Forshaw Associates Limited - Cash Flow Finance

Our Invoice Finance Broking service (sometimes refered to asTrade Finance, Invoice Discounting, Invoice Factoring or Confidential Invoice Discounting (CID)) Means that we can help your business improve it's cash flow. By providing an immediate injection of cash against the value of your outstanding invoices which are usually a company's greatest asset. We have an impressive panel of Invoice Factoring or Discounting financiers across Lancashire, the North West and Nationally at our fingertips each with their own specific specialities.

For instance we could assist you with:

• Improving your business cash flow
• Customers who pay late
• Trading with foreign companies with more confidence
• Accessing funding to fulfil a specific order
• Out-sourcing credit managment

Downloads :

Guide to Business Finance in turbulent times

Invoice Factoring Application

The Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA) has released a glossary of basic terms and product descriptions to help to clarify the products available from the asset-based finance industry. This document has been put together to help members of the public understand the use of asset-based finance as a generic term to describe the industry as a whole, and the products that come under that banner of, factoring, invoice discounting and asset-based lending. To download your copy click the following link ABFA Glossary

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Small firms suffer as lending drops by £5bn

Getting bank loans is still a 'lottery' after lending to cash-strapped companies plunged by £5billion last month, small firms told MPs yesterday.

They said many banks are continuing to starve viable firms of the credit they desperately need to weather the recession.

It means scores of small businesses are going under every week despite Government initiatives designed to increase lending. 

Official data showed lending to businesses fell sharply during April, despite the taxpayer piling billions of pounds into Britain's banks.

Phil Orford, of business lobby group the Forum of Private Business, said: 'There's a bit of a bank lottery out there. Getting a loan depends on the risk appetite of a bank.'

He said following the Government bail-outs, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds were among the most understanding of the needs of small businesses. 

But he added that smaller lenders were much more reluctant to back Government initiatives, such as the £1.3billion Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme.

The Confederation of British Industry told the Business and Enterprise Committee the scheme's launch earlier this year was marred by 'poor communications', although there had since been improvements.