Supply@me Where it might have an edge10 Oct 2020 15:56
Is in what it calls ‘inventory monetisation.’ It is trying to pioneer a securitisation scheme based on Special Purpose Vehicles that is seeking to create a new asset class, called inventory.
Inventory has value and, hypothetically, it could be securitised. At the end of the day, it is not a million miles away from the commodities market, which started out with farmers having inventory (e.g. crops) and futures contracts being used to turn that inventory (or future inventory) into something that can be traded.