The Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented levels of government support for businesses and enabled companies to get through lockdown after lockdown. However, it proved a tight time for trade financing companies, who may have found themselves somewhat redundant. But now that the unprecedented subsidies have come to an end, companies are facing shorter runways and experiencing greater pressures on liquidity. And this has increased, once again, the relevancy of invoice financing companies, which can provide SMEs with that bridge from one week to the next. It’s a trend illuminated by Accelerated Payments, an Irish tech-savvy invoice financing firm which is expected…

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