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June 3, 2024

B2B financing: a catalyst for growth

Business growth often depends on the right push at the right time.

B2B financing can provide this.

There are a range of financing options that you can use directly or offer to your clients. Finding the right one from the right provider can be difficult.

Let’s look closer at this growing field and its powerful potential for smaller businesses and large corporations.

What is B2B financing?

Business-to-business (B2B) financing refers to a category of loans and credit especially for businesses or organizations working with other business customers.

It includes financial products ranging from traditional banks' business loans to alternative lenders' bespoke and industry-specific financing solutions.

All of these allow your business to access capital and improve its cash flow. This helps cover gaps in your operational costs, sales cycles, payroll funding, etc., and ultimately drive growth.

How does B2B financing work?

Once you apply for a B2B financing solution, the basic process is as follows: application process, approval, funding, and repayment.

The precise steps of each stage vary according to your company's eligibility, credit requirements, and the specific lending solutions and providers involved.

B2B financing providers

There are three main types of institutions you can consider for business financing:

1. Traditional banks

These financial institutions have dominated the B2B lending market for years. They offer businesses lending services such as business loans, lines of credit and credit cards. They have an established lending criteria for approving businesses with collateral and a good credit score.

2. Credit unions

Credit unions offer similar services to banks for specific industries or geographies.

Their goal is to provide their members with the best possible financial terms for their financial services and products.

3. Alternative lenders

The term ‘alternative lenders’ covers a range of different organizations, from challenger banks to specialist fintech lenders.

This type of finance provider first emerged in 2015 and has grown rapidly ever since. Global transaction volumes by alternative lenders (excluding data from China) surpassed 113 billion USD back in 2020.

Banks vs credit unions vs alternative lenders

Banks and credit unions have lengthier application processes than alternative lenders, but generally provide cheaper rates, too.

Banks are more easily accessible than credit unions, which might only have branches in specific areas. They are also easier to join. However, alternative providers are often easier to find and easier to join than both of them.

Each type of organization also has different approval rates for business customers. These change over time, but in April 2023, for example, the average approval rates for B2B small business loans were:

  • 13.5% for big banks
  • 18.5% for small banks
  • 19.8% for credit unions
  • 28.7% for alternative lenders

Alternative lenders generally have more financing options available than banks and credit unions, which often only offer the direct lending of bank loans or credit card solutions.

And alternative lenders often offer financing via technological innovation, which can be linked to value-added services, such as BNPL options. These include help with digital transformation, point of sale (POS) integration, automating existing processes, etc.

Two ways to use B2B financing

可以从两个主要角度来看待 B2B 融资。

1.利用企业融资。

您可以直接使用 B2B 业务融资。

这样做有几个好处。无论您是直接从供应商还是从第三方提供商处获得,都有这些好处。事实上,供应商很可能使用第三方供应商。其中许多好处来自于它带来的更多现金流

营运资金的增加使企业能够支付一系列现有开支,如房租、水电、用品等。

这有助于您抓住新的商机。例如,您可能需要突然购买库存,以满足客户的大额订单。

如果您希望扩大业务规模或扩展业务范围,增加的现金流也很有用。您可以用它来购买新设备、租赁新设施、增聘员工或增加营销和销售费用。

此外,它还能使贷款组合多样化,有助于风险管理。

2.为客户提供融资

为您的企业客户提供融资可对您的业务产生重大影响。您可以直接或通过第三方供应商进行融资。

它可以提高客户的平均订单量(AOV)购买频率客户忠诚度

与不提供这种服务的业内公司相比,这可以为您带来竞争优势

它还能提供借款人行为数据,让你深入了解客户群甚至市场趋势。

B2B 融资有哪些不同类型?

1.商业贷款

长期以来,商业贷款 推动了经济增长,尤其是中小型企业。这些贷款通常由银行和信用社提供。

要获得商业贷款,您的企业需要满足与信用度、营业额、公司规模、贷款期限和商业计划相关的特定标准。

这些重点在于辨别贷款是促进增长和价值的好债务,还是仅仅支持倒闭企业的坏账融资。

2.风险债务融资

风险债务融资通常提供给已从风险资本投资者处获得股权融资的早期高增长公司。

与传统债务融资不同,风险债务融资的结构通常是一种以股权为基础的贷款。这使贷款人有机会在未来购买贵公司的股权。

3.贸易信贷

贸易信贷 是一种允许您购买商品或服务并在日后付款的协议,通常在 30、60 或 90 天的净期限内付款。

不同供应商和行业的条款差异很大。根据业务关系的不同,条款也会随时间而变化。

有些供应商可能会为提前付款提供折扣。许多供应商对逾期付款收取利息或罚金。

4.股票产品

股权产品包括风险投资公司、天使或其他机构投资者以及股权众筹平台提供的股权投资。

这通常需要放弃部分企业所有权。与提供债务融资的贷款人相比,投资者可能要求更高的股权投资回报。

它们还可以包括其他基于股权的融资方案,如股票期权、可转换债务或认股权证。这些方案赋予投资者购买公司股票的权利。

5.发票融资

发票融资主要有两种类型。

发票贴现

发票贴现是一种短期融资方式,它能让你以折扣价向贷款人出售未付发票,从而迅速获得现金。

贷方会预支已开具发票的大部分价值。这样,您就不必等待客户支付全部欠款。

客户支付发票后,您将收到余额(减去贷款人的费用)。

发票保理

发票保理业务是指将您的发票以较低的价格出售给称为保理商的第三方融资机构。

保理商通常直接向客户收款,并按发票金额的一定比例(通常在 80%-90% 之间)预付给你。

保理商收取全额发票金额后,会扣除他们的费用并向您支付剩余款项。

此外,B2B 保理业务还可以将欠款和坏账风险转移给保理商,从而规避这些风险。

发票贴现和发票保理有什么区别

发票保理是指将发票出售给保理商,由保理商负责向客户收款。 发票贴现是指您将发票作为贷款抵押,同时继续对发票负责。

发票保理往往比发票贴现更贵,因为保理公司购买你的发票要承担更高的风险。不过,在某些情况下,保理也能释放您的资源,帮助改善您的收款流程。

6.其他

非银行现金流贷款是一种用公司流入的现金流偿还的无担保贷款。

经常性收入贷款是指贷款人根据您可预测的经常性收入流为您提供融资。初创企业和小企业通常会采用这种方式,因为它们有稳定的收入流,但没有大量资产作为抵押。

债券 是公司为向投资者筹集资金而发行的一种长期无担保债务工具。

夹层融资为公司提供无抵押担保的资金。夹层融资介于债务和股权之间,通常用于为扩张、收购或其他重大项目提供资金。

嵌入式融资

嵌入式金融是指将金融服务整合到非金融平台或产品中。它能让您的客户在销售点(POS)无缝获取融资选项。

这是一个类似的概念,甚至可以说是嵌入式支付的演变。

通过将 B2B 贷款嵌入您的平台,您可以方便快捷地为客户提供融资渠道。

摘要

B2B 融资涉及为其他企业提供服务的公司的贷款和信贷。

它涵盖广泛的金融产品,可以增加您的营运资金,促进您的业务扩展,并管理您的风险。

获得贷款所需的具体步骤会根据公司的资格和所选解决方案而有所不同。但主要流程包括申请、审批、拨款和还款。

B2B 融资提供商主要分为三类:

  • 传统银行
  • 信用社
  • 另类贷款人

每种方法都有其优势、批准率和成本结构。

另一方面,为企业客户提供 B2B 融资可以提高平均订单量和客户忠诚度,并提供对客户行为和市场趋势的洞察力。

B2B 融资主要有几种类型,包括

  • 商业贷款
  • 风险债务融资
  • 贸易信贷
  • 股票产品
  • 发票融资(包括贴现和保理业务)

其他选择包括非银行现金流贷款、经常性收入贷款、债券和夹层融资。

B2B 融资越来越多地嵌入销售点。这样,您或您的客户就可以方便快捷地获得融资。

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