Factoring and Stock Financing in Trade Finance

Factoring is a nonbank financial institution which meets the financing needs of the enterprises and minimizes the non-payment risk and stock financing which is based on the bank loans are two alternative financing techniques that enables collateral and collection and financing to SME’s, suppliers and commercial enterprises. These two methods are important in terms of the advantages they provide to vendors and suppliers. Reducing the non-payment risk, securing liquidity to business, minimizing the risk level of sales by making them safer and increasing competition power on the market are among the advantages. Stock financing is another method which is much more recent than factoring became a current issue in 2000’s and developed to minimize non-payment risk and provide cash flow on the basis of bank loan. In Turkey, this method is only applicable to automotive industry for now. This method emerges as an advantageous method for businesses experiencing difficulties in financing, inability to collect their receivables, and the inability to deplete their inventories. With the stock financing method, car dealers have affordable and easy credit facilities in order to make payments to the main supplier in exchange for their existing inventories. The aim of this study is to compare factoring and stock financing method and revealing the advantageous and disadvantageous points of two alternative methods.

Preferred Stock Financing: A Survey Of Trends In The 1980s

Following major structural changes in the preferred stock market, a survey was undertaken to determine whether reasons for issuing preferred stock had changed and for what purposes it is now issued. Differences in uses between traditional and new preferred stock are documented. No support is found for the common generalization that convertible preferred stock is issued primarily for merger and acquisition activities. Reasons for issuing preferred stock vary by industry and whether the firm is expanding or restructuring.

Warrant Financing

This article develops a criterion for comparing warrant financing with further common stock financing from the viewpoint of a firm's current stockholders. This criterion is then related to a complementary one presented by Bierman [1] and a condition is imposed on Bierman's cost of warrant financing for warrant financing to be preferred to further stock financing. Finally the article considers the limitations of these criteria and qualitatively discusses risk considerations that influence the attractiveness of warrant financing.