Factors: Concept, Concepts And Development Of Factoring In India

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Factoring: : Concept, Types, Functions of factor, Legal Aspects, Evaluation of factoring, Factoring services in India, Factoring vis-à-vis bill discounting, credit insurance, forfeiting. Reason for slow growth of Factoring in India. Bill financing: bill of exchange, definition, steps in bill discounting, bill market in India. Concept: Factoring is the fund based financial service which is rendered by specialized persons known as factors. Cash is the scarce resource for every business unit. Business house who sells goods on credit basis have to wait till long in order to receive the payments for the goods and services they have provided to the customer. In such trade cash gets locked in the form of receivables which needs time for realization. …show more content…

They are as follows. 1. Full factoring: It is the most comprehensive form of factoring. It is the combination of almost all the factoring services. Also known as old line factoring . it provides entire line of services like collection, credit protection , sales ledger administration and short term finance. 2. Recourse factoring : Under this type of factoring the factor has the right to demand the payment from the seller in case of default by the buyer. This means that the factor does not take the risk associated with receivables. The factor is entitled to recover the amount paid in advance from the client. In this case , the factor charges the customer for maintain the sales ledger and other debt collection services. He charges interest on the amount for the period drawn by the client . 3. Non – recourse factoring: In this case factor assumes the risk on the bad debts. In case of default he has no right to recover the amount from the supplier and can proceed against the customer. If in case the customer refuses to repay the amount than only the factor has right to proceed against the supplier. This kind of factoring arrangements are found in developed countries like U.S.A. and U.K, where reliable credit rating services are …show more content…

Many of the suppliers of goods services experience difficulty in collecting their book debts. Delay in collection leads towards liquidity problems, delayed production and supply affecting economic growth. The Vaghul committee report had observed that introduction of factoring services help in great extent to solve financial problems of the suppliers. The RBI formed a committee headed by C.S. Kalyansundram , a former managing director of the State Bank of India to examine the need for the factoring organization in India. The committee submitted its report in 1988 and recommended introduction of such services in India .RBI issued guidelines for factoring services in India in 1990. The SBI factors and commercial services Private limited was the first factoring company.it started its operations in Aril 1991.In 1992, Canbank Factors limited was allowed to operate in southern part of India. The first private sector factoring company – Foremost Factors limited commenced operations from 1997. Now they are permitted to operate over wide market. Factors inhibiting growth of factoring in India: Factoring industry has grown to the major extend all over the world. More than 1 lakh business houses are using factoring services over 7 million customers worldwide. The factoring volume is quite low in India. The factors inhibiting growth of factoring volumes

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