Emagia

MARCH 15, 2024

Managing credit risk for B2B customers is critical for seamless order to cash (OTC) and working capital cycles. Businesses that follow traditional reactive strategies in OTC processes may find it difficult to collect at-risk future invoices, likely leading to large invoices going delinquent.

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Emagia

MARCH 15, 2024

Managing credit risk for B2B customers is critical for seamless order to cash (OTC) and working capital cycles. Businesses that follow traditional reactive strategies in OTC processes may find it difficult to collect at-risk future invoices, likely leading to large invoices going delinquent.

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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. Share Read more

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 27, 2024

Imagine a world where extending trade credit was completely risk-free, and granting open terms of sale to business customers required no second thought. In such an ideal scenario, every customer would have both the ability and the integrity to pay their bills in full and on time, eliminating any need for a credit management.

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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. Situations change, both for you and for your customer. Even more likely are changes to a customer’s business.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Researchers find construction loans with more on-site inspections are less likely to default, suggesting that loan monitoring adds value to lenders. More construction loan monitoring ultimately decreases loan default, according to a new FDIC Center for Financial Research working paper. On-site inspections. percentage points. “As

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 6, 2023

People who are new to business collections are inclined to fall into one of several patterns. Seldom does a new collector appreciate the need for a balanced, holistic approach to debt collections. In time, as they become more familiar with the process of collecting, their productivity increases.

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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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SAP Credit Management

JULY 19, 2023

SAP plans to provide substantial functionality to adhere even more to the privacy by design and default principle. Guiding assumptions and definitions for purpose-based processing First assumption Privacy by design and default is based on the purposes of the processing of personal data. This has been overtaken in the EU-GDPR.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Effective collections is the single most important factor for achieving reliable cash inflows. Effective collections can also reduce bad debt losses by compensating for a liberal or weak Credit Control function. The solution to the collections challenge therefore starts with Prioritization.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 25, 2024

Rising Days Sales Outstanding DSO measures the average number of days it takes to collect payment after a sale. A rising DSO indicates that your collections are not matching the rate of new sales, and if that goes on for any length of time, your cash flow will not be able to support the volume of your current business operations.

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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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To optimize the order-to-cash (O2C) process, it's crucial to understand the significant role Credit and Collections plays. Photo by Jay Heike on Unsplash ) What happens during the O2C process, however, apart from credit and collection activities, can have an outsized impact on cash flow and AR performance.

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Gaviti

JUNE 19, 2023

Effective communication is the most critical aspect of any A/R collections strategy. Even so, there are some basics you can apply across most templates you may use for collections. Include details such as accepted payment methods, terms, due dates, and contact information. Keep this end goal in mind when creating your templates.

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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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 16, 2023

When a commercial account wants to buy your product, chances are they will want credit terms. Business credit, also known as trade credit, facilitates the flow of goods and services between business trading partners. The purpose behind extending trade credit is to facilitate the sale of some other product or service.

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Lendio

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Some lenders are more tolerant of delinquency than others, but at a certain point, late and missed payments result in a default. Read to better understand how a default on a business loan typically plays out and how it could affect you. Default vs delinquency: Understanding the difference. So what happens if you default?

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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. Cash flow is the biggest cause of customers defaults, but often cash flow is a result of other financial problems or miscues.

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CreditStrong for Business

AUGUST 23, 2024

A good business credit report can be a valuable asset. Keep reading to learn more about how business credit reports work, who creates them, and the information included in these important but poorly understood reports. What Is a Business Credit Report? Good business credit can open the door to opportunities.

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CreditStrong for Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Conventional mortgage loans typically require higher credit scores than government-backed loans, but there are also many advantages to going with conventional mortgages. What is the Required Minimum Credit Score for a Conventional Loan? How Can Credit Scores Affect Mortgage Interest Rates? We’ll discuss these factors below.

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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. Watch NOW Takeaway 1 Abrigo's experts produced many pieces on lending and credit risk to provide strategies and tools to help banking professionals.

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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. When you sign up for a free Know-it account you’ll also get a free business credit report!

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TreviPay

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Trade credit insurance has become a vital tool for businesses looking to protect themselves from the risk of non-payment by customers. This type of insurance acts as a safety net, covering unpaid invoices when clients default or face financial difficulties. What Is Trade Credit Insurance? How Does Trade Credit Insurance Work?

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MNS Credit Management Group

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Many businesses that owe money to creditors use debt collectors, who work for a fee or a portion of the total amount collected. Some debt collectors are also debt purchasers; these businesses buy debt below its face value and then make an effort to collect the entire amount owed. Reasons To Hire A Collection Agency.

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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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CreditStrong for Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

Credit bureaus no longer can include eviction record entries in consumer credit reports following changes implemented by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency associated with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. However, any remaining rent owed is generally considered unpaid debt that a collection agency will pursue.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JULY 23, 2024

Once each customer’s payment proclivities are known, assigning appropriate monitoring and collection strategies is easily done, thereby ensuring adequate collection coverage. Irregular payments are a clear warning sign that default may be around the corner. Subscribe now Do you need help managing credit and collections?

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Credibly

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Table of Contents What happens if you default on a business loan? What happens if your business defaults on a loan? What’s the difference between default and delinquency? What you can do before your loan goes into default Does defaulting on a business loan affect my personal credit?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 9, 2024

In such a time of easy money, receivables management becomes less critical and credit policies tend toward laxity. Now that interest rates are higher, it is time for companies to reset their credit policies in order to adjust to the current interest rate environment. Where Are Interest Rates Headed?

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The Red Spectrum

MAY 18, 2023

When it comes to managing your finances and building a healthy credit history, understanding how credit card payments affect your credit reports is essential. What Are Credit Bureaus? Before diving into the details, let’s first understand what credit bureaus are.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 23, 2024

History, other people’s experinces, is informative as well. ” (Photo by Devon MacKay on Unsplash ) This applies to credit and collections as well as anything else. Credit analysts should also review past decisions to improve their future performance regarding approvals, limits and term setting.

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FICO Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Agile Collections Strategies Can Protect Loyalty in Tough Times. As economic victims swell the collections queue, do you have the tools you need to differentiate them and apply the correct treatments to different cohorts? Intuitive And Smart Collections Strategies to Offer Customer Safeguards. FICO Admin. by Bruce Curry.

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MNS Credit Management Group

MAY 25, 2023

The main purpose of debt collection in any country is to find an amicable and smooth settlement of dues between a debtor and a creditor. However, in Indonesia, there are no specific rules regarding debt collection service companies. Indonesia is no exception. The rules mainly exist in the Civil Code and other Indonesian regulations.

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CreditStrong for Business

JULY 11, 2024

Equifax’s three primary business credit scores are their Credit Risk Score, Payment Index Score, and Business Failure Score. A good Credit Risk Score or Payment Index Score generally indicates that your business is likely to make its payments on time. Credit Risk is the most similar of the three to a personal credit score.

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CreditStrong for Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

Solid revenues, profitability, good credit scores, and length of time in business are all driving forces behind what minimizes the credit risk for a lender. According to the Federal Reserve’s 2022 Small Business Credit Survey the businesses that are most likely to get financing are in the manufacturing industry.

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Gaviti

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Receivables collection is one of the most critical functions of any business, but it can also become one of the most stressful. Companies can reduce many overwhelming and monotonous aspects of collections via automation. Sage Intacct streamlines collections tasks but automation alone is not enough. Scroll down to Credits.

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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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