Non-bank Loans in Business Financing in Poland

Abstract

Many businesses experience difficullties in access to capital needed to finance their activities. That is particularly true of enterprises with sometimes adverse credit history, unable to properly secure the loan, two aspects of crucial importance to get capital from traditional sources. Such enterprises usually use their own resources to finance their business which, however, are not always sufficient. This is why entrepreneurs, often driven by the wish to maintain liquidity, are forced to turn to the alternative lending market. One of the forms of such financing is a non-bank loan, much easier to get due to the absence of burdensome formalities and detailed examination of creditworthiness. The paper attempts to identify reasons why, despite an extremely rich credit offer of banks, entrepreneurs are increasingly more interested in the services of lending institutions.