Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

(Photo by Dan Dimmock on Unsplash ) Ultimately, these tools enable enterprises offering trade credit to streamline collections and improve cash flow. Real-time insights into credit risk and payment behaviors are turning AR into a strategic function that enhances efficiency, quality, and growth.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

After a third party runs a credit check and assumes the credit risk of non-payment, a purchaser can delay payment for a fixed period or pay in whole or installments. Using B2B BNPL, MSMEs avoid tapping their credit lines to pay invoices and avoid trade credit negotiations.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

But as industry experts know, small businesses everywhere are being forced to deal with longer payment terms on their invoices and with corporate customers paying those bills off later. One thousand businesses responded to the Coface survey, which aimed to look at corporate credit risk mitigation, according to reports.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 8, 2025

Lacking the resources of a larger enterprise, SMBs can experience out-sized consequences from late invoices, missed payments, tax errors, and even fraud. Here are some of the most common issues that finance teams encounter: Inaccurate or outdated contact information: Invoices go unpaid when they’re sent to the wrong place.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In one study, through its Payments Practices Barometer, Atradius found that, across respondents from Western Europe , there has been a boost in past due invoices after only a slight increase seen from 2016 to 2017. The proportion of past due invoices now stands at 41.8 percent after having boosted from 39 percent in 2016 to 40.7

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

While there is an anticipation of global trade expanding by slightly over 2% in 2024, the pace of growth in Asia is forecasted to remain subdued and may not be as robust as it was in previous years, Atradius said. Bad debts also declined slightly, standing at 5% of all B2B invoiced sales, Atradius pointed out.

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Future CFO

MARCH 20, 2023

Allianz Trade forecasts that global WCR to remain broadly stable. In this period of uncertainty, the greatest financial relief one can give small and mid-sized businesses is faster payment of their outstanding invoices, and improved credit-management practices. In 2023, more of the same.

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