Financial Supply Chain

In the world of international trade, the process of exchanging payments, information and documents between buyers, sellers, banks, and other involved parties is becoming increasingly important for financial institutions. This community aims at presenting views and innovative ideas related to this financial supply chain space.

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Invoice Financing 101: What is Invoice and Receivables Financing?

It’s undeniable that the pandemic has been especially hard on small to medium enterprises, or SMEs. While multinational corporations like Amazon and Tesla have grown astronomically over the pandemic, small disruptions, like late payments on invoices which are typically survivable in normal times, are causing many SMEs to go out of business. Althou...

31 May 2021 /sustainable /inclusion

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Innovative commercial finance underwriting can profitably ignite economic recovery

The current economic slump creates a trade finance paradox: Banks do not grant new credit limits, tight be regulatory constraints. Credit insurers face deep losses on traditional credit insurance schemes. Credit reinsurers have substantial reinsurance capacity available but cannot place it. The result: major losses for all parties. Heading towar...

15 July 2020 /wholesale /covid-19

Ron Delnevo Chair at UK Cash Supply Alliance

US coin shortage a DISASTER for cash!

Cock up - or a conspiracy? Whichever it is, this shortage of coins is a disaster for cash. Many retailers are looking for excuses to limit cash use and this shortage is a gift to them as they pursue their “cashless” ambitions. Cash is an essential item on the Payment Choice menu. The right to use cash is even more fundamental to US democracy than t...

04 July 2020 /payments /inclusion

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Cash in the time of Covid: why we need to listen to the experts to protect this vital payment method

Covid-19 has had a huge impact on almost every area of our lives: from travel to shopping, the economy to health services. Understandably, these are emotive issues – things that we previously may have taken for granted are now being put under enormous pressure at a time when people are very anxious. Amid the uncertainty, there is a danger that som...

06 April 2020 /inclusion /covid-19

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Timely Information is key for Supply Chain Finance

Given today’s technology and the increasing speed of payments why is there $2 trillion in financeable secure payables locked in the supply chain? McKinsey believes this could be worth potentially $20 billion revenue pool. One of the key answers is timely and comprehensive information arriving at the right time and for the right hands. Banks and su...

04 March 2019

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Cash use prior to the 23rd century

Natalie Ceeney’s recently published UK Access to Cash review asks us to consider the implications of a society where physical cash doesn’t exist. It got me thinking of a video clip I used to open a recent conference presentation. It’s a scene from one of the more forgettable Star Trek movies. Captain Jean Luc Picard is chatting to his current roman...

20 December 2018 /payments /inclusion

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Blockchain in The Supply Chain Use Cases: Inventory Finance

The analysis of use cases proposed by Community NdT participants continues. Inventory Finance (proposed by a winery). The use case leverages the characteristics of blockchain data traceability and uniqueness to access funding for the purchase and growth of vineyards and the transformation of wine products. Currently the winery advances the cash nee...

11 February 2018

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Carillion: further detail on recommendations to unsecured creditors. Please share if you know any

Since my earlier blog it has come out that the liquidator is indeed “dealing in” Carillion’s contracts and this is very important for the unsecured creditors who have supplied and remained unpaid in those contracts. The key point is that the liquidator has not repudiated the contracts, and declared them null and void, which was within their gift. T...

24 January 2018 /payments /wholesale

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Carillion: who is protecting the Trade and other Unsecured Creditors?

The collapse of Carillion poses an urgent question for participants in Supply Chains who have no payment security, and have made deliveries of goods and services with a credit period. That means almost every business. The question is whether the shareholders will really experience “moral hazard”: do they only make a recovery from the liquidation on...

19 January 2018 /payments /regulation

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

New Credit Scoring Models Ahead

Banks will profile corporate credit risk blending financial indicators with supply chain performance metrics. This point represents the hinge that will connect corporate supply chain process data with innovative credit risk models for banks: Banks will capture and analyze events in the physical supply chain to generate a more profound and realistic...

21 December 2017 /wholesale