Receivables are one of the largest and most essential components of global commerce. Across industries—healthcare, FMCG, logistics, manufacturing, and real estate—businesses routinely extend credit terms of 30 to 120 days. This creates a continuously expanding pool of short-duration credit assets, estimated at:
These receivables are backed by real economic activity and often exhibit low historical default rates (0.3–2.5%). Yet, despite their scale and safety, access to receivable-based yields is severely restricted, and liquidity remains deeply inefficient.
Factoring companies and specialized lenders purchase or advance funds against receivables to generate predictable, high-yield credit exposure. The global factoring market has reached $3.4 trillion in yearly turnover, driven by recurrent financing needs across SMEs, healthcare providers, real estate developers, distributors, and exporters.
However, the industry operates with structural inefficiencies and constraints:
Underwriters often rely on expensive credit facilities, paying up to 16% APR simply to access capital, which significantly erodes their margins.
Even when funds are not deployed, lenders continue to charge interest. Underwriters pay for unused capital, creating negative carry and discouraging conservative deployment.
Banks frequently impose large minimum credit line commitments that exceed actual demand, forcing underwriters to hold unnecessary, expensive idle cash.