We are pleased to advise that Debtsource is relocating to larger business premises.  Our last day of operations at our current location will be 31 May 2018.  Our present numbers remain the same, 011 348 7000, and you can continue to email us at info@debtsource.co.za. We will be moving on Friday, 1st of June, on which date our offices will be closed.  Your Customer Relationship Manager will however be available to offer any assistance you may need on this day, and all our online systems are unaffected. We expect some operational delays in compiling credit information reports over the period, but have implemented measures to minimise the impact. We thank you […]

To assess; insure; finance and manage your trade credit risk has been the Debtsource vision since our inception in 2003. This vision has now been made a reality through a collaboration with Alternative Finance Solutions (AFS) concluded earlier this year and now ready for launch. AFS specialises in debtor invoice discounting solutions and was born out of the very successful private equity firm – Preference Capital (Pty) Limited, a member of the Stonewood Capital Group. The significant advantage for Debtsource clients is the ability to assess their initial credit risk through detailed research, and then to couple approved debtors with the AFS invoice discounting solution. This solution simply means that […]

Starting or running a small new business can be an exciting yet daunting prospect, and there are many hurdles which owners must overcome to ensure that their business survives for the long-term. Primary among the business survivalist toolkit is a healthy cashflow. The saying goes “turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash flow is reality.” Without being able to pay staff and suppliers on time, your business will not survive very long. At the core of a healthy cash-flow lies the function of credit management. It sounds quite simple if you think about at it first – you just need to make sure that clients pay their bills on […]

So, you thought you were you? You aren’t. You’re him. And her. And the guy who bought that new Xbox you never used.   Towards the end of 2017, Troy Hunter, well-known security researcher and the creator of Have I Been Pwned, discovered that the personal details of more than 75 million South Africans had been leaked to the internet. This massive database came from the web server of a company called Jigsaw Holdings, and within it lay the ID numbers, contact details, addresses, and income estimates of every single one of these 75 million people. He found the identity thief’s equivalent of an oasis in the desert. Here lay […]