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i THINK THESE KIND OF ACTIVITIES BY BANKS ARE VERY GOOD - BUT HOW DO WE/THE MARKET SCALE THIS PARTICIPATION.  THE INVESTMENTS ARE THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG AND IN MY EXPERIENCE THE ASSESSMENT ONCE INTRODUCED IS NOT ALWAYS AS PRO ACTIVE AS IT COULD BE. FROM TIME TIO TIME I (AND IM ASURE MANY OTHERS OF MY ILK) TOUCH INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES - WHAT IS THE CHANNEL TO ABN DIGITAL FUND AND OTHERS

SCF has to be the future. We are moving from 200 years of "doc credits" and "trade finance" to SCF, working capital and SME directed quantitative easing. With low cost technologies, cloud and service provision and cultural acceptance of online models - we can look to new risk aware competitively priced financing structures to sit alongside the core functions of physical supply chain, EDI, and settlement (payments).

This is an exciting development and has been on radar for some time. Quantitative easing has struggled to get to the SMEs and subject to management of risk with a suitable enabling (as opposed to overhead)regulatory framework,  harnessing new social and online channels is a paradigm shifting new model.