Govt approves Credit Guarantee Funds for factoring for MSME

11 Dec 2014 Evaluate

In order to provide liquidity to MSME units and facilitate collection of receivables, the Cabinet has cleared a proposal for setting up Rs 500-crore Credit Guarantee Fund for factoring for MSME units, a financing arrangement for suppliers by making pre-payments against invoices.

A government’s notification highlighted that assuming a leverage of five times of the corpus, gross factoring transactions would cover Rs 20,000 crore per annum at the end of fifth year. The corpus is estimated to be Rs 492 crore at the end of fifth year and in the third year of operations, a mid-term review of the fund may be undertaken and can propose modifications. It further added that credit guarantee cover for a maximum of 50 percent of factored debt will be provided under the Fund. The Fund should be under National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company (NCGTC) and will have a Management Committee which will be responsible for all policy aspects of the Fund. Further, only transactions covered under the Factoring Regulation Act, 2011 are to be included and the actual interest rate to be charged from the MSMEs will be left to Factors.

The MSME sector accounts for around 45 percent of the manufacturing output and 40 percent in the country's total exports. The MSME sector also contributes 8 per cent to India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides jobs to 60 million people in different segments such as readymade garments, leather, gems and jewellery, light engineering and handicrafts.

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