Best-in-class in cross-border factoring transaction

  • Undisclosed &
    syndicated facilities

  • Off-balance
    sheet solutions

  • Multi-country
    contracts

  • Centralized
    management

  • Easy & efficient
    implementation

About us

We finance working capital needs

Corporate international needs are constantly evolving, in relation to development and setting up operations abroad :

  • Buying or starting a foreign business from scratch,
  • Exporting to new countries
  • Signing commercial deals, company acquisitions, joint ventures
  • and more...

To support our clients’ international operations, our teams work in project mode so they can analyze and rapidly deliver unique account receivable financing solutions.

Our teams have developed specific expertise in managing multiple factoring transactions with investment or private equity funds in the context of LBOs and acquisition financing.

We can :

  • Structure transactions to enable off-balance sheet solutions
  • Work with banks and other lenders to improve debt level in the balance sheet

We are expert to encompass new countries around the world

We are one of the major Pan-European and International Receivables Finance providers with capabilities in Europe, North America and Australia.

A whole range of companies can take advantage of the benefits that factoring offers.

Companies of all types and sizes from small and medium sized companies to listed companies and multinationals increasingly use factoring solutions.

From France, we are able to support and implement financing solutions for companies established in more than 30 countries for their domestic activity, and also for their international activity :

  • With debtors in more than 200 countries
  • Through financing of trade receivables for foreign subsidiaries (European and non-European)

Our cross-border method and ability

We have developed the ability to provide tailor-made and flexible solutions in complex, multi-jurisdiction transactions and multi-bank (syndication) contexts :

  • Tailor-made
    factoring solutions

  • Non-disclosed
    for all sellers

  • Delegation of
    Credit Insurance

  • Possibility to have a
    commitment up to 3 years

  • Flexibility on change
    of control clause

Optional
Our experts in invoice dunning and collection management can optimize your accounts receivables in :

  • The native language of your debtors/clients
  • Respect with your commercial policy
  • More than 200 countries

Key benefits for our clients

Level of funding adjustable to working capital needs

  • A financing that follows the growth
  • A rapid and friction-less funding process : 24hrs transfer of funds to your account(s)

Unified contractual documentation applicable for all sellers

  • A single negotiation for the entire group
  • Appetite to meet our clients’ needs by expanding our scope of financing to new countries

Up-to-date advice as how best tackle international issues including :

  • Commercial and legal practices,
  • Regulations,
  • Payment methods,
  • Currency risk hedging.

Cash Management tool : to secure forecasts & cash flow projection

  • Ability to adapt our factoring process to your existing cash management procedures

Centralized management of the program

Multi lingual and dedicated cross-border staff based in Paris with :

  • A proven track record of managing transactions in line with local requirements

Additional source of funding
Refinancing of existing debts

  • Off balance structure achievable to optimize covenant ratios & working capital
  • A financing that dœs not increase the leverage

Our Start Services team

We dedicate to you our Start Services experts. They will support you throughout the technical and operational implementation phases of your contract.

  • Phase 1

    Understand your accounting practices

    Our teams exchange with your IT and accounting teams

  • Phase 2

    Validate the structure of your transfer files

    Your IT or service provider develops the files. Our teams test and validate their structures.

  • Phase 3

    Validate accounting & payment flows

    Your teams validate the accounting entries and customer payment data as part of 2 “test assignments”

  • FIRST ASSIGNMENT & FINANCING