Greensill Capital and the securitisation of supply chain financing
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2023
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Weller, S.
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Area Development and Policy, 2023; 8(4):398-415
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The non-bank financial institution Greensill Capital pioneered platform-based supply chain financing and the securitisation of supply chain debt, then controversially extended the business to lending funds to firms in the productive economy based on anticipated future invoices. By rolling over these supposedly short-term and liquid loans, this mechanism provided unsecured long-term funding to risky businesses. The article examines how regulatory and political arbitrage, and the ambiguity of a positioning on the edge of legality, enabled Greensill to challenge the established boundaries between the financial and the productive domains.
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Copyright 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)