Room for Manoeuvre - Optimising Working Capital with Receivables Finance

Solar roofing company PetersenDean describe how they successfully utilised supply chain finance to address a significant working capital shortfall.

Treasury and supply chain disruption caused by external factors is nothing new, but recent developments may be making it the new normal. Therefore, the ability to switch technology and supply chains to new locations/suppliers with the minimum of upheaval is becoming a business imperative. This applies not just to the physical supply chain but also the financial one that underpins it, which presents corporate treasuries with significant additional challenges.

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.

Eleanor Hill, Editor, investigates whether dynamic discounting deserves to be called a win-win solution by vendors, and finds out what the solution really has to offer treasurers in 2018.

Working capital conversations between banks and corporates have typically focused on individual bank products, rather than the specific needs and challenges of the corporate – leaving opportunities and efficiencies on the table. But that’s all changing now, as Adeline de Metz, UniCredit, explains.