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News/wholesale
SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s fintech investment and ventures arm, has launched Trade and Supply Chain Connect (TASConnect), a bank agnostic supply chain finance platform based out of Singapore.
15 February 2022
Company update/sustainable
UK retailers have cancelled £7.1bn in contracts across the last 12 months with suppliers that don’t meet stringent ethical and sustainable standards, new research¹ reveals.
10 February 2022
Company update/startups
Finverity, the mid-market supply chain finance platform focused on emerging markets, today announces the completion of a USD 2m Pre-Series A equity funding round.
03 February 2022
News/crime
Discussing Q4 earnings with analysts, PayPal CFO John Rainey disclosed that 4.5 million accounts had been shut down after “bad actors” took advantage of incentives and rewards programmes, resulting in shares falling by 25%, according to Bloomberg.
Commerzbank claims that international trade and supply chains have reached a technological inflection point, with emerging technologies in Big data, blockchain, Internet of Things and artifical intelligence set to overturn long-established practices.
Company update/wholesale
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced its intent to acquire a majority stake of Taulia, a leading provider of working capital management solutions.
27 January 2022
Tenacious Ventures has backed agtech-fintech startup Geora in a $1.5 million seed round to transform supply chain economics for Aussie farmers.
20 January 2022
Mumbai, December 20, 2021 – Bizongo announced its latest fundraise of $110 million in Series D round led by New York-based Tiger Global Management.
20 December 2021
Research/Supply chain finance
20 December 2021 79 downloads
Finextra TV/sustainable
Guillaume Levannier, Sustainable Investment Officer at SCOR Investment Partners, speaks on FinextraTV to explain how we can identify the correct and material KPIs to assess the extra financial value within the value chain, and how collaborating in the SustainableFinance.Live workshops helps him to improve SCOR Investment Partners’ data aggregation and harmonization approach.
17 December 2021
Tradeshift has secured more than $200m in funding and debt from a combination of existing and new investors, including Koch Industries, one of the largest privately held companies in the US.
09 December 2021
News/sustainable
Sustainable Finance Live is back for another virtual event. Finextra and Responsible Risk have come together for a thought-provoking series of experiential events, welcoming banking and technology ecosystems to collaborate on enabling a wave of change.
01 December 2021
Company update/payments
One of Asia’s foremost supply chain finance technology solution providers, Linklogis proudly announces the establishment of its branch office in Singapore.
25 November 2021
On day two of COP26’s ‘World Leader’s Summit’, Finextra attended European finance consultancy Oxera’s ‘Economics of Climate Change’ session, which brought to life the role that both investors and greentech startups can play in delivering decarbonisation.
03 November 2021
Triodos Bank has just announced its aim to reach net zero by 2035.
02 November 2021
For the first time, finance is a key COP theme – reflecting the vital role the industry will play in transitioning the economy to net zero. As a physical attendee of COP26, Finextra listened in to the first of the Green Finance Institute’s ‘Green Horizon Summit’ wake-up shows, which – in collaboration with the City of London Corporation – run every morning throughout the conference.
Citi has launched its first Sustainability-linked Supply Chain Finance (SSCF) program in Asia Pacific with the aim of supporting clients as they advance their ESG priorities, improve the resilience of their supply chains and manage their working capital needs.
01 November 2021
Company update/security
British cyber security company Risk Ledger has today raised £2.1 million in seed funding.
28 October 2021
News/payments
Mastercard is to embed working capital into its Track Business Payments package through a partnership with supply chain finance specialist Demica.
21 October 2021
PrimeRevenue, Inc., the leading provider of technology-enabled B2B payments and working capital solutions, announces its newest innovation: The PrimeRevenue SurePay platform.
19 October 2021
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