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Acquisition Financing: The Digital Revolution in Commercial Banking (Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology)
This book presents a business model that illustrates how to structure the relationship between financial services and procurement.
There is a clear barrier to entry when it comes to lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), making it even more urgent to develop new models to help these companies. Under the circumstances, creative solutions need to be implemented.
This book seeks to answer the question: “How can innovation support the dynamic and turbulent international context, as well as the increasingly relevant role of procurement?” investigating this question. It is increasingly important to take into account the complexity of international transactions that include unusually extended payment terms.
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Organizations need to determine the most effective means of managing financial relationships and the risks associated with lending and payments. This book provides a support system for the entire procurement process, starting with trade finance and ending with linked payments and supply chain finance.
In addition to this, companies have the responsibility of maintaining adequate levels of liquidity in the short and medium term. This is a constant difficulty in the modern era, as a result of the volatility of financial markets and the current climate of economic uncertainty, which makes it more difficult to obtain financing from external sources. It is necessary for companies to maximize their available working capital. This can be achieved through the novel idea of ​​procurement financing, which paves the way for small and medium-sized businesses to reap the benefits of the evolving notion of collaborative procurement.
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This book presents a number of real-world examples of cutting-edge approaches to financing acquisition transactions. It highlights how the application of technology and process improvement can help overcome the challenging financial scenario that exists today. Furthermore, the integrated approach to acquisition financing enables sustainable solutions, which will be of interest to academics, researchers, managers and professionals from both buying and selling companies, as well as banks and other financial institutions. This is because the business model presented was used as the basis for the integrated approach.
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