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Factor
1. A financial intermediary that purchases receivables from companies.

2. In terms of mortgages, the ratio of principal outstanding to the original balance.

Notes:
1. The sale of accounts receivables is called factoring.

Factor
A financial institution that buys a firm's accounts receivable and collects the accounts.
factor
A firm that purchases accounts receivable from another firm at a discount. The purchasing firm then attempts to collect the receivables.
factor
To sell accounts receivable to another party at a discount from face value. Thus, a firm in need of cash to pay down short-term debt may decide to factor its accounts receivable to another firm.
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One of the company's manufacturing plants in Thousand Oaks also received Food and Drug Administration approval to produce Factor VIII, Baxter's flagship hemophilia product.
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Periodic blood tests over the next year revealed that all three patients in the high-dose group and one in the low-dose group sometimes had factor VIII concentrations that the researchers interpreted as higher than those shown at the start of the study.
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There, Hyland Immuno makes its recombinant Factor VIII, a genetically engineered drug that treats people with the most common from of hemophilias and is one of the company's best sellers, generating $500 million in sales last year.
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