Trade Credit and Risk Management

Introduction

Trade credit is now extensively used in both international and domestic transactions in developed and developing countries. Therefore, the financing of trade credit is still a requirement for enterprises and an area for the development of market offers. The range of solutions to finance trade credit is fairly diversified, spanning from offers by financial intermediaries to markets, with a very interesting set of intermediate solutions arising from the application of new technologies to financial services; therefore, it is very important to delve into the motivations of the interest, in particular, of new providers. A distinctive role for financiers can be identified in the credit risk mitigation determined by trade credit such that ...