How Creative Financing Can Ease Supply Chain Strains

SupplyChainBrain
17 Jan 202211:00

Summary

TLDR在这段视频中,John Felix,作为White Oak Global Advisors的董事总经理,讨论了中型企业在供应链中断、运输问题和疫情影响下所面临的财务挑战。他强调了创造性融资解决方案的重要性,如通过加速应收账款的回收或将应收账款变现来改善现金流。Felix还提到了风险评估在融资决策中的作用,并建议企业在融资时考虑成本、风险容忍度以及资本用途。此外,他强调了为应对未来不确定性,企业需要在供应商、分销渠道、运输提供商和融资方面创造选择性,以保持运营和财务的灵活性。

Takeaways

  • 😀 中间市场公司在过去18到24个月面临了供应链、运输和疫情等多方面的挑战。
  • 💰 这些挑战导致许多中间市场公司现金流紧张,急需找到资本和改善现金流管理的方法。
  • 🔍 公司需要找到理解其困境并提供合适产品方案的融资方。
  • 🚀 加速现金流是这些公司目前的主要目标,可以通过多种方式实现,如加速应收账款的回收。
  • 🔄 客户也可能因为多种因素而寻求延长付款期限,这要求供应商提供融资支持。
  • 📈 中间市场公司可以通过出售或变现应收账款来加速现金流。
  • 🏦 融资方会对债务人的信用风险进行评估,以确定应收账款的变现价值和可收回性。
  • 💼 动态贴现是一种融资方式,企业可能无法获得全部欠款,但可以更快地获得支付。
  • 📊 融资成本与企业的盈利能力、信用质量和杠杆水平有关,这些因素决定了资本成本。
  • 📈 通货膨胀和利率上升增加了企业的资本成本,给企业带来了额外的挑战。
  • 🚨 使用贷款加速供应商支付虽然短期内有效,但长期可能带来债务累积的风险。
  • 🔑 企业在评估非银行融资方时,需要衡量其可靠性与传统银行融资的对比。
  • 🛡️ 中间市场公司应准备应对未来不确定性,通过创造性融资增加运营和财务灵活性。
  • 🌐 企业应建立长期资产与长期债务、工作资本资产与短期债务的匹配,以提高灵活性。

Q & A

  • 什么是中型企业目前面临的主要挑战?

    -中型企业在过去18至24个月中面临了供应链中断、运输中断、天气相关中断以及疫情等多方面的挑战,导致许多企业现金流紧张,需要寻找资本和改善现金流管理的方法。

  • 如何理解所谓的“创造性供应链融资”?

    -创造性供应链融资是指通过创新的金融手段来解决供应链中的资金问题,比如加速应收账款的收集,或者通过出售或变现应收账款来改善现金流。

  • 为什么中型企业需要找到理解其困境的融资方?

    -找到理解中型企业困境的融资方可以确保融资方提供的产品能够满足企业的实际需求,避免将企业硬塞进固定的融资模式中。

  • 加速现金流周期对中型企业来说为什么很重要?

    -加速现金流周期可以帮助中型企业解决当前的现金流紧张问题,提高资金的流动性,从而更好地应对市场变化和经营挑战。

  • 企业如何通过供应链融资来加速应收账款的收集?

    -企业可以通过出售或变现应收账款来加速收款,这取决于企业的规模和最终付款方的信用质量,以及融资方对信用风险的评估。

  • 什么是动态折扣,它如何帮助企业改善现金流?

    -动态折扣是一种融资手段,企业通过放弃部分应收账款的金额来换取更快的收款,这有助于降低企业的资本成本并改善现金流。

  • 企业在考虑供应链融资时,如何评估融资方的信用风险?

    -企业需要评估融资方的财务实力和信用状况,比如是否是大型连锁企业或有足够财务保障的公司,还是信用状况较差的小型企业。

  • 在当前经济环境下,企业如何平衡债务和资本成本?

    -企业需要根据盈利能力、债务水平和最终客户的信用质量来评估资本成本,并在债务和资本成本之间找到平衡,避免因债务过多而增加财务风险。

  • 非银行融资方在供应链融资中扮演什么角色?

    -非银行融资方提供了传统银行之外的融资选择,它们可能提供更灵活的融资方案,但成本可能更高,适合那些在传统银行难以获得融资的中型企业。

  • 企业应如何准备应对未来可能的不确定性?

    -企业应通过创造可选性来准备应对未来不确定性,包括对供应商、分销渠道、运输提供商和制造分销设施的可选性,以及在融资方面的可选性,确保长期资产与长期债务相匹配,工作资本资产与短期债务相匹配。

Outlines

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💬 供应链融资的创意解决方案

约翰·菲利克斯讨论了中型市场公司在过去18到24个月中面临的供应链、运输和天气相关的破坏。这些公司通常资金紧张,急需资金来管理现金周期。约翰强调,找到一个理解借款人需求并能提供合适产品的融资方是至关重要的。他提到加快现金周期是关键,通过出售或变现应收账款等方式可以实现这一目标,具体方式取决于应收账款的规模和信用质量。

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📈 资本成本与风险管理

在讨论供应链融资时,约翰提到了借款人的资本成本。对于利润高且杠杆率低的借款人,资本成本较低;而对于初创企业或信用质量较差的借款人,资本成本较高。随着通货膨胀的增长,资本成本也在上升,这增加了公司的负担。在使用贷款加速供应商付款时,约翰提醒需要考虑借款的用途和风险容忍度,因为增加债务会带来额外的财务负担。

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🏦 非银行融资与创意选择

约翰解释了非银行贷款方如何在供应链融资中发挥作用。虽然传统的商业银行仍然是主要的资金提供者,但新兴的非银行贷款方逐渐占据更多市场份额,因为它们能为表现不佳的中型市场借款人提供资金,尽管成本较高。约翰建议中型市场公司通过创造融资选择权,平衡长期资产和短期资产的融资需求,从而提高运营和财务的灵活性。

Mindmap

Keywords

💡供应链融资

供应链融资是一种金融产品,旨在帮助企业解决供应链中的资金问题。在视频中,供应链融资被提出作为一种解决中型企业因供应链中断、运输问题以及疫情影响而面临的资金紧张问题的方法。例如,企业可以通过加速应收账款的收集来改善现金流,或者通过出售或变现应收账款来获得资金。

💡中型企业

中型企业通常指的是规模介于小型企业和大型企业之间的公司。视频中提到的中型企业在过去18到24个月内面临了供应链中断、运输问题和疫情等多重挑战,导致许多企业现金流紧张,需要寻找资本以改善现金周期管理。

💡现金周期

现金周期是指企业从支付成本到收回销售收入所需的时间。在视频中,改善现金周期是中型企业努力实现的目标,通过供应链融资可以加速应收账款的收集,从而缩短现金周期,增强企业的流动性。

💡动态贴现

动态贴现是一种融资策略,企业可以提前以低于应收账款全额的价格获得资金。视频中提到,通过动态贴现,企业虽然不能获得应收账款的全部金额,但可以更快地获得资金,这是企业权衡资金成本和时间的一种做法。

💡债务

债务是指企业或个人所欠的款项,需要在未来偿还。视频中讨论了企业在利用贷款加速供应商支付时可能面临的债务累积风险,尤其是在利率上升的情况下,债务成本可能会增加。

💡风险评估

风险评估是金融机构在提供贷款或融资前对借款人的信用状况进行的评估。视频中提到,贷款机构会对中型企业进行风险评估,以确定是否能够收回资金,并据此确定贷款的价格和条件。

💡非银行贷款机构

非银行贷款机构是指不隶属于传统银行系统的金融机构,它们提供贷款和融资服务。视频中提到,随着商业环境的变化,非银行贷款机构正在获得更多的市场份额,因为它们可能更加灵活,能够为中型企业提供所需的资本。

💡资本成本

资本成本是指企业为获得和使用资金所需支付的成本,通常以利率的形式体现。视频中提到,资本成本会根据企业的盈利能力、信用状况和市场环境等因素而有所不同,影响企业融资的成本。

💡通货膨胀

通货膨胀是指货币购买力下降,商品和服务价格普遍上升的经济现象。视频中提到,通货膨胀的增长导致资本成本上升,这可能会增加企业的融资成本,对企业的财务状况产生影响。

💡可选性

可选性指的是企业在融资、供应链管理等方面拥有的多种选择和灵活性。视频中强调,中型企业应该在融资、供应商、分销渠道等方面创造可选性,以增强企业的运营和财务灵活性,准备应对未来的不确定性。

Highlights

中间市场公司在过去18至24个月面临供应链、运输和疫情等多重挑战。

许多中间市场公司因这些事件而资金紧张,寻求资本和管理现金流的方法。

供应链融资可以帮助解决中间市场公司的困境。

找到理解借款人困境并提供合适产品的融资方是首要任务。

加速现金流是中间市场公司目前的主要目标。

通过出售或变现应收账款来加速收款。

最终客户的支付能力影响应收账款的出售或变现方式。

通过资产基础融资设施进行应收账款的循环创造和变现。

动态折扣实践允许企业以较低的价格更快地获得付款。

借款人的资本成本受其盈利能力、信誉和杠杆率影响。

通货膨胀导致资本成本上升,给公司带来额外的复杂性。

使用贷款加速供应商付款需考虑债务累积和利率上升的风险。

评估非银行融资方的可信度需要考虑其市场份额和可靠性。

中间市场公司需要为意外情况准备,使用创造性融资策略。

创造选择性是借款人的关键,包括供应商、分销渠道和融资。

资产负债表的长期资产应与长期债务相匹配,以提供灵活性。

Transcripts

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how creative financing can ease supply

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chain strains my guest is john felix he

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is managing director of white oak global

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advisors hi john good afternoon how are

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you doing bob good thanks very much for

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being with me today so describe for me

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as you see it

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the plot to the plight today of middle

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market companies in terms of being able

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to gain leverage with suppliers and

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transportation providers

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well i'll tell you the

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the middle market companies today have

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had just one heck of a ride over the

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course of the last 18 to 24 months if

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it's not

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supply chain disruptions it's it's

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transportation disruptions it's

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weather-related disruptions the pandemic

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transportation everything has wreaked

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havoc on these middle market providers

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and so many of them are

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cash strapped as a result of these this

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confluence of events and many of them

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are kind of scratching their heads going

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where can we find some capital how can

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we better manage our cash cycle and a

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lot of them are just scratching their

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heads because they haven't been exposed

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to what the market has to offer for them

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of course they could always

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you know short short change or or

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stretch out payment terms with their

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suppliers but that isn't very a very uh

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long-term very good long-term strategy

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i'm guessing

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um but let's talk about how supply chain

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financing actually comes into the

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picture and more specifically how

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so-called creative supply chain

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financing could be implemented to solve

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some of these problems how can they turn

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to supply chain financing to address the

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woes that you have just laid out for us

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well first and foremost you've got to

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find a good financing party that

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understands the plight of you as a

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potential borrower and make sure that

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that party has the appropriate product

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offering to meet your meet your needs

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many lenders

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of of these supply chain products have a

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box that they're trying to fit you in so

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first get to know your borrower your

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lender to make sure they have the

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capabilities to provide you with a menu

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of options but in reality

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accelerating the cash cycle is really

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the objective that these middle market

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companies are fighting for right now and

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that comes in a variety of forms

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first and foremost as you work as if you

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are a smaller company and you have you

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are selling a product

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you would like to find an ability to

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accelerate the collection of those

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receivables now i will tell you and many

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of these companies are well aware of

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this

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their ultimate customers customers as

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well have been impacted by a variety of

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factors so they too are looking to use

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you as a vendor

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uh to finance their operations so

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they're stretching out their payables as

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well but there are products there are

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means for you as a middle market

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borrower to either sell or monetize

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your receivables now how you go about

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that is going to be a function of scale

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and the credit quality of the ultimate

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payor the debtor of those receivables

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and an analysis is undertaken by the the

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party who will be lending you this

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capital to ascertain okay is this a

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walmart is this a large national chain

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or company that has tremendous comfort

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in their financial wherewithal or is it

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yet another

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smallish

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credit where there might be some risk

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associated with that so an analysis is

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undertaken to assess that what we call

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credit risk of the debtor and you can

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either sell that receivable outright to

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a party or monetize it through the

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installation of an asset based a

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receivable based financing facility that

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would result in a reoccurring creation

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of receivables and monetization of those

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receivables and that's more of a pooled

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analysis that is undertaken however

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oftentimes there are one-off larger

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transactions that are undertaken by

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borrowers and lenders

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to facilitate a single receivable now

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each of those of course has pricing

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components structural elements and risk

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associated with them

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but many uh lenders such as white oak

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will conduct a risk assessment to

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determine whether or not we're going to

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get our money

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and ultimately how much we pay you for

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the value of that receivable and

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ascertain the collectibility of that

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receivable

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does it involve within case of

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receivables to practice so-called

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dynamic discounting where you may not

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get a hundred percent of what is owed

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you but in exchange for that you get

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paid faster that that's exactly right

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and that i use the phrase that's the

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cost of doing business and what it

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really comes down to is what is your

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cost of capital as a borrower now if you

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are a highly profitable

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well-established

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borrower with a fairly low leverage

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profile your cost of capital is going to

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be much lower you know two to four to

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five percent on an annual basis however

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if you are a startup if you've had some

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performance uh

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variability uh if your ultimate

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customers may not be the best credit

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quality well that will translate into a

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higher risk for the lender and then

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ultimately result in you paying more for

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that capital

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not to mention even as we speak the cost

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of capital is going up rather

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precipitatively with the you know with

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the growth of inflation

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which becomes a concern that a lot of

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companies haven't had for a number of

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years so that makes it more you know

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that adds another complication to the

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issue right oh yeah there's that too

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the overall macro factors that we're all

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fighting against uh are going to

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translate and we're starting to see now

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those interest rates whether it be your

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home mortgage your bank line of credit

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what have you start to creep up and cost

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all of the consumers and borrowers more

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than it had as recently as a month ago

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yeah now in this

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when it comes to using loans to speed up

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vendor payments which may be in the

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short term or i don't know even in the

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long term a good way to go in selected

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cases

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is there then a risk though of amassing

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too much debt especially at a time when

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interest rates are going up you know

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you're exactly right and the way i

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describe it to our borrowers it's a

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function of what is your mr borrower

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what is your risk tolerance and what

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will you be using this capital for are

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you going to be taking out a dividend

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are you going to be financing working

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capital are you going to be growing your

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business investing in equipment

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investing in new technologies you know

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with incremental debt

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comes obviously the incremental

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obligation and burden of servicing that

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debt

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and these operational um or these risk

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tolerances come in the form of

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operational risk financial risk

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technological risk all of them have to

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be ascertained and evaluated before you

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determine how much if any incremental

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debt you put on your balance sheet how

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do companies go about assessing the the

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usability or the trust of non-bank

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parties involved in supply chain

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financing today which there are quite a

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few um

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how do we measure that against

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traditional bank financing you know it's

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interesting that you bring that up

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because there are more and more what we

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call unregulated lenders entering into

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the space every day

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and where traditionally banks commercial

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banks be it regional or large national

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banks have been the go-to provider of

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capital however they too are under

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they've been on a

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10-year bull run

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of of credit and performance as the

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economy has continued to operate on a

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very robust basis but they too are

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starting to read the tea leaves and are

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starting to tighten up on their credit

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uh tolerance their credit filter is

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getting more fine and more fine so in

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comes this new breed now it's not

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relatively new these unregulated lenders

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have been around for a couple of decades

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now but these unregulated lenders are

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taking more market share and wallet

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share away from the commercial banks

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because they have become time and time

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again proven to be a little bit less

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reliant or a little bit less reliable

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for the middle market borrower who may

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have had some you know performance

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challenges over the course of the last

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24 months with the trifecta of

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pandemic

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supply chain transportation tariff

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impacts that have all been

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affecting these middle market borrowers

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so the unregulated lenders now

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oftentimes they're a little bit more

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expensive

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but they provide you the capital that is

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needed to grow your business or simply

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maintain your business

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so bottom line how can middle market

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companies prepare for the unexpected

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which i guess is just another way of

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saying the future i mean

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how can they use creative financing to

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do that you know it's interesting um i i

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i mentioned many many days a week about

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creating optionality

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in you as a borrower and sharing with

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them you need to have optionality

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whether it be your suppliers suppliers

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excuse me optionality for your

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distribution channels your

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transportation providers and your

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manufacturing distribution facilities

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and that also goes with having

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optionality with regard to your

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financing

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you should have a balance sheet that has

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a matching of long-term assets financed

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with long-term debt

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your working capital assets of of

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inventory and receivable should be

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financed with short-term

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debt and maximizing that matching allows

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you as a borrower to have the

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optionality provide the operational um

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flexibility that you need and the

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financial flexibility that you need

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because if you find yourself leveraging

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up your current assets to invest in

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long-term assets like real estate

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machinery and equipment and such that

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mismatch ultimately will create um a

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challenge for you when you actually do

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have a cash crunch and you can't you

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can't monetize those liquid assets when

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you need them yeah

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well it is good to know that there are

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creative financing options out there for

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the middle market companies which as you

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say are being so terribly squeezed today

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but there is a possibility for relief in

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the form of these of these uh particular

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offerings so john felix of white oak

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global advisors thanks so much for your

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little uh giving us a little bit of

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education on this topic just for these

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few minutes thanks very much for being

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with me today appreciate it bob my

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pleasure happy holidays to you and you

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