GTR UK Roundtable – How can supply chain finance redefine itself
Events / 06-01-21 / Share Link
A potential beneficiary of the pandemic with likely increases in take-up, supply chain finance has been dogged by the spectre of various high-profile business collapses and alleged misuse of the product, as a means of obscuring payment obligations and artificially boosting balance sheets.
Margrith Lutschg of Octet Finance, Chris Ruse of Greensill, Matthias Heck of Moody's Investors Service, Tim Nicolle of PrimaDollar and Sean Edwards of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group discuss to what extent the demand for payables finance and other forms of SCF increased over the last few months as a result of liquidity pressures and the need for working capital tools.