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Modifi scoops $15 million Series C

MODIFI, a leading global platform in B2B Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solutions, today announced the successful completion of a $15 million funding round led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund with participation from existing investors Maersk, Neva (Intesa Sanpaolo), Heliad and other top-tier global investors.

Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024 Winners: Established Category

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Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024 Winners: Established Category

Richard Peers, Contributing Editor, Finextra and Founder of Responsible Risk, connects with Rochelle Mountany, CEO, and Dicky Thomas, Operations Manager at Afri, to discuss the company’s 26-year journey and their win in the Established Category for the Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024. After choosing the Challenge of enhancing nature through sustainable agriculture with large language models and geospatial data, this hackathon team created AfriGIS Ecohub that built upon Afri’s specialisation in data science to provide data driven insights to three groups – small holders, commercial farmers and financial institutions. By connecting these stakeholders with a single supply chain platform, real-time data driven insights can be leveraged to build upon opportunities to grow.

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: The role of ESG data in the nature capital marketplace

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Sustainable Finance Live 2024: The role of ESG data in the nature capital marketplace

Founder of ResponsibleRisk, Richard Peers, moderated a session at Sustainable Finance Live called ‘What is the role of impact and ESG data in ensuring economic profit of nature capital in the marketplace?’, with speakers Cain Blythe, founder of Ecosulis and Credit Nature; Simon Crichton, head of nature, food, and resource at Triodos Bank; Giles D'Souza strategic business lead in remote sensing and GIS at Planet; James Lockhart-Smith, VP sustainable finance at Verisk Maplecroft; and Donna Lyndsay, strategic market lead environment and sustainability at Ordnance Survey.

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: How can natural capital be assessed and why does it need to be?

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Sustainable Finance Live 2024: How can natural capital be assessed and why does it need to be?

Kicking off Sustainable Finance Live 2024 at Events@No6 in London, Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor at Finextra opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event, to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.

Ghana pilots blockchain-based credentials and CBDC for global trade

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Ghana pilots blockchain-based credentials and CBDC for global trade

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has completed a proof-of-concept into the use of digital credentials for international trade and CBDC-based cross-border payments.

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Finastra integrates supply chain platform with CredAble

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, today announced its partnership with CredAble, a working capital finance platform, to expand the functionality of Finastra Trade Innovation.

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Citi Ventures invests in Endor Labs

Endor Labs, a leader in software supply chain security, announced a strategic investment from Citi Ventures.

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BIS aims to the complexities of global value chains with prroject Insight

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is launching Project Insight to explore how to better monitor developments in global value chains (GVCs) by combining structured and unstructured granular data and applying big data analytics tools.

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TASConnect acquires Solv Malaysia and Solv Vietnam

TASConnect, a SaaS supply chain fintech platform, has acquired the Malaysian subsidiary of SOLV, a business-to-business online marketplace for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and is in the process of acquiring the subsidiary in Vietnam.

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Asian Development Bank and Citi team on supply chain finance

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Citi have partnered to sign a master risk participation agreement to enhance access to supply chain financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and support more than $100 million in additional annual trade across Asia and the Pacific.

Ripple enters supply chain finance venture with SBI Group and HashKey DX

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Ripple enters supply chain finance venture with SBI Group and HashKey DX

Ripple is joining forces with SBI Group and HashKey DX to bring XRPL-powered supply chain finance to Japan.

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Liquidnet recruits Morgan Stanley trading exec

Alex Grinfeld, an 11-year veteran and Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, has joined a noteworthy roster of senior futures sales-traders and analysts to have arrived at Liquidnet since 2022 as the technology-focused agency execution specialist, known for its dark pools, builds out its global listed derivatives offering.

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Vayana TradeXChange and Arqit collaborate on trade finance

Arqit Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQQ, ARQQW) (Arqit), and Vayana TradeXchange have announced a partnership to use Arqit’s TradeSecure™ digital negotiable instrument technology to transform international supply chains.

Visa and Taulia/SAP form embedded finance partnership

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Visa and Taulia/SAP form embedded finance partnership

Visa has teamed up with SAP-owned supply chain finance outfit Taulia to make embedded finance accessible to businesses worldwide.

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Supply chain technology provider Finboot wins fresh funding

Today Finboot is announcing the completion of the first close of its latest funding round to accelerate the next phase of its growth strategy – with a particular focus on enabling companies and their net-zero transition through technology.

SC Ventures launches supply chain financing marketplace for Ghanaian MSMEs

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SC Ventures launches supply chain financing marketplace for Ghanaian MSMEs

Standard Chartered's innovation and investment arm SC Ventures is launching a B2B online marketplace offering small firms in Ghana access to financing options.

Xalts to acquire Contour Network to build 'Plaid for Trade'

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Xalts to acquire Contour Network to build 'Plaid for Trade'

Accel and Citi Ventures-backed fintech Xalts has acquired Contour Network from a consortium of global banks, with the aim of to building a 'Plaid for Trade' supply chain network.

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Mastercard collaborates with BaaS platform 4t Wave

Mastercard has partnered with 4thWave, an innovative finance and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) digital platform provider, to streamline business-to-business (B2B) payment flows.

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France-based Tesselate and India's Impactsure forge corporate banking partnership

France-based Tesselate and India’s Impactsure have announced a pivotal strategic partnership set to reshape the landscape of data-driven decision-making in Corporate Banking, Trade and Supply Chain Finance.

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Cloudsmith bags $11 million funding round

The slowdown in venture capital-led tech sector investment hasn’t proven to be a setback for Cloudsmith, a Belfast-headquartered software supply chain management firm, which has today, announced $11 million (£8.8 million) in Series A2 financing.

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