RE: Italian article27 Sep 2022 12:06
Supply@ME Capital plc (or SYME), the innovative Italian fintech platform listed on the London Stock Exchange and founded by Alessandro Zamboni , which specializes in inventory demobilization for manufacturing and trading companies, has completed its first official Inventory Monetisation transaction. At the moment it is not yet possible to know the name of the company involved(see press release here).
What is known is that the transaction, with a total value of about 1.6 million euros, involved an Italian company active in the design and manufacture of industrial and special vehicles, electronic systems, electrical wiring harnesses and components for various sectors. The client company is active in Europe (particularly Italy), Africa and the United States.
This first Inventory Monetisation deal comes following the strategic alliance signed last June with VeChain Foundation, a leading provider of blockchain-based supply chain and sustainability-related services (see other BeBeez article). The agreement allowed it to kick off the first securitization of surplus stored in inventory and is aimed at launching a Web3 stream with the intention of funding up to $10 million of Inventory Monetisation transactions, based on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) underwritten directly by VeChain.
The agreement, in detail, involves two phases. The first, which is the one that has just been concluded, consists of a first actual transaction involving precisely an Italian company selected by Supply@ME within its client portfolio, with VeChain also acting as investor. Of the initial $10 million made available by the deal, as mentioned above, òthe equivalent of €1.6 million was immediately allocated to finance the stock of the first selected Italian customer, while the remaining amount of capital will be used during the second phase, for additional customer companies, including the current UK portfolio.
In detail, the second phase of work will aim to implement a full-fledged Inventory Monetization 3.0 Platform, which will include the issuance of NFTs for the development of innovative marketplaces focused on B2B inventory sales, exploration of decentralized finance with ad hoc partnerships, and, in general, a dedicated governance protocol. For this phase, inventory monetization operations are also expected to be financed by additional liquidity providers (cryptocurrency managers and direct investors through liquidity pool partnerships).
The Inventory Monetisation operation involved one of the companies dedicated to inventory trading belonging to the Alternative Investment Fund promoted by Supply@ME.
In this regard, it is worth mentioning that Supply@ME in 2021 acquired TradeFlow Capital Management, a Singapore-based asset manager with assets already two funds focused on "in-transit" Inventory Monetisation transactions. The reason for the acquisition had been not only the extension of "end-to-end" monetization services (from "ship" to "warehouse") but also that