Optimise the hidden performance of your factoring and trade credit insurance programmes

Your contracts work - but are they operating at their full potential?

Fibus uncovers often underused financial efficiency levers: renegotiable margins, adjusted guarantees, additional mobilisable cash, monitoring tools…

Our teams combine expertise in financing, risk management and digital monitoring of financing data to transform your existing programmes into true drivers of sustainable performance.

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4 levers to optimise your factoring and trade credit insurance programmes

Contracts, insurance, monitoring and data: identify optimisation opportunities within your receivables portfolio.

Companies often have effective factoring and trade credit insurance arrangements in place, but many performance levers remain underused.

Our experts audit your existing programmes to identify areas for improvement: contract optimisation, better use of trade credit insurance, digital monitoring of operations, and stronger customer risk management tools.

The goal: unlock additional financing, strengthen risk coverage and sustainably improve the performance of your receivables portfolio.

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Delegating trade credit insurance from your factoring agreement: a simple lever to finance more

When properly structured or delegated, trade credit insurance does more than protect receivables: it increases your financing capacity and releases cash to support growth.

When embedded within a factoring agreement, its effectiveness can be limited by standardised cover or contractual constraints.
By delegating the policy to a specialised insurer, you regain autonomy and performance: the factor can finance more, faster, and on the basis of better-controlled risk.

This setup notably allows:

  • Broader coverage, including for customers partially covered or initially declined
  • Better financing conditions: pricing, advance rates and flexibility
  • A consolidated view of risk, enabling more precise coordination between trade credit insurance and factoring

Fibus works with all major insurers on the market to align trade credit insurance and factoring finance, and to identify the most effective structure based on your strategic priorities.

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Boost the performance of your financing with the ARI Trade software suite

ARI Trade is the digital solution developed by Fibus to automate the management of your factoring and trade credit insurance contracts.

It secures and streamlines exchanges with factors and insurers, enhances your financing capacity, and frees up time for your Finance teams.

The solution that automates your assignments, secures your exchanges and maximises your financing capacity.

Improve reliability and speed

ARI connects your company directly to factors and credit insurers to streamline all exchanges.

No more manual re-entry, no more errors: your assignments are transmitted automatically and in full compliance.

  • Factor compliance rate from 70% to 100%
  • Elimination of manual tasks
  • Automated and secure file transmission

Maximise the potential of your factoring programme

ARI unlocks the full value of your contract to increase your financing capacity and coverage.

  • +15% additional financing capacity
  • +12% additional coverage rate
  • Full visibility on available optimisation levers

A consolidated view of your receivables

ARI centralises all your factoring and trade credit insurance data to provide a clear view of customer risk and financial performance.

  • Decision-support dashboards
  • Automated history tracking and monitoring
  • Real-time reporting and alerts

Reduce administrative workload, focus on strategy

ARI automates up to 80% of tasks related to factoring management.

Your teams gain efficiency and can focus on higher-value activities.

  • 80% time savings
  • Business support included
  • Intuitive interface, no Excel management required

Security, interoperability and performance at large-group standards

  • ARI integrates with more than 100 ERP systems and processes over €100 million in invoices each year
  • Fibus has enabled the financing of €43 billion in receivables through its intermediary role and manages €18 billion in trade credit insurance guarantees in 2024
  • Fibus has been ISO 27001 certified since September 2024
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Receivables: a source of performance that is often underexploited

From commercial information to scoring, every lever can transform your receivables into a driver of financing and growth. Fibus helps you unlock its full potential.

4 optimisation levers for your accounts receivable

Commercial information: anticipate to perform better

Anticipate defaults before they occur through a real-time view of your customers’ and prospects’ financial health.

Fibus relies on leading commercial intelligence providers (Ellisphere, Creditsafe, Altares…) to enrich your analysis and strengthen the preventive actions implemented by your credit insurer.

Your benefits:

  • Access to up-to-date, actionable information on your customers, suppliers and competitors.
  • Early detection of weak signals before they appear in insurer decisions.
  • Faster reaction to payment incidents or business slowdowns.
  • Stronger dialogue with insurers to adjust credit limits.
  • More targeted collection and guarantee strategies.

Objective: active monitoring to manage risk, not just endure it.

Collections: a direct lever for cash and performance

Well-managed accounts receivable also means protected cash flow.

Fibus and its specialised partners support the collection of your receivables — on an ad hoc basis or over the long term — to release cash and secure your processes.

Proposed solutions:

  • Targeted recovery actions on overdue or disputed receivables.
  • Structuring and digitisation of collection processes.
  • Coordinated management between factor, credit insurer and internal teams.

Objective: reduce payment delays and turn risk into liquidity.

Guarantees: secure your commitments without tying up capital

Strengthen your financial solidity with guarantees tailored to your needs (performance bonds, advance payment guarantees, payment guarantees, etc.).

Fibus selects the best solution from its partners to secure your commitments in France and internationally.

Benefits:

  • Greater reliability in tenders and public procurement processes.
  • Reduced need for bank guarantees.
  • Simplified administrative and financial management of guarantees.

Objective: secure your contracts without immobilising your resources.

Scoring and data: decide fast, invest wisely

Scoring turns financial data into a decision-making tool.

In partnership with Creditsafe, Fibus helps you assess the creditworthiness of your customers and prospects through reliable predictive reports.

Scoring enables you to:

  • Segment your customers based on financial strength.
  • Identify reliable payers and exclude high-risk profiles.
  • Adapt your commercial terms (payment terms, amounts, guarantees).
  • Make confident go/no-go decisions before any new partnership.

Objective: strengthen your commercial decisions through data reliability.

Challenge your contracts to unlock hidden value

Before renegotiating a contract or changing provider, it is essential to objectively assess the optimisation potential of your existing arrangements.

Fibus experts carry out a complete, independent and confidential audit of your factoring and trade credit insurance contracts to identify financial, contractual and operational improvement levers.

This audit highlights in particular:

• Costs above market standards (factoring fees, financing commissions)
• Restrictive or unsuitable contractual clauses
• Insufficient customer risk coverage
• Untapped off-balance-sheet opportunities (IFRS / local GAAP)
• Poor coordination between factoring and trade credit insurance

We provide a clear, actionable reading of your contracts to identify short- and medium-term optimisation opportunities.

Contract optimisation is not only about reducing costs: it also improves financing capacity, credit line flexibility, processing times and overall operational efficiency.

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Our approach: activating every accounts receivable financing lever

More liquidity. More visibility. More control.

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Identify dormant levers

 

Before renegotiating, you need to measure.

Our audits highlight underexploited financial and contractual margins: above-market fees, unsuitable clauses, insufficient coverage, limits misaligned with your business, and overlooked synergies between factoring and trade credit insurance.

You are left with a clear, neutral and confidential diagnosis to support your decision-making.

⇒ Gain negotiation power and reduce your costs.

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Optimise without changing everything

 

Efficiency does not always require a new contract.

Our experts fine-tune your existing arrangements to maximise their impact: targeted renegotiation, adjustment of advance rates, optimisation of reserves, alignment of factoring and trade credit insurance parameters, and precise monitoring of credit lines.

You improve your cash position, flexibility and coverage – without changing provider when it is not necessary.

⇒ + cash, + flexibility, + visibility.

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Transform over time

 

Optimisation only delivers value when it is sustained over time.

Fibus supports your teams on an ongoing basis: continuous benchmarking, action plans, digital monitoring, and coordination with factors and trade credit insurers.

Every contract becomes a long-term lever for growth, flexibility and financial control.

⇒ Your financing structures evolve with your ambitions — not the other way around.

Discover the potential gains still hidden within your contracts.

Fibus supports finance departments and investment funds in reviewing, optimising and upgrading their arrangements to maximise operational and financial efficiency.

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