In one of our previous surveys of 100 SMEs we found that 88% of respondents said that they used overdraft. This is significantly higher than the fraction of 1% that use invoice finance. This led us to investigate why customers seemed to opt for overdraft over invoice finance and if there was anything that could be done to switch customers to invoice finance from overdraft.

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Recently a number of invoice finance providers offering selective facilities, where the client can select specific invoices to finance rather than receive finance on all invoices, have entered the market and a few invoice finance auction sites have been launched.

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Glenn Blackman of Cashflow Acceleration Limited comments:  ”To answer this question I first turned to the Asset Based Finance Association’s statistics to June 2011 and saw that they reported a 0% change in client numbers over the previous year. This suggests that even if an opportunity had been created it has not resulted in significant growth in invoice finance client numbers. Continue Reading

Glenn Blackman of Cashflow Acceleration Limited has now published two research summaries detailing the results of all the invoice finance related market research that he conducted over the last year. Continue Reading

Glenn Blackman of Cashflow Acceleration’s recent survey of 100 SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) indicated that 27% of SMEs believe invoice finance could be more well known amongst businesses, were it advertised by banks.  Continue Reading

Glenn Blackman of Cashflow Acceleration’s recent survey of 100 SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) indicated that 59% of SMEs anticipate problems raising business finance during 2011. Continue Reading

Glenn Blackman of Cashflow Acceleration Limited has reported that pure invoice finance funding, by Asset Based Financing Association members, exceeded £12.6 billion at the end of last year. Therefore, invoice finance is clearly fulfilling the funding needs of a large number of UK businesses. Continue Reading

Cashflow Acceleration Limited have reported that recent invoice finance industry figures have shown positive signs of growth in terms of the volume of business transacted by clients, although the growth in actual client numbers has been minimal. Continue Reading

From the previous research that Cashflow Acceleration Limited have conducted, they have seen that the cost of invoice finance generally is the biggest barrier to expansion of the invoice finance market. Continue Reading

Glenn Blackman of Cashflow Acceleration Limited comments on the results of a recent survey looking into what SMEs expect to pay for invoice finance. Continue Reading