Conditions and methods of financing foreign business

Financing of foreign business in Serbia is most often realized in the following forms:

  1. financing through direct investments (founders’ investments, subordinated loans and credits, additional payments, etc.)
  2. foreign currency lending in the country
  3. taking loans and borrowings from abroad
  4. contracting factoring transactions.

Direct investments

By the Law on Foreign Currency Transactions (“Official Herald of the Republic of Serbia”, Nos. 62/2006, 31/2011, 119/2012, 139/2014 and 30/2018 – further: Law on Foreign Currency Transactions) capital investments were defined as transactions between residents and non-residents and the purpose of which is the transfer of capital. One of the capital investments regulated by the Law on Foreign Currency Transactions shall be direct investments. Continue reading Conditions and methods of financing foreign business

Factoring contract

Factoring shall be a financial service of buying and selling of existing non matured or future short-term monetary receivable, that arose from a contract of sale of goods or provision of services at home and abroad.

Participants in factoring shall be:

  • The assignor, who sells to the factor its receivable against the debtor that arose from a contract of sale of goods or provision of services, shall be a bank, a company or an entrepreneur based in the Republic of Serbia, and also those persons with headquarters abroad, registered in accordance with the local regulations
  • The factor, who buys receivables from the assignor, shall be:
    a bank, in terms of the law governing the operations of banks
    a company organized as a corporation or limited liability company, headquartered in the Republic of Serbia, which has the approval of the ministry responsible for finance affairs to perform factoring
    a foreign bank or a foreign company – exclusively in international factoring
  • The debtor shall be a bank, a company or an entrepreneur based in the Republic of Serbia, or such persons domiciled abroad, registered in accordance with the local regulation. Continue reading Factoring contract