What is the supply chain financial model?

Supply chain finance means that banks manage the capital flow and logistics of upstream and downstream small and medium-sized enterprises around the core enterprises, transforming the uncontrollable risk of a single enterprise into the controllable risk of the whole supply chain enterprise, obtaining all kinds of information in a three-dimensional way and controlling the risk to the lowest financial service.

Supply chain finance (SCF) is a professional field of commercial bank credit business (bank level) and a financing channel for enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (enterprise level).

It means that banks provide customers (core enterprises) with settlement and wealth management services such as financing, and at the same time provide convenience for suppliers of these customers to receive loans in time, or provide advance payment and inventory financing services for their distributors. (Simply put, it is a financing mode in which banks link core enterprises with upstream and downstream enterprises to provide flexible financial products and services. )

The above definition is very close to the traditional factoring business and goods mortgage business (mortgage/pledge credit of movable property and goods rights). But there are obvious differences, that is, factoring and goods mortgage are only simple trade financing products, while supply chain finance is a systematic financing arrangement for all members of the supply chain, which is reached between core enterprises and banks.

The content of this article comes from: The New Encyclopedia of Financial Law (Fifth Edition) edited by China Law Publishing House.