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LSQ Provides Supply Chain Finance Solutions to Battery Recycler Ecobat

May 21, 2024
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Crédit Agricole CIB Launches Demica-Powered Supply Chain Finance Platform
Partnerships // February 29, 2024

Crédit Agricole CIB launched a new receivables and supply chain finance platform in the Asia-Pacific region. The bank’s new Optim Receivables and Supply Chain Finance platform is powered by Demica’s white-label, cloud-based platform that helps financial institutions and corporates offer working capital solutions, the companies said in a Tuesday...

Xalts Acquires Contour to Accelerate Digitization in Supply Chain Finance
Acquisitions // February 23, 2024

FinTech platform Xalts has acquired Contour Network from a consortium of global banks. The move is aimed at accelerating digitization in trade and supply chain finance, combining Xalts’ expertise in digital finance applications with Contour’s established network connecting global banks to businesses, Xalts said in...

Toward 2030: How Ecosystem Offerings Will Transform Trade Finance’s Future
B2B Payments // January 25, 2024

Across the typically staid area of trade finance, despite the importance of trade finance products and services to global trade growth and economic development, decades of paper-based processes, regulatory mismatches and monolithic financial infrastructures have historically stymied innovation. But we are almost at the second...

Twinco Capital and BBVA Spark Join Forces on Trade Finance
Investments // October 27, 2023

Supply chain FinTech company Twinco Capital has secured an additional 50 million euro ($53 million) facility with BBVA Spark, a banking unit for high-growth and innovative companies, to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging countries access trade finance. These SMBs are the companies most...

Interviews & Exclusives
Mastercard Helps Businesses Unlock Working Capital With New Supply Chain Finance Offering

October 21, 2021
In the ongoing drive to help businesses access new sources of capital, Mastercard has launched today (Oct. 21) a new B2B supply chain finance offering as part of its Track Business Payment Service. Mastercard’s Senior Vice President of Commercial and B2B Solutions David Trecker told Karen Webster that the program is not just about providing […]

J.P. Morgan: Why Working-Capital Trade Finance Is On The Rise

August 04, 2020
Although the 2008 financial crisis jolted the world economy, the financial conditions leading up to the disruption had been a long time coming. It’s perhaps the biggest economic difference between...

Citi On Supply Chain Finance In An Age Of (Global) Uncertainty

October 21, 2019
Trade wars. Tariffs. Brexit. Beyond the headlines and stock market gyrations, beyond the speeches from politicians and academics, lies the very real impact of geopolitics on supply chains: Trade corridors...

Quick Reads
LSQ Provides Supply Chain Finance Solutions to Battery Recycler Ecobat

May 21, 2024
Battery recycler Ecobat has tapped LSQ for supply chain finance solutions. This collaboration has enabled Ecobat to bolster supplier health and generate working capital, the companies said in a Tuesday (May 21) press release. “Our collaboration with LSQ has been instrumental in transforming our vendor relations and strengthening our financial position,” Carter Johnson, senior manager […]

Crédit Agricole CIB Launches Demica-Powered Supply Chain Finance Platform

February 29, 2024
Crédit Agricole CIB launched a new receivables and supply chain finance platform in the Asia-Pacific region. The bank’s new Optim Receivables and Supply Chain Finance platform is powered by Demica’s white-label, cloud-based platform that...

Xalts Acquires Contour to Accelerate Digitization in Supply Chain Finance

February 23, 2024
FinTech platform Xalts has acquired Contour Network from a consortium of global banks. The move is aimed at accelerating digitization in trade and supply chain finance, combining Xalts’ expertise in...

Twinco Capital and BBVA Spark Join Forces on Trade Finance

October 27, 2023
Supply chain FinTech company Twinco Capital has secured an additional 50 million euro ($53 million) facility with BBVA Spark, a banking unit for high-growth and innovative companies, to help small- to...