| As seen in the first chapters, technology plays a central role in supply chain finance (SCF): the improvement of software and platforms allows businesses to come together and speed up process flows throughout the supply chain, enabling various forms of financing solutions—from dynamic discounting via reverse factoring to the more complex reverse securitisation. Nevertheless, some barriers and pain points, which increase the set-up and transaction costs, still exist and have a negative impact on spreads and the value created for the supply chain community and its investors. Chapter 4 showed how Blockchain technology (BCT) could enable the creation of new services and application programming interfaces (APIs) that promise to lean up structures, speed up processes and make services more efficient and less costly. In order to outline the opportunities, this chapter deals first with the use cases that could help overcome barriers that arise when discussing and presenting the different SCF models, and it then successively analyses the impact of the adoption of this technology by the supply chain communities. |