Last week the Congress of the Republic, approved amendments to the Law on Secured Transactions that has existed since 2007 to facilitate access to bank loans. With the modifications, any transaction that has the effect of guaranteeing an obligation of the debtor with the creditor is typified as a security interest.   

This means that even a company's own inventory can be used as collateral: its agricultural products, livestock, machinery, equipment, accounts receivable or technological innovations.

From a statement issued by Agexport:

Benefits for micro, small and medium enterprises (mipymes): 

1.  The most direct benefit is the extension to MSMEs of access to credit through the registration of their personal property or possessions.

2.  Quick access to credit by simplifying the procedures for setting up, modifying, extending, extinguishing and executing guarantees. 

3.  A much more efficient credit market is generated because it allows the ability to have a more strengthened register where more banks, financial or cooperative companies, for example, that can finance MSMEs, may interact.

Read full release (in Spanish).

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