Jim Seward of the University of Wisconsin-Madison: "You’re not increasing your debt at all, so your credit quality actually looks better by factoring." Factoring can be an attractive alternative for ...

It’s been a well-known fact for some time now, that African American business owners have a more difficult time accessing capital, compared to their white counterparts. The Washington Bureau of the ...

Companies facing a cash-flow squeeze and slow-paying customers often sell their invoices or accounts receivable to specialized companies called factors. The factor advances most of the invoice amount ...