RE: Dynamic Discounting19 Dec 2015 10:47
Johnny, we have advanced £67m or $100m as of october...yes still no where near the volume we would like be STILL respectable for the first year when compared to other factoring providers first year volumes.
TEP registration process was onerous with 3 payment cycle delay (3 x 30/60/90 day's of waiting depending on how quickly the buyer normally pays). This is being fixed to just one payment cycle to the tungsten designated bank account - speeding up how fast the supplier can access TEP.
Add to that limited account base that TEP can be offered to due to restrictions from insight which have now been relaxed. Tungsten are talking to other financing partners too to offer TEP to fill the gap where insight may still have restrictions on currency, territory and credit quality of the invoices it is able to finance on Tungsten Network
We have hired a top trade finance guy who works for one of the major trade finance players to be head of TEP. This is very intriguing.
Tungsten is going through an IT refresh and this includes a new web positioning. They have hired a new chief marketing officer Connie O'Brien starting Jan 4th.
So imo when you take into account that actualy £67m for first year/10 months is respectable esp when coupled with all the insight restrictions, marketing shortfalls, wrong people in place (as per Hurwitz in webinar) - if you fix all of that, volumes will start ramping and it will look dramatically different. This is by no means a busted flush which some are trying to make out that it is.