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Today, banks are by far the dominant player in providing supply chain finance, and do so in four ways. And many Fintechs that offer source-to-pay (S2P) and other supply chain collaboration solutions still have a strategy of using their clients’ house banks for supply chain finance. While it makes things easy if the customer can bring their own bank, it does not come without risk.

I love when the so called users of supply chain finance sing its praises. PJ Bain, CEO of PrimeRevenue, recently penned a piece on Valuing the […]

In the world of dedicated Supply Chain Finance platforms, there are not many vendors.  There are the two that have been around for some time […]

Recently I had a chance to chat with PJ Bain, CEO of PrimeRevenue, and hear his thoughts around the firm's partnership with SAP. I always say there's one fact about a person that tells you a lot about him. PJ and I both enjoy sports, and I knew he played tight end on Georgia Tech’s football team. But I did not know he was a walk-on for those four years, which illustrated his passion for the game of football and his determination to be the best he can be. That passion carries over as CEO of a company he is taking to the next level with supply chain finance.

Banks have historically been the dominate provider of both platform and funding of reverse factoring (commonly called supply chain finance) programs over the last decade. […]

Funding has grown more sophisticated with supply chain finance programs to large companies, driving margins down in many cases. There are several interesting issues around […]

A week does not go by without another a bank announcing a partnership with the latest fintech vendor or rolling out the latest payable or […]

Trying to determine just how much alternative business finance is occurring in the form of payable and receivable solutions versus mainstream lending is not a straightforward task. As we mentioned in a previous post, for the majority of alternative finance B2B providers, information on size, volumes, etc. is kept private, no different than trying to find the payment terms and commercial agreements between a Bechtel and a Sunoco or IBM and one of its engineering suppliers. That data is just not public.

One of the most confusing things in the fintech and altfin space is that no one really knows how to segment the market.  There is […]

According to International Asset Transactions LLC (IAT), they have been dedicated to making illiquid (non-tradable) financial assets tradable since 1988.  IAT claims to have pioneered […]

It’s not often you get to look at someone’s raw data. Most private vendors when discussing their business will talk in percentages, but not numbers. […]

ApexPeak, a Singapore-based nonbank capital provider, has been acquiring companies that facilitate supply chain finance and SME lending in emerging markets. Its’ most recent acquisition […]