Trade Credit and Financing Instruments

Index

Accounts payable, 46

Advances. See Loans

Asset-backed commercial paper, 68, 73, 94

Asset-based lending, 42

Bach categorization methodology, 16

Bank guarantee, 59–60

Bank instruments, 71–72

factoring, 55, 57–58

international trade, 57, 59–61

self-liquidating loans, 54–55

supply chain finance, 45, 60, 63–65

Bank payment obligation, 65

Berne Union, 2–3

Business relationships, 41–45

Capital goods, 83

Collection services, 59

Commercial letter of credit, 59

Commercial papers, 53–54, 65–66, 94

Concentration risk, 86–89

Conduit, 66

Consumer goods, 83

Contract enforcement, 34

Contractual dilution, 84

Corporate characteristics

financial motivation, 38–41

real motivations, 35–38

Credit risk framework, 75–91

individual level, 77–86

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