The semantics of the SCF and associated markets are very inconsistent … definitional labels amongst the “insiders/experts” delineating SCF, DSCF, DD, AR Financing, virtual cards etc. are great to debate among the trade financing intelligentsia — even if some vendors have co-opted certain terms for their own purposes — but the broader market confuses terms, uses them imprecisely and generally is confused. We need standardization here more broadly …
The semantics of the SCF and associated markets are very inconsistent … definitional labels amongst the “insiders/experts” delineating SCF, DSCF, DD, AR Financing, virtual cards etc. are great to debate among the trade financing intelligentsia — even if some vendors have co-opted certain terms for their own purposes — but the broader market confuses terms, uses them imprecisely and generally is confused. We need standardization here more broadly …