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Supply Chain Finance: Trends, Challenges and Questions for 2019
09 - 05 - 2019 | |
The factoring industry is in need of a facelift. While the concept of selling unpaid invoices to someone who has the cash up-front has been around for centuries, modern-day financial services present companies with a slew of different options to access capital.
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Factoring Finds A New Face As The Bridge To Bank Loans
24 - 04 - 2019 |
The factoring industry is in need of a facelift. While the concept of selling unpaid invoices to someone who has the cash up-front has been around for centuries, modern-day financial services present companies with a slew of different options to access capital.
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Have we reached 'Peak Supply Chain Finance?'
27 - 03 - 2019 | |
With so many new fintech start-ups in the supplier finance arena, some observers see a risk of overcrowding as the newer players jostle against established providers and banks. As ACTS members prepare for the third annual Supply Chain Finance Forum Asia in Singapore, what might this mean for companies in the region?
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How Invoice Financing Is Driving Singapore’s SME Growth
07 - 02 - 2019 | |
Small and medium-sized enterprises or SMEs are the driving force behind Singapore’s economy. They comprise 99 percent of the country’s 220,100 businesses, employ two-thirds of the workforce, and contribute 49 percent of gross domestic product.
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5 KEY REASONS WHY SUCCESSFUL SMES TAKE BUSINESS LOANS
03 - 01 - 2019 |
One of the greatest misconceptions about SME financing is the notion that taking on debt is always a bad thing. Many people associate loans (aka. debt financing) with financial difficulties and cash flow problems and often assume that companies will only take up loans if they are in a poor cash position. However, this cannot be further from the truth.
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Cash Flow Bottlenecks Drive Supply Chains Toward Factoring
16 - 05 - 2018 |
Trade finance has evolved into an expansive market that combines supply chain finance, invoice finance and factoring, reverse factoring and a slew of other products – all aimed at ensuring that cash flows more easily through supply chains.
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How Supply Chain Finance Is Offering Companies A New Cash Source
09 - 04 - 2018 | |
The pace of disruption and change in every industry today is accelerating. For many chief financial officers (CFOs), the challenge is not which projects to fund -- there are plenty of options (e.g., investing in new markets, growing product lines, launching new divisions or pursuing mergers and acquisitions) -- but where is the money to fund them going to come from?
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Are Singapore’s SMEs Really Prospering?
30 - 03 - 2018 | |
With an unemployment rate of 2.1% and per capita GDP of nearly $53,000, Singapore’s economy is one of the world’s strongest. This economy is powered by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up 99% of all enterprises and employ 65% of all workers.
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4,000 jobs to be created in financial services and fintech under MAS blueprint
30 - 10 - 2017 | |
SINGAPORE — A total of 4,000 net jobs will be created annually till 2020 in the financial services and fintech sectors as part of the industry transformation map (ITM) for financial services which was launched on Monday (Oct 30).
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Fintech investment in S'pore hits $83m as global deals soar
02 - 08 - 2017 | |
Global investment in financial technology (fintech) firms more than doubled in the second quarter of the year, compared with the first quarter, to US$8.4 billion (S$11.4 billion) across 293 deals, KPMG said in a new report yesterday.
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SESAMi and Capital Match announce a merger to form an innovative supply chain finance platform with more than S$20m in annual revenues
07 - 11 - 2018 |
SESAMi (Holding) (“SESAMi”), the largest e-procurement platform in Singapore, and Capital Match Holdings (“Capital Match”), the leading invoice financing platform present in Singapore and Hong Kong, have announced they are joining forces through an equity merger.