Thursday, July 26, 2018

Private Placement - Another Quality Source Of Capital For Your Business!

Private placement financing is another unique method for a business to obtain capital, and provide cash infusions at the same time to be used to increase sales, or to cover the cost of new equipment or software.

As with other sources of financing, private placement has to be done properly to ensure your business get the most benefit possible. Private placement is a perfect source of financing for companies which are growing.

Private placement is the investment of money from private investors who granted shares in the company. Through the purchasing of stocks or bonds a company will obtain the capital they need to continue expanding.

With a private placement the company selling their stocks and bonds most of the time does not have to register with the Securities Exchange Commission.

This reduces the amount of extra work involved, or needed. It is the most popular form of Regulation D non-public investing. Another benefit is that private placement is cheaper most of the time than actually taking a company public.

Other benefits of private placement include:

• Flexible financing needs for companies of all sizes including capital from 100 thousand up to the millions.

• Investors don’t look for quick profits and high returns on their investments. They are ok with a return of 10 to 20%.

• Capital can be raised much faster.

• The cost of obtaining the capital is quite a bit less.

An established company in the third stage of financing is the best candidate for private placement financing.

Monday, October 2, 2017

Bad Business Credit Financing and How to Secure It?

Bad credit financing is offered by various lenders but the interest rates and qualifications to consider are quite bad news to hear. Since the term bad credit would mean risk, the lenders try to secure their funding either with collateral or with high interest rates.

Most of them look on the business credit score first to determine the appropriate funding for your company. Also, instances like NSF checks, loan write-offs and settlements, historical bankruptcy, and recent late payments can cause you to seek bad business credit financing.

However, despite these financial mishaps, there are still available financing options offered to businesses with bad credit. Cleaning of repayment histories such as paying everything up to date and making prompt payments are simple ways of getting back on track and rebuilding the bad business credit.

For cash flow-based lenders, they expect to see near term credit responsibility in the business credit reports. Therefore, your business will less likely have an edge to qualify for these cash flow-based lending institutions.

On the other hand, there are asset-based lenders that can play a fair deal with your business as they consider sub-par credit including factoring companies and secondary debt lenders although they also look at the business credit score when evaluating approval for bad credit financing.

Both cash flow-based and asset-based lenders tend to be very stringent and expensive when it comes to bad credit financing, especially when you miss a payment. Particularly in asset-based lenders, they can easily seize the collateral used as security for the type of financing you obtained and liquidate it as soon as the law allows once you default on a payment.

Dwelling on bad credit only holds your business back from any cash flow-based business financing options, which leaves you to asset-based lenders. You are then required to present collateral to serve as security in the event you commit a default on your payments.

You cannot work on your bad business credit overnight. It takes a lot of processes and procedures to pull it up. The best thing to do as a restart is to start paying your debts on time and try to reduce debt as much as you can.