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In my last post, Many Fintechs Still Rely on Bring-Your-Own-Bank Strategy for Supply Chain Finance, I discussed how source-to-pay platforms and other cloud software providers still rely on their clients’ house banks for supply chain finance and why that might not be the wisest strategy given the times.

Today, banks are by far the dominant player in providing supply chain finance, and do so in four ways

How factoring and supply chain finance differ from traditional invoice finance. And the real answer is it's very murky. There is certainly a blurring between invoice finance, invoice discounting, factoring, supply chain finance and asset-based lending.

Multi-enterprise platforms provide a way for a wide variety of industry sectors – from consumer goods, to retail, to auto parts, to manufacturers – to enable buyer-supplier ecosystems to digitise commerce.

Introduction

The connected commerce world is being driven by two primary players – corporations moving to the cloud for documents and data exchange around their source

There are few truisms left anymore especially in this era where trust is at a premium and everything appears to be a product of fake or fiat news.
But in terms of the risk, funding receivables based on seller’s data or funding receivables based on buyer’s data, there is truth and that truth is buyer data is more reliable.

Goal of the survey: Understand the current position and awareness of SCF, and implementation drivers & critical factors;

As general awareness about dynamic discounting and supply chain finance grows among practitioners, procurement groups are increasingly pushing their technology providers to offer early payment capabilities.

Whichever way you look at it and define it, supply chain finance has grown into a big number. And if you define it as using the balance sheet of a large company to offer early payment to some or all of its suppliers, it is has gained in popularity.