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Recently, FCI and Demica announced an interesting partnership. In my words, it went something like let Demica be the low cost platform for supply chain […]

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 […]

Traditional financing of trade receivables has been done by Banks directly and indirectly through credit facilities, by the Capital Markets and by Commercial Financiers. The […]

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. […]

Do we really need another supply chain finance book or publication? I wrote a post about how Supply Chain Finance (“SCF”) is the new plastics […]

A recent article in Treasury Today talked about how uncertain bank regulatory and increasing costs of credit from Basel capital rules is putting Trade Receivable […]

I have to laugh as I continue to see confirmation that banks still fund a big part of the Shadow Bank market.  Most of you […]

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 […]

When companies trade cross border on open terms, it presents risks and usually extended terms, especially in emerging markets. In fact, the U.S. has become […]

The sale of Demica a few weeks back appeared to be purely a sale initiated by J.M. Huber to the investment bankers JRJ Group, TomsCapital […]

I wrote a piece recently on Demica wondering why an industrial company like J.M. Huber would want to hold a supply chain finance technology company […]

Demica is owned by J.M. Huber, a diversified multi-billion dollar family owned company headquartered in the U.S. with operations and staff located globally. I had […]