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Bad payers noted by a collection specialist start-up

2021-03-09T19:02:05.008Z


At the end of 2020, late payments represented a shortfall of 19 billion euros, against 7 billion in 2019.


With 30% of French companies not paying their invoices on time, according to the DGCCRF's annual report, published at the end of February, the situation is worrying.

Especially since this bad practice has been accentuated with the crisis.

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At the end of 2020, late payments represented a shortfall of 19 billion euros, against 7 billion in 2019. Before the pandemic, they were already at the origin of one in four bankruptcies.

If the Banque de France intends to take into account breaches of payment deadlines in its annual listing of companies, debt collection firms and other legal techs are also agitating on the subject.

The start-up Rubypayeur has just launched a rating for payment terms.

On its site, accessible free of charge within the limit of five downloads per day and per Internet user, companies can check the practices of their commercial partners to guard against the risk of unpaid debts.

Many financial analysis services already make it possible to know the level of solvency of a company, "

but we deal daily with perfectly solvent companies which do not respect the payment deadlines

", notes Alexandre Bardin, director of Rubypayeur. .

Its service provides a score ranging from 0 to 100. This is recalculated every month and changes in real time in the event of a major event.

Bruno Le Maire had already declared himself in favor of such a scoring principle last October, considering that it represents "

an objective and transparent criterion

".

Source: lefigaro

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