Inching closer to address the distress of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) which face infinite delays in receiving payments for their supplies to bigger companies, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has floated draft guidelines for setting up of operating Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) after receiving public comments for concept paper "Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) Factoring-Trade Receivables Exchange", floated in March, 2014.
This development follows RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's promise of setting up TReDS, whose model is similar to Mexican development bank Nafinsa's creation of an electronic platform on which any small firm can sell receivables.
As per the draft guidelines, TReDS will facilitate the discounting of both invoices as well as bills of exchange and provide the platform to bring these participants together for facilitating uploading, accepting, discounting, trading and settlement of the invoices/bills of MSMEs.
Further, in the eligibility criteria for setting up and operating TReDS, RBI has proposed a minimum paid up voting equity capital of Rs 100 crore, in which promoters should own at least 40% that is to be locked in for a period of five years from the commencement of business of TReDS. Any shareholding higher than 40% is to be brought down to 40% within three years, which would be reduced to 30% within a period of 10 years and 26% within 12 years from the date of commencement of business of TReDS.
The guidelines were proposed for economically important Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which continue to face constraints in obtaining adequate finance, particularly in terms of their ability to convert their trade receivables into liquid funds.
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