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Arrowgrass Acquires Oxygen Finance: Company Update and Solution Analysis (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
March 14, 2016 | Jason Busch
In February, Arrowgrass Capital Partners, a London-based asset manager, announced it acquired Oxygen Finance. The acquisition is curious, in part because of the existing Arrowgrass and Basware partnership and Oxygen’s unique model, which we explore in this analysis. Oxygen currently has “billions of pounds” flowing through its infrastructure annually, primarily from U.K.-based public sector clients,…
Partnerships, SCF+ and More: Taulia’s Crossroads (Part 2) - [PRO Content]
March 1, 2016 | Jason Busch and David Gustin
In the first installment in this series, we provided our own recent history lesson on Taulia and how it got to where it is today — and the crossroads it currently faces from a strategy perspective. As we wrap up our Spend Matters PRO update on Taulia, we explore a number of specific areas of…
Taulia’s Crossroads: Both Directions Lead to Good Places (We Think!) — Part 1 - [PRO Content]
February 29, 2016 | Jason Busch and David Gustin
We had the chance to spend two days last week at Taulia Connect, the customer conference of one of today’s largest and fastest growing e-invoicing, supplier network and fintech providers globally. (One hundred customers may not seem like a lot, but in this sector, it is.) Despite its solid momentum since the last event in…
Nipendo: Capabilities and Use Cases that Make Supplier Networks Look Like Green Screens - [PRO Content]
February 4, 2016 | Jason Busch
There are few technology companies that are doing anything terribly creative when it comes to connecting buyers and suppliers on a transactional basis outside of basic e-invoicing, aside from various tricks involving the onboarding of vendors and enabling downstream activities such as early payment and trade financing. But one vendor stands apart when it comes…
Will Trade Financing Allow Basware to Achieve Its Lofty Goals? - [PRO Content]
October 14, 2015 | Xavier Olivera
In this Spend Matters PRO article, we explore what the Basware Commerce Network delivers, going beyond improving the e-invoicing and procure-to-pay process alone. Basware is making some major bets on supply chain finance (definitionally speaking in our vernacular: trade financing) as the centerpiece of its future network value proposition. But will Basware succeed where Ariba…
Sizing Up Tungsten’s Numbers: Invoicing and Trade Financing Market Implications - [PRO Content]
June 1, 2015 | David Gustin and Jason Busch
Two weeks ago saw a material drop in Tungsten’s stock price (over 20%) – a trend that continued early the following week – only to be reversed after a secondary offering that provided support for the stock (at the time of writing, the stock price had rebounded 25% off of its lows). But the initial…
Invoice Discounting Programs and Supplier Uptake: Exploring Behaviors of 3,800 Surveyed Suppliers on the Taulia Network (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
October 8, 2014 | Jason Busch
The adoption of both e-invoicing and invoice discounting programs is still very much in its infancy. Good data is difficult to find when it comes to the following types of questions: With what frequency do suppliers log on to portals designed to provide invoice approval and related information? What types of suppliers are most likely…
Don’t Do This! Dynamic Discounting and Trade Financing “Worst Practices” - [PRO Content]
April 30, 2014 | Jason Busch
Sure, companies need to understand payables and receivables financing best practices when it comes to business/program considerations, contracting, supplier engagement strategies, technology adoption, and deployment. But they also should know what not to do. Our research team finds that too many companies are guilty of a common set of “worst practices” in this area. In…
Will Trade Financing Bring About More Change to Banks or ERPs? - [PRO Content]
April 16, 2014 | Jason Busch
We define trade financing as the combination of receivables financing and payables financing (inclusive of supply chain finance) and purchase-to-pay technologies, including e-invoicing. To say that interest in this area among large multinational corporations, banks, funds, ERPs and network/SaaS players is merely significant would be inaccurate. Rather, it would seem that the current emerging world…
Tungsten’s Three-Headed Funding Model Eliminates Hassle for Suppliers of Large Corporations - [PRO Content]
April 14, 2014 | David Gustin and Jason Busch
Tungsten was set up pure and simple to use technology to change and shape the way suppliers of large corporations access financing. Their slogan is a “Secure, Smart, Fast” solution for suppliers to get early payment. By the summer, Tungsten expects to have the financing capability in a fully compliant and regulated way across Europe…

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