Waking the Sleeping Giant? The Potential for Trade Finance Transformation

Bruce and Jonathon discuss progress toward truly holistic working capital management and whether treasury teams should be harnessing today’s most advanced information technologies.

Polytrade, a global supplier of raw materials, additives and marketing services, has gained considerable advantages by using the bank payment obligation (BPO) to settle its import business.

In an increasingly competitive supply chain finance ecosystem – consisting of banks, non-banks, and a combination of the two – how best can corporate treasurers select an effective payables finance programme provider? Deutsche Bank suggest three simple questions that corporates can ask.

With solutions such as we.trade revolutionising supply-chain interactions, while others, such as Project Wilson, connect correspondent banks to facilitate working capital financing, Simone Del Guerra of UniCredit discusses the shifting landscape of correspondent banking.

For supply chain finance (SCF) to progress and reach the next set of struggling suppliers, the model needs a rethink. Time for SCF 2.0?