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Fibus met their different requirements - Factoring, Trade credit and IT solutions in various contexts: strengthening cash flow position, supporting an international build-up strategy, optimizing funding for a fast growing group in Europe.

Industries: Regulatory and pharmaceutical advisory services, Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations, Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures.

Last Tuesday, June 25th, Fibus in partnership with the AFDCC, hosted a webinar to discucc the topic: "The Credit Manager, at the heart of cussess of a factoring project."

• reinstating the Credit Manager to their righful place as a key factor in the success of a proejct?
• what decisive actions can the Credit Manager take for a successful factoring project?
• coordination bewteen Credit Management, treasury and IT.

Cheaper, more flexible, and more efficient: factoring remains the most attractive form of short-term financing. However, to deploy it to its full potential and at the most opportune moment, it needs to be considered well in advance. This allows the shareholder to choose their objective: financing growth—whether external or organic—or facilitating dividend payments.

Interview with Thibaut Robet and Maxime Bertin, published in Les Décideurs.

The AFDCC (French Association of Credit Managers & Advisors) interviewed Thibaut Robet, CEO of Fibus, about Fibus's digital solutions, especially ARI Trade.

In 2023, construction activity decreased by 0.6% in volume. The outlook for 2024 remains unfavourable, despite a stabilisation or even a very modest reduction in interest rates.

Some of our latest signings, with SMEs and ETIs in France and abroad.

Fibus met their different requirements - Factoring, Trade credit and IT solutions in various contexts: handle many subsidiaries, securing cashflow, carve-out, buy-out by private equity.

Restructuring cases have undeniably increased. Repayment of state-guaranteed loans, extension of payment deadlines, tightening of conditions for bank credit: tensions on company treasuries are mounting. An interview of Décideurs Magazine with Gaëtan du Halgouët, Managing Director, and Romain Chaufour, Development Director, of Fibus (formerly Chateaudun Crédit), a factoring and credit insurance consultancy firm.

Confidential factoring, or: the art of having your invoices financed without anyone knowing. Romain Chaufour, head of development at Fibus, was questioned by Le Nouvel Économiste on the goals, advantages and special features of this financing tool.

Romain Chaufour, Development Director at Fibus, France's leading factoring advisory firm, urges investors to consider factoring early on to optimise the financing of their future investments. Read his interview in Le Figaro Partner.

Discover the Décryptage programme conducted by Stéphane Pedrazzi, a BFMTV business journalist, who interviews Thibaut Robet and Maxime Bertin. The Managing Director and Factoring Director of Fibus answer the following questions:

▪ To what extent is factoring a solution for financing growth?
▪ What is the potential of the factoring market?
▪ How do you set up a factoring contract?
▪ How do its digital solutions enable Fibus to stand out from the competition?
▪ How much does factoring cost?

Some signings achieved with some ETIs in France and International, in concrete, insulation and pharmaceutical industries.

These clients all benefit from the whole Fibus’ expertise: factoring, credit insurance and digital solutions for monitoring programmes.

Some signings achieved in Factoring: in France and international, for SME and ETI, in construction industry, wholesale, industrial subcontracting...

Fibus' expertise covers 100% of factoring needs, including credit insurance and digital solutions for monitoring programmes.

This partnership will allow the two independent brokers, which are leaders on their insurance and customer receivables markets, to provide companies with a complementary and expanded range of services in France and internationally. The deal includes Fibus’ acquisition of Servyr’s credit insurance and factoring businesses.

Read the interview with Maxime Bertin and Thibaut Robet at IPEM
▪ What is the use of factoring for equity investments and investment funds?
▪ What recommendations would you make to an investor in 2024?
▪ What recommendations would you make to an investor in 2024?

Watch the interview with Romain Chaufour on CFNEWS with Bogdan Kowal

The Fibus Development Director answers the following questions :
▪ What is the relationship between factoring and M&A funds?
▪ What is the advantage of factoring for investment fund holdings?
▪ What is the added value of Fibus?
▪ Is factoring expensive?

Fibus also knows how to do "spot" financing! This type of contract allows for the release of punctual financing:

• It provides financial departments with a credit line immediately and rapidly; very useful before the closing of accounts, it enhances the company's financial ratios (the assignment of receivables is done "without recourse");
  
  
• Like factoring, this type of contract is based on the purchase of commercial receivables, but it is implemented only in cases of specific needs (in factoring, contracts typically last an average of 3 years).
  
  

This project enabled our client, a French digital transformation consulting company, to benefit from a 7 million euros financing line "deconsolidating French GAAP," just days before the end of its fiscal year.

Signature on the French market by our factoring brokerage team, with the implementation of a domestic and export programme in the healthcare sector.

Our client is a French manufacturer of medical devices for interventional radiology (MRI), with annual sales of €190m, exporting to the USA.

Fibus has set up a Confidential Balance Assignment Programme, in € and USD, with more than 300 international clinics and hospitals. The financing line obtained is €5M with €65M of assigned turnover.

Being a broker is not just about negotiating: innovation, through the creation of new types of contracts in collaboration with our partners, insurers or factors, is just as important.

Did you know? Factoring is the main source of short-term financing for businesses in France and is equivalent to 17.6% of GDP. Fibus (formerly Chateaudun Crédit) is Europe’s leading factoring brokerage and helps businesses insure and finance their accounts receivable. What sets it apart? A unique offering spanning factoring, credit insurance and digital solutions. Here we interview Gaëtan du Halgouët, joint Managing Director of Fibus.

To continue performing well in a strained economic climate, private equity funds will need to keep coming up with ingenious ways both to free up the financing they require for new investments and to optimise their existing portfolios.

Factoring is one such solution, and also the least costly, simplest and relatively under-used. It is thriving as a means of freeing up unused cash rapidly. Read our Décideurs magazine interview with Thibaut Robet and Maxime Bertin from Fibus (formerly Chateaudun Crédit).

Discover the interview of Thibaut Robet in the programme LE GRAND ENTRETIEN with Thomas Hugues produced by Le Point and B SMART!

The Managing Director of Fibus answers the following questions:
▪ How does factoring serve the growth of international mid-sized companies?
▪ Why is it the tool to secure their activities amidst an economic downturn ?
▪ How does ARI Trade, Fibus' digital solution, optimise factoring and credit insurance programmes?

In the January edition of Décideurs magazine, Thibaut Robet and Gaëtan du Halgouët, founding partners of Fibus, outline the many benefits of factoring, including during an economic downturn, and share their experience in corporate restructuring.

Gaëtan du Halgouët, founder of Fibus (formerly Chateaudun Crédit) and Romain Chaufour, factoring director, offered their expertise to Décideurs Corporate Finance. Regardless of the economic context or particular circumstances of the company involved, they explain why factoring is the least costly and most stable financing option available.

Thibaut Robet and Eléonore Boccara talk about factoring in an interview with BFM Business. They also discuss the following subjects: our three business lines serving business financing, our international development, and ARI, our new digital offering.