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SCF Concentration Risk: What Lenders Get Wrong in Supply Chain Finance

Investor materials for Point Bonita, a trade finance fund, reportedly highlighted exposure to many named obligors, according to BCR in August 2026. Yet one seller, First Brands, ultimately represented roughly...

Factoring vs Forfaiting: A Practical Guide for Trade Finance Teams

Global factoring turnover reached roughly $4.7 trillion in 2025, according to FCI figures reported by ABF Journal. Forfaiting, by contrast, has no widely published volume figure at all. For trade...

Cross-Border Supply Chain Finance: Managing Currency and Regulatory Complexity

Cross-border supply chain finance (SCF) adds complexity that domestic programmes do not face. The invoice currency, funding currency and supplier’s operating currency may differ; payments can cross correspondent networks and...

Anchor-Led vs Platform-Led SCF Models: Which Works Better for Banks?

For a bank building a supply chain finance (SCF) business, the first strategic choice is not the software. It is the operating model. An anchor-led programme gives the bank control...

Co-Lending Models: The Operational Backbone Banks and NBFCs Need

A co-lending arrangement between a bank and an NBFC (non-banking financial company) sounds simple on a term sheet: two lenders, one borrower, one agreed split of the loan. In practice,...

BNPL for SMEs: How B2B Buy Now Pay Later Actually Gets Underwritten

B2B buy now pay later is one of several models designed to provide short-tenor working capital at the point of a business transaction. In India, its regulatory treatment depends on...

AI Governance in Lending: Building the Guardrails Before You Build the Model

Model hallucinations and unreliable outputs were among the top two AI risks cited by 67% of AI vendors, 70% of surveyed financial institutions and 70% of regulators in the Cambridge...

Reverse Factoring Explained: How It Works and Where It Fits in Supply Chain Finance

Global supply chain finance volume reached an estimated $2.462 trillion in 2024, up 8%, while funds in use rose 5% to $942 billion, according to BCR Publishing’s World Supply Chain...

Data Privacy in Lending: The DPDP Act and What It Means for Lenders

A lender may hold identity documents, income data, bureau reports, bank statements, device information and repayment histories across several systems and service providers. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023...

RBI Digital Lending Guidelines: What They Mean for Loan Origination Platforms

Digital NBFCs sanctioned 13.2 crore loans worth ₹2.15 lakh crore in FY2025-26, according to FACE’s March 2026 report. At that scale, the RBI (Digital Lending) Directions, 2025 make fund-flow, disclosure...

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