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How Asset-Based Loans Can Help Businesses Grow Faster


Every business needs to borrow money at different times in order to support their growth and operations. While there are various types of loans available specifically for businesses, the asset-based loans (ABLs) have become a more attractive option. Matthew Ledvina is a managing director of a venture capital firm headquartered in London, which provides asset-based loans to firm throughout the globe. Mr Ledvina underlines the importance of asset-based loans in propelling the rapid growth of companies.

What is Asset-Based Loan?

Unlike many other typical business loans, an asset-backed loan is granted to a company on the basis of their current assets. To be exact, assets including inventory accounts receivable and machinery can act the collateral for the loan. In addition, the loan amount issued to a company is dependent on the value of their collateral assets.

Acting as a revolving line of credit, the loans backed by assets spawns various advantages like using unpaid invoices as collateral. It means that as the customers of a business pay their outstanding amounts, the loan gets automatically repaid. Eventually, this allows companies to borrow sums of money on an ongoing basis.

Why Businesses Should Use Such Loans?

Asset-based loans act an ideal choice for generating working capital that can ultimately act as the extra cash flow for the businesses. For growing, it is necessary for businesses to kick in extra cash so that they can enlarge the scale of their operations. Additionally, it is also possible to use ABLs to compensate for the ongoing temporary losses.

Advantages Offered

Apart from being available to businesses of all sizes, asset-based loans offer multiple advantages to the borrowers. Some of the key benefits are as follows:

·   The process of applying for an ABL is simple and there is a significantly lesser hassle as 
    compared to many other loans

·   Another major plus point of ABLs is instant issuing of the loan amount, which allows
    businesses to get that much-needed money in emergency situations at the earliest

·   The eligibility and amount of loan does not depend on the credit score of the business but on
    the assets itself

·   The interest rate on an ABL loan is quite less as compared to unsecured loans



For modern-day businesses, asset-based loans are one of the best and easiest ways of arranging extra capital. The numerous benefits of ABLs have made it a popular choice not only among start-ups and medium-scale businesses but large companies too.

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