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A new project from Tradeshift’s digital incubation unit, Frontiers, has used blockchain technology to turn invoices from dumb paper to well-specified digital assets which can be traded. Using that in combination with smart contracts, banks can use invoices from global enterprises as collateral to finance suppliers down into tier 2 and tier 3 of international supply chains.

Working capital remains a priority for Dutch corporations, but there’s much more to it than extending DPO.

The Working Capital Forum’s Mike Hewitt asks three leaders for their advice on this vital topic.

The average paper check costs $1.22 to process, says NACHA. So why are they still important to US corporates?

Our largest-ever group of treasury and procurement specialists met at London’s Dorchester Hotel.

Stockholm’s Berns Hotel was the venue for our first ever round table to be held in Scandinavia.

The first ever Working Capital Forum to be held in New York City saw a wide variety of guests.

As working capital increasingly becomes a top-level agenda item, businesses need to adapt.

Conversations about working capital management often go down the route of discussing payment terms extensions and how that can help improve the payables position on the balance sheet. But a different twist to that dialogue featured prominently in a recent meeting of...

For the treasurers and procurement directors who gathered at The Ritz for the latest meeting of the Working Capital Forum on 15th June, there was little doubt that a supplier finance strategy was an idea whose time has come. With a couple of exceptions, all were...