Securitization is the process by which financial assets such as loan receivables, mortgage backed receivables, credit card balances, hire-purchase debtors, lease receivables, trade debtors, etc., and are transformed into securities.
These kind of assets such as loan assets, mortgages, credit card balances, hire-purchase debtors, trade debtors, etc., or defined rights therein, are transferred, fully or partly, by the owner (the Originator) to a Special Purpose Entity (SPE) in return for an immediate cash payment and/or other consideration.
A Factor is a financial institution which offers services relating to management and financing of debts arising from credit sales. The service provided by the factors is known as Factoring. It is a financial option for the management of receivables. To say in simple words, it is the conversion of credit sales into cash. In factoring, a financial institution (called factor) buys the accounts receivable of a company (Client) and pays upto 80 -85% of the amount immediately on agreement. Factoring company pays the remaining amount (Balance -finance cost-operating cost) to the client when the customer (Credit Party to whom the goods are sold by the client) pays the debt.
In Indian many companies are proving this kind of factoring service. To name some, Canbank Factors Limited, SBI Factors and Commercial Services Pvt. Ltd, Standard Chartered Bank etc.