Credit Insurance for European SMEs: A Guide to Assessing the Need to Manage Liquidity Risk

Topics:
Commercial Lending,
Insurance
Tags:
Credit Insurance,
Finance,
Investment,
Liquidity,
Small And Medium Enterprise,
Smb/Sme
Source:
European Union

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Overview: Today, bank lending is the most important source of SME finance in Europe. Changes in the banking sector and the economic downturn have made banks more reluctant to lend to risky SMEs. Therefore SMEs must consider alternative ways for funding their business and for managing the liquidity to run their enterprises. The purpose of this paper is to provide SMEs with information on one specific and often overlooked financial aspect - the risk of liquidity constraints caused by customer failure.

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Format: PDF | Size: 1,434KB | Date: Dec 2003 | Pages: 34

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