase bank lending but is also keen to encourage as much competition in the financial market as possible and provide a wide range of alternative sources of finance to UK businesses.

Alternative finance

There is already a wide range of alternative finance sources available to businesses. One of the biggest barriers to increasing the take up of these sources of finance is general awareness. New and emerging providers of alternative financial products do not have the branch infrastructure that makes the efficient and effective distribution of their products. The other important factor here is that many owners and managers of small and medium-sized businesses, which are the backbone of the UK economy, are unaware of the range of alternative finance available and where to find it.

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New methods of communication are required, and it is hoped this will be a key objective of the Government’s initiative.

Invoice Finance

Invoice finance is one of the most popular options in the alternative finance portfolio. Over the last fifteen years, it has grown from about 13,000 companies using it in the UK to over 50,000 companies now. This extremely flexible method of business finance advances funds against unpaid sales invoices. There are variations within the invoice finance family of products which includes invoice factoring and invoice discounting. The invoice finance lenders will advance up to 95% against a company’s unpaid sales invoices and use the sales ledger as security by taking assignation of the invoice and so they effectively own the outstanding debt.

When the company’s customer pays the invoice, the invoice finance company will pay over the balance of the invoice that has not been funded after deducting their fees. There is usually a charge for the facility and an interest charge for the amount of funding advanced. One of the main benefits of invoice finance is that the facility will grow as the business grows, making it a very effective funding method. The Invoice Finance Company are specialists in invoice finance. To find out more about invoice factoring or invoice discounting, call us on 0845 459 7504 and speak to one of our specialist advisors. If you found this article useful, visit our website at www.invoice-finance-uk.co.uk and give us a ‘like.’

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