OREANDA-NEWS. January 14, 2013. RusRating has assigned a credit rating to Life Factoring Company (Moscow). The rating is “BBB” on the national scale and “BB” on the international scale, in both cases with a stable outlook.

According to the agency, the rating is based on strong support from the Company’s parent bank, healthy earnings performance, and a highly-diversified factoring portfolio of good quality.

Constraining factors include relatively modest capital adequacy, external obligations heavily concentrated by individual creditor and a small market share in large-scale factoring contracts.

Life Factoring Company (LLC ) was set up in 2007 and its primary business is financing small and mid-sized enterprises. Growth has focused on this market segment and made the Company a market leader, with more new clients reported than any other Russian factoring company. Life Factoring works with state-owned SME Bank (the former Russian Development Bank) under federal SME support programmes. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ProbusinessBank and that bank’s senior managers are its ultimate beneficiary owners.