Atradius Payment Practices Barometer

• Stephen Uwins
• 12th July 2013

Credit Insurance underwriter Atradius has released their latest Payment Practices Barometer for Western Europe. 



GB Core results




•     An average of 30% of the total value of domestic and export invoices are overdue

•     Insufficient availability of funds is the main reason for payment delays from domestic (47.9% of respondents) and foreign B2B customers (39.5%)

•     4.8% and 5% of the total value of domestic and foreign B2B invoices respectively went uncollected

•     For 33% of British respondents, maintaining adequate cash flow is the biggest challenge to business profitability this year (versus Western European average of 27.8%)




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