$225m into AvidXchange shows the American B2B paper payment dam maybe breaking
AvidXchange just closed a $225m round. Why would a bunch of very smart investors put $225m into something as boring as Accounts Payable software for small business? These are top tier investors: TPG...
View ArticleWhat the 70% decline in Tungsten Networks price teaches us about the future...
By Bernard Lunn When Tungsten Networks did their IPO on the London market in October 2013, I was involved with a project in working capital finance. Tungsten was the big story that got everybody’s...
View ArticleHow Lending Marketplace hyper-growth is changing Supply Chain Finance
By Bernard Lunn Supply Chain Finance is one tool within Working Capital Finance. Yesterday we looked at how Banks are losing out in this massive market. Today’s research note explores how the...
View ArticleHow blockchain technology could integrate financial & physical supply chains...
Small business finance is a window of opportunity big enough to drive a truck through. Yet despite years of effort by many smart ventures, there has not yet been a breakthrough to mass scale. Many...
View ArticleMarket Place Lending is simply automated Asset Liability Management and that...
Image source Eons ago I managed a sales team that sold core banking systems to global banks. One sales guy was consistently the best performer. I decided to find out his secret to teach it to the rest...
View ArticleInterview with Tom Dunn of Orbian about the past present and future of Supply...
There are some people who do more than they tell. Tom Dunn, the Chairman of Orbian, is one of them. He has quietly built a big and profitable Fintech business that is delivering low interest finance...
View ArticleInterview with Soul Htite of Dianrong to understand the intersection of...
Both subjects, Supply Chain Finance and Blockchain, get a lot of attention on Daily Fintech. So when we saw a solution combining them (called Chained Finance) we were intrigued. When we saw that the...
View ArticleTradeplus24 CHF100m Fintech raise in Switzerland signals Insurance move into...
Note: the deal was done in CHF which is about parity with USD, so you can read that as $100m. When I first started looking at the Swiss Fintech scene in 2014, my post was called: Zurich Fintech fans...
View ArticleChange the Supply Chain Game with IOTA
Most of today’s supply chains are complex, black boxes of trade. We don’t know where our goods are at a particular point, who processed them, when something went wrong, or what is real or fraudulent....
View ArticleRoyalty, supply chain finance and Hollywood-esque mystique
With a name that sounds like it was lifted from the screenplay of Casino Royale, Lex Greensill, the London based, Australian entrepreneur betting big on supply chain finance, has scored a strong...
View ArticleSupply Chain Finance Patents granted to Prime Revenue; best or worst of times...
I am covering today for Jessica Ellerm. It is the best of times and the worst of times in Small Business Finance. Best of times: Small Business Finance is a window of opportunity big enough to drive a...
View ArticleWhat went wrong at Greensill Capital?
Greensill Capital (a UK based supply chain finance company founded in 2011) filed for insolvency protection on March 8, 2021, having raised over $2 billion in capital. Supply Chain Finance is a wonky...
View ArticleFollowing the Greensill Capital scandal, when will investors learn to stop...
This article is written by guest author Jack Wright. All opinions expressed here are his. Daily Fintech very seldom looks at one-off guest posts and never look at ones that are promotional. However...
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