Supply chain finance

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Global Supply Chain Finance Forum issues payables finance guidance

The Global Supply Chain Finance Forum (GSCFF) – an initiative comprising the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Finance for Development Banking Commission, BAFT (Bankers Association for Finance and Trade), the Euro Banking Association (EBA), Factors Chain International (FCI) and the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) – has released a new guidance document on payables finance, to aid financial institutions, accounting firms, rating agencies and regulators in gaining clarity and consistency on the various terms and techniques.

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Deutsche Bank delivers China supply chain financing for BASF

Deutsche Bank today announced that it has established a supply chain financing solution for BASF China, supporting the company and its suppliers in China with world-class working capital capabilities.

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Lloyds Bank partners Demica to roll out supply chain finance platform

Lloyds Bank has teamed with UK fintech Demica to roll out a digital supply chain finance platform for business customers.

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BBVA digitises the supply chain

BBVA has created a new supply chain finance solution to compete and lead the business in Latin America, the U.S. and Europe.

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Mastercard and GrainChain collaborate to record the commodity supply chain

Today, Mastercard announced a collaboration with GrainChain, a technology company that enables supply chain visibility, empowering suppliers and farmers while reducing risks to buyers and banks in the United States, Mexico and Central America.

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Coutts MD: Sustainability is about ‘unpeeling’ investment decision making

Mohammad Kamal Syed, managing director and head of investment management at Coutts & Co, tells Finextra Research of the ‘root and branch uplift’ in the firm’s investment decision making to address ESG goals.

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Mphasis to put supply chain portfolio on R3 Corda

Mphasis, an Information Technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today announced its partnership with R3, a leading global enterprise software firm, to jointly create innovative blockchain-enabled payment solutions and take them to market.

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Veon acquires stake in Bangladesh’s B2B commerce platform, ShopUp

VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), through VEON Ventures, has joined Sequoia Capital India and Flourish Ventures as investors in ShopUp, Bangladesh’s leading full-stack B2B commerce platform for small businesses, becoming ShopUp’s first strategic corporate investor.

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HPD LendScape partners with Emirates Development Bank on national supply chain finance platform

HPD LendScape, a leading international secured lending platform vendor, today announces it has partnered with Emirates Development Bank (EDB) to launch UAE’s National Supply Chain Finance (SCF) platform, giving UAE businesses improved access to working capital, particularly as they cope with the added pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sibos 2020: Defining sustainable finance and ESG, beyond climate action and the environment

As wildfires, hurricanes, social and economic unrest and the pandemic play out across the global stage, the final of day of Sibos 2020 focuses on banking for humanity, the impact of ESG and the triple bottom line as a driver for sustainable business.

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Emirates NBD launches digital Supply Chain Financing platform

As part of its ongoing digitisation strategy, Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the MENAT (Middle East, North and Turkey) region has launched a digital Supply Chain Financing platform for its corporate and institutional clientele.

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Christophe Bodin joins Tradeshift as chief revenue officer

Tradeshift, the leader in supply chain payments and marketplaces, today announces that Christophe Bodin has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

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2010 revisited: Looking beyond the traditional negotiated financial crisis

As Sibos 2020 approaches, we look back to some of the predictions and forecasts made in 2010 and pick through what other lessons can be learnt from the post-financial crisis world to inform strategy in the not dissimilar economic environment of today.

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Mastercard and Asian Development Bank build multi-stakeholder alliance for Asian supply chains

Mastercard and its partners N-Frnds, SGeBIZ and Finastra have formed an alliance with the support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to create technology solutions to drive greater digital efficiency across the retail supply chain in Asia and increase wholesalers’ access to credit.

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FactSet to provide European Commission with global supply chain data

FactSet (NYSE:FDS) (NASDAQ:FDS), a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications, and industry-leading service, announced that it has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to deliver comprehensive and up-to-date data on global supply chains.

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UN Secretary-General: Digital finance is the optimal channel to deliver long-term financing of SDGs

The UN Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Finance has today launched an Action Agenda that justifies how harnessing digitalisation can empower citizens to be in control of their finances. This will in turn ultimately align with the needs collectively manifested in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Industry forum insists misuse of supply chain finance not widespread

Amid growing criticisms surrounding the misuse of supply chain finance, an industry forum has put out a paper conceding that the issue is "worrying" but insisting that it is not widespread.

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DBS automates procure-to-pay for construction industry

DBS today introduced Singapore’s first automated supplier procure-to-pay solution for the construction sector, developed by Singaporean fintech Doxa.

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DBS partners Infor to integrate digital trade financing into global supply chains

Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, has announced that it is partnering with DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, to integrate digital trade financing capabilities into the Infor Nexus global network of more than 68,000 businesses.

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Coordinating ESG solution ideation for investment and asset management

In June 2020, Finextra Research welcomed industry experts to Sustainable Finance Live, the first virtual interactive workshop to discuss how financial services firms and technology companies can achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.