Supply chain finance

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Sustainable Finance Live: Is sustainable finance sustainable?

Sustainable Finance Live kicked off Tuesday morning in a hybrid format, in-person and online, where leaders discussed the problem statements and solutions that are defining the sustainable finance industry today.

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Sustainable Finance Live sneak peek: ESG risks - how can we build in sustainability?

Finextra spoke to Adam Webb, COO, Risk at ICBC Standard Bank, ahead of Sustainable Finance Live about his experience in risk management and mitigating climate risk.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2022 attendee registration now open

Registration for Sustainable Finance Live, Finextra's programme of content, workshops and experiments, designed to create actionable ESG strategies, is now open.

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US Bank and LiquidX bid to simplify supply-chain financing

US Bank has teamed up with trade-finance fintech LiquidX to help speed up and simplify supply-chain transactions between suppliers and buyers.

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Citi invests in SME finance platform Crowdz

Citi has led a $10 million funding round for Crowdz as part of a wider collaboration with the SME finance platform to develop SaaS receivables as an asset class.

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SC Ventures rolls out supply chain finance platform

SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s fintech investment and ventures arm, has launched Trade and Supply Chain Connect (TASConnect), a bank agnostic supply chain finance platform based out of Singapore.

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PayPal reveals 4.5 million accounts were ‘illegitimate’, shares plummet

Discussing Q4 earnings with analysts, PayPal CFO John Rainey disclosed that 4.5 million accounts had been shut down after “bad actors” took advantage of incentives and rewards programmes, resulting in shares falling by 25%, according to Bloomberg.

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Big Data, DLT, IoT and AI set to transform trade supply chains - Commerzbank

Commerzbank claims that international trade and supply chains have reached a technological inflection point, with emerging technologies in Big data, blockchain, Internet of Things and artifical intelligence set to overturn long-established practices.

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Sustainable Finance Live: The state of the supply chain

Sustainable Finance Live is back for another virtual event. Finextra and Responsible Risk have come together for a thought-provoking series of experiential events, welcoming banking and technology ecosystems to collaborate on enabling a wave of change.

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COP26: The role of investors and greentech startups in delivering decarbonisation

On day two of COP26’s ‘World Leader’s Summit’, Finextra attended European finance consultancy Oxera’s ‘Economics of Climate Change’ session, which brought to life the role that both investors and greentech startups can play in delivering decarbonisation.

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COP26: Triodos targets net zero by 2035 – and encourages peers to follow suit

Triodos Bank has just announced its aim to reach net zero by 2035.

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COP26: How can data, technology, and the private sector fight climate change?

For the first time, finance is a key COP theme – reflecting the vital role the industry will play in transitioning the economy to net zero. As a physical attendee of COP26, Finextra listened in to the first of the Green Finance Institute’s ‘Green Horizon Summit’ wake-up shows, which – in collaboration with the City of London Corporation – run every morning throughout the conference.

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Mastercard unlocks working capital with Demica

Mastercard is to embed working capital into its Track Business Payments package through a partnership with supply chain finance specialist Demica.

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Standard Chartered taps Demica for new supplier finance portal

Standard Chartered is to ease enrollments to its supplier finance programme through an online platform delivered by Demica.

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Standard Chartered and Linklogis team on trade finance platform

Standard Chartered and Chinese blockchain-enabled supply chain financing platform Linklogis have formed a joint venture to build a trade finance origination and distribution platform.

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UK to restructure data policy and underpin innovation post-Brexit

Oliver Dowden, the UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has announced that new ‘data adequacy’ partnerships will be struck with the likes of the US, Australia, and the Republic of Korea.

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UOB adopts risk management framework Equator Principles

Leading bank in Asia, United Overseas Bank (UOB), has today announced it has been approved to join the Equator Principles Association, and has adopted the Equator Principles (EPs).

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BBVA taps into Ant's Trusple blockchain platform

BBVA has inked a deal to integrate cross-border payment and financing services in Ant Group's blockchain platform for global trade, Trusple.

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Former Mollie and Klarna execs build BNPL platform for B2B purchasing

Former Mollie and Klarna senior managers have developed Biller, an AI powered buy now, pay later service for B2B purchasing.

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Stemly spins out from ING Labs in Singapore

Stemly, a supply chain inventory manage and finance startup incubated by ING Labs in Singapore, has been spun out as an independent venture.