Receivables Market

Existing Legislation

  • Law 357/2005 concerned with Commodity exchanges which allows the administering of organised markets, of which Receivables also.
  • The Fiscal Code allows the possibility of expenditure deduction through the trade of commerical receivables through commodity exchanges
  • RCE rules for Receivable trading

Premise for trading commercial receivables through RCE

  • A percentage of 20% of the GDP (56 billion lei, according to estimates for the year 2005) is blocked by old receivables which commercial organisations owe to the state or to other commercial organisations.
  • Commercial receivables count for approximately two thirds of this debt, close to 37 billion Lei (the equivalent of 10 billion Euros)

Benefits of trading through RCE

 

  • From a macroeconomic level
    • it represents an instrument of the market economy, not an administrative order measure;
    • clearing of blocked sums between economic operators.
  • From a microeconomic level
    • Monetizing and transforming receivables considered losses;
    • Fiscal deductability of expenditure registered due to commercial receivables;
    • Unloading of balance related to unpaid invoices;
    • Improvement of financial indicators.

Receivable market participants

Initiators (shareholders, affiliated members,RCE customers) and bidders (natural or legal persons which register opposite orders to those launched by the initiator) found in one of the following situations:

  • Economic operators interested in capitalizing on receivables from clients, partners, collaborators or beneficiaries (e.g. credit institutions, utility suppliers, telecommunication operators)
  • Organisations specialised in collecting and recovering receivables;
  • Economic operators or people whom already have a debt towards the receivable debtor offered towards sale (in the perspective of compensation)

Transaction stages for SELLERS

  • Presenting the sale offer to the initiator:
  • Verification and publication of the initiators offer;
  • Verification, presentation and registration of the opposite order to the sellers offer
  • Trading session completion
  • Contract signing

Transaction stages for the BUYER

  • Presenting the sale offer to the initiator:
  • Verification and publication of the initiators offer;
  • Verification, presentation and registration of the opposite order to the buyers offer
  • Trading session completion
  • Contract signing

Advantages of a Receivable SELLER

  • Promoting the selling procedure of a receivable
  • The posibility of selling a receivable portfolio
  • Fiscal deductability

Advantages of a receivable BUYER

  • Finalising debts towards creditors
  • Paying a lower price than the nominal value of a receivable
  • A guarantee that the respective receivable will not increase in value

Characteristics of trading with RCE- HOW does it work?   

When trading receivables :

  • Dutch auction (when the seller is the initiator) the offering decreases
  • Live auction (when the buyer is the initiator) the offering increases

Characteristics of trading with RCE- WHAT is traded? 

  • Transactions concerned with receivables’ cession have as an objective liquid and chargeable receivables, inclusive of VAT and consisten with the accepted invoice
  • Transactions concerned with the cession of a receivable can take place for a part of the receivable as well as the receivable portfolio.
  • Currently through RCE you DO NOT trade guarantee receivables, budgetary receivables and receivables representing sums to be reimbursed/reimbursed to the budget

What does RCE offer?

  • Transparency and efficiency of trading procedures;
  • Equal treatment and market participant protection
  • Advertising the supply and demand