Talk:Forfaiting

Incorrect Statement about "Factoring"
I'm not sure where you get the idea that there is any requirement that a buyer of financial assets (in this case "Receivables") must acquire all of the said category of financial assets ("Receivables" in "Factoring") in order to acquire any portion of the financial assets in a "Free Market" purchasing arrangement such as a "Factoring" transaction. Please see the Receivable Factoring article in Wiki for both the correct discussion and the appropriate references/independent cites that indicate and verify the actual technical aspects of the Factoring transactions arrangements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgmwki (talk • contribs) 06:57, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Actual usage of this term
Just came across this term while looking at forfeit. "Forfaiting" seems to have no actual usage - even in articles which are discussing factoring receivables where one would expect it to be present.

The Internet presence of the word seems to be only from many financial term glossaries that are merely cutting and pasting from each other. I am guessing this is a term from the 18th or 19th century that's just been copied from older sources to arrive here in Wikipedia. patsw (talk) 12:07, 9 June 2017 (UTC)


 * The use of the word forfaiting by the organisations referred to in the professional associations section of the article is testimony to the actual use of the word. - BobKilcoyne (talk) 05:49, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * At the same time, the word does not seem to appear in (real) dictionaries (tried SOED, Merriam-Webster Collegiate). There is a link to Wiktionary, but that entry does not include an "English" headword, only French, Italian and Spanish, and the first definition given is "crime, infamy". Would help to have an explanation of the supposed etymology: is it just a respelling of "forfeit"? How is it pronounced (if it is ever pronounced by someone with an hourly income low enough to tell us)? Imaginatorium (talk) 03:08, 10 September 2018 (UTC)