Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Monitoring and evaluating the credit risk posed by public companies and other large firms differs significantly in comparison to small and mid-sized businesses. Because most of your biggest customers will be larger firms instead of smaller, it is typically the larger firms that will require higher credit limits.

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Know-It Global

APRIL 26, 2023

As a business owner, it’s essential to understand and manage credit risk to maintain a healthy cash flow and avoid financial losses. Credit risk is the potential for a borrower to fail to repay a loan or credit extended to them. Did you know? What are you waiting for, get started now.

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Credit Management Group UK

MARCH 4, 2024

Some may find the thought of managing financial risk daunting, but it should be straight forward. The decision making process for granting a potential customer credit should be made up of a jigsaw of several different types of information, rather than relying on one method only.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

APRIL 25, 2025

Trade credit is a major source of capital for businesses buying from other firms in the United States. This has increased reliance, by both the seller and the buyer, on trade credit terms for the working capital needed to operate their businesses successfully. Changing Perceptions Savvy credit executives can change that perception.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Abrigo's most popular whitepapers and checklists on lending and credit risk Abrigo experts' insights on CFPB 1071, loan policies, and risk ratings were popular with banking professionals. You might also like this webinar, "Unraveling risk rating: Making sense of your best early warning tool." Here are the top resources.

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Gaviti

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The sooner your business collects on its invoices, the lower your financial risks and the better your financial position. One of the fastest ways to do this is via collections process automation to streamline the A/R process, eliminate manual tasks, and ensure timely follow-up with customers.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The most-read lending & credit blogs in 2023 Probability of default, CECL model validation, and stress testing were among Abrigo's top blogs on ALM, CECL, and portfolio risk this year. download NOW Takeaway 1 The most popular blog posts on the Abrigo site reflect many of the priorities community banks and credit unions had in 2023.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 23, 2023

Incidentally, the higher your gross margin, the more latitude you have in extending credit to marginally risky accounts. Any subsequent collection expenses and bad debt write-offs are more easily recouped through additional sales than if your gross margins are low. Do you need help with your credit policies and procedures?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When we first think about credit risk, our minds focus on the financial status of the company in question. To manage the risk that a customer might default, companies implement credit and collection policies and procedures. Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication. Share Read more

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 2, 2024

Commercial credit scores predict the likelihood of a business fulfilling its financial obligations, particularly regarding debt repayment and trade credit. Commercial credit scores are often not as well understood as consumer credit scores such as FICO. Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash First, a little background.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit Policy is an inextricable part of a company’s Sales Policy. If you choose to sell on open credit, the terms you offer are in effect part of the price. If you discuss credit terms with a competitor, you are in violation of anti-trust statutes forbidding price fixing. What’s Right for Your Firm?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 30, 2024

The evolution of Accounts Receivables (AR) automation has revolutionized our collection strategies. Manual collection processes centered on an aged accounts receivable trial balance (ARTB) lack the regimentation and efficiency brought about by automation. For a more in depth discussion of systematic collections, click here.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 8, 2021

Independent Loan Review Systems in Banking Banking regulators have outlined expectations for effective, independent loan review and credit risk review. . Takeaway 1 A system for ongoing, independent credit risk review will not look the same from institution to institution. 2020 Interagency Guidance.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For a small business owner or executive, navigating credit decisions can be challenging, especially when they clash with the goals of other stakeholders within the company. Due to a lack of risk awareness and misaligned priorities these actions often perpetuate internal friction, which can sometimes overflow into the customer experience.

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TreviPay

APRIL 8, 2025

Sales teams manually entered orders, finance teams conducted credit checks over weeks, invoices were issued through fragmented systems and collections often required human intervention. AI-powered credit decisioning now enables near-instant credit approvals. Data Availability: Credit reporting standards vary widely.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In our case, we found our readers had an affinity for articles on identifying collection risks and the best ways of dealing with past due balances. Hopefully, these insights will help you with your collection efforts Not a subscriber … why don’t you take advantage of a YVCM subscription?

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Gaviti

MAY 9, 2023

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest addition to the Gaviti accounts receivable collections platform: the Credit Management Module! At Gaviti, we understand how crucial it is for you to maintain a healthy cash flow, minimize credit risk, and ensure timely payments from your customers.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 2, 2024

Contacting customers to pay past due amounts (collecting) is an essential element of accounts receivable (AR) management. For most firms, late customer payments are a frequent occurrence and collecting them can be a difficult task. Collections also has to be done effectively with minimal alienation of customers.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For example, there are firms burning through their cash reserves that may still be considered worthy of credit on their next order, but not the order that comes in three months from now. A customer can be paying you with no problems, but then their bank line of credit comes up for review and is drastically cut back by the bank.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2024

How financial institutions deal with problem loans Problem loans are a natural outcome of the risks banks and credit unions take when lending, and they should be expected over the long run during the ups and downs of the business cycle. They would then be able to take steps to mitigate or avoid the losses as much as possible.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Banks & credit unions use technology to solve challenges AI today is the result of decades of research and development. Financial institutions have embraced advances in data-driven decision-making , using them to improve credit assessment, fraud prevention, and financial inclusion. This Transformer architecture really took off.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 23, 2024

Approving a customer for credit terms is merely the first step in an open credit relationship. Economic circumstances may cause you to tighten your credit policies and customer credit limits. The remainder of the review will mirror an initial credit evaluation (here’s more information on Evaluating Credit ).

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 8, 2025

In today’s risk-heavy business climate, Controllers are expected to do more than close the books. They must ensure data accuracy across the systems that drive billing, collections, compliance, and reporting. Collections slow down. This leads to credit limit blind spots, reporting inconsistencies, and operational confusion.

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Emagia

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The common business risks include credit risk which mainly refers to the risk of the borrowers failing to repay credit or loan that has been extended to them, customers failing to pay the invoices raised against the supply of goods or services, or vendors failing to supply goods or services after having been paid in time.

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Know-It Global

JUNE 20, 2023

Credit control is a vital aspect of financial management for businesses. It involves managing credit sales and making informed credit decisions, ensuring timely payment from customers, and minimising bad debt. Setting Up Credit Control Processes 1.1 This is where business credit checking comes into play.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Data for banks & credit unions Real-time pricing trends for loans Now that the Fed has lowerered interest rates , financial institutions will want to carefully monitor current loan interest rate trends in their markets to remain competitive as rates drop. Make informed decisions faster.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JULY 18, 2023

Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash Commerce between companies is facilitated by a trade credit relationship. When a supplier or vendor grants open credit terms to their business customers, both parties benefit. It’s important to keep in mind Pareto’s theorem when you are approving credit.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Understanding the role of E-Tran in SBA lending is the first step for banks and credit unions to ensure smooth loan processing. Credit unions only make 2.4%. But both banks and credit unions have substantially increased their lending activity through 7(a) since 2020. SBA-backed loans What is E-Tran?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 6, 2024

Extending credit is standard practice if you are selling to other businesses. Most commercial enterprises are simply not willing to continue trading without credit terms, making it difficult for any trade credit grantor to generate enough revenue to survive on cash sales. In reality, granting credit is much more complicated.

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SAP Credit Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As the heart of business processes and information, having the right ERP software is essential to collecting, measuring, and sharing sustainability data and KPIs. Banks are increasingly committed to net-zero lending practices and, as a result, they are factoring sustainability into credit risk assessments for all their lending.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 18, 2024

That’s why it is standard to ask on a credit applications the year in which the business was formed. Years in business is a critical factor in the assessment of credit risk along with number of employees, which can be a good proxy for sales volume, something private businesses are not always willing to disclose.

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Emagia

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Manufacturing Manufacturers often juggle extensive customer bases, complex credit risks, and high invoicing volumes. Emagia provides tools to: Automate credit management and collections. Improves collections efficiency. Emagia’s platform: Automates collections and payment tracking.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Making the most of data developed for CECL See how banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions can leverage data developed and used for the CECL model for stress testing and strategic insight. But they also offer insights to credit teams who are generally not even involved in CECL calculations.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You might also like this checklist for preparing for the CFPB 1071 rule DOWNLOAD Takeaway 1 Bank and credit union executives are worried about complying with the CFPB's upcoming final rule on small business loan application data. Visit CFPB 1071 resources for lenders for more on data collection requirements for small business lending.

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Credit Management Group UK

JUNE 16, 2024

Throughout my years in commercial credit management, I have identified several mistakes that companies make within their order to cash process; mistakes that are often very small and easily fixed; make enough of them, however, and you could find your cash flow isn’t flowing the way you would like it to.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This misguided search for a singular understanding applies to many things, including collecting Accounts Receivable (AR). Optimal Collection results are achieved by utilizing different collection techniques with different types of customers. How do you determine which customer types merit which collection protocols?

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Lockstep

JUNE 15, 2022

For B2B businesses, credit management is essential for accounts receivable (AR) management success. Proper, healthy credit management allows for steady cash flow, better collections management and a manageable days sales outstanding (DSO). . The credit plan will help your organization reduce bad debt and write-offs.

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