Insights
For anchors
Explainer · for anchors, financiers
Records anyone can check: tamper-evident documents in invoice and order finance
Invoice and order finance depend on documents being what they claim to be. A fingerprint anyone can check narrows the room for one kind of fraud.
Mtaji Insights · 31 October 2026 · 2 min read
Explainer · for anchors, financiers
Letters of credit, open account and supply chain finance: matching the instrument to the trade
The instruments are old and well understood. What has changed is where supply chain finance fits among them, and when it is the better tool.
Mtaji Insights · 31 October 2026 · 2 min read
Explainer · for anchors, financiers
Inside a program: from an anchor’s approval to a financier’s decision
A program looks simple from outside: an invoice is approved and someone is paid early. Underneath are agreements, roles and checks that decide whether the money moves correctly.
Mtaji Insights · 31 October 2026 · 2 min read
Analysis · for anchors, financiers
Working capital on both sides of an anchor’s trade
Much of the cash a large company’s trade depends on sits with the businesses on either side of it. Supply chain finance reaches both.
Mtaji Insights · 30 October 2026 · 3 min read
Explainer · for anchors, financiers, suppliers and distributors
Who owes the money: the obligor in each of five structures
Every supply chain finance product answers one question its own way: if the money is not repaid, who owes it?
Mtaji Insights · 30 October 2026 · 2 min read
Explainer · for anchors, suppliers and distributors
Distributor finance, described plainly
Distributors buy from an anchor and need stock before they have sold it. What the product is, who decides, and what a distributor gives in return.
Mtaji Insights · 30 October 2026 · 2 min read
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