The very mention of the term “bank loan” to a business owner is often enough to elicit a very strong and visceral response and the simple truth of the matter is that the average business bank loan is a fairly contentious and controversial subject within the business community. On one hand, a bank loan will provide the business owner with a source of capital that they otherwise would not have, which in turn can mean that bold ambitions of expanding and developing the business in a particular direction can be more fully achieved and accomplished with a minimum of disruption.This is especially significant in highly competitive sectors of the market, as any measure of delay can ultimately result a business that chose to postpone any sort of development or alterations to the manner in which they do business being overtaken by a rival. The downside here however, is that the loan will be required to be paid back and so if the business is struggling to generate enough revenue, or worse yet, is already in debt, then the repayment maybe too much of a burden for its finances.Furthermore, in order to actually gain access to a bank loan, a business will typically be required to secure assets that it owns as collateral, and so a noncompliance with the terms of the loan will ultimately mean that the assets secured as collateral maybe seized by the lender.Thankfully, there is an alternative strategy for the struggling business owner who is looking to secure another external source of capital finance to provide their company with a much needed kick start: a receivable financing company.A receivable financing company, or a factoring agency as they oftentimes referred to within business parlance, is a business entity that will purchase outstanding invoice accounts from a company and then provide the client company with a sum of money upon receipt of the invoices. The receivable financing company will then assume full, legal responsibility for the collection process of the money owed by the client specified on the invoice.Once the client has paid the full balance owed to the receivable financing company, the factoring agency will then release the remainder of the funds owed to the client company….with a small deduction made from the funds received from the client in order to cover the expenses that they have incurred.One of the major benefits of using a factoring agency is that the client company will be guaranteed to receive a fairly large amount of money in a very short space of time indeed which effectively eliminates and protects against the risks that an unpredictable and capricious degree of cash flow will pose to a client company.Furthermore, this method of business financing will effectively mean that the agency is responsible for the collection process thereby freeing up the time and money of the client company who will not have to contend with the chasing up of fees or commissions owed.