Each winner in the 2026 Regional Supply Chain Finance Awards drives innovation and financial inclusion across their respective regions.
From Ecobank’s AI-powered solutions in Africa to MUFG’s advanced working capital platforms in North America, these regional leaders are leveraging cutting-edge technology to enhance liquidity, streamline processes, and support sustainable trade.
Whether through digital platforms, strategic partnerships, or unique financing solutions, these institutions are reshaping supply chains and creating new opportunities for businesses worldwide.
Africa
Ecobank
Ecobank has its anchor-led supply chain finance offering through Omni Plus, leveraging partnerships with development finance institutions and fintechs to roll out risk-sharing programs and fully digital invoice discounting solutions, according to Souleymane Diagne, the bank’s group head of trade finance.
“Complementing these efforts, our Merchant Cash Advance offering transforms digital sales into flexible working capital for SMEs, particularly those without formal credit histories,” says Diagne. “With a presence in 34 African countries, we have also deployed AI-driven tools for supplier discovery and transaction matching via our Single Market Trade Hub. This innovation enables SMEs to scale regional value chains under the AfCFTA [African Continental Free Trade Agreement], while benefiting from liquidity support backed by our unparalleled cross-border payment capabilities, thereby driving financial inclusion and fostering intra-African trade.”
Asia-Pacific
DBS
DBS actively assists clients in repositioning their supply chains and expanding their market presence across the Asia-Pacific region and key global trade corridors by delivering integrated services, including financing, risk management, and strategic advisory.
A core component is providing essential support to clients planning to relocate production and sourcing activities within the region, with a focus on Southeast Asia, India, China, and emerging nearshoring hubs. DBS leverages its extensive trade-corridor network to seamlessly connect regional buyers and suppliers. This simplifies market access and enables efficient cross-border supplier financing, which is crucial for driving diversification and broadening market reach.
Caribbean
Banreservas
Banreservas dominates Caribbean SCF as the Dominican Republic’s largest bank. Its international offices (Miami, New York, and Madrid) link regional exporters to North American and European hubs.
A proprietary e-factoring platform enables real-time invoice approval, integration with enterprise resource planning (ERP), and immediate liquidity. Leveraging guarantees (from the US International Development Finance Corporation, for example), the bank extends SCF to underserved sectors such as green-energy businesses and those led by women. Banreservas’ trillion-peso asset base provides the stability necessary for large-scale regional reverse factoring.
Central & Eastern Europe
UniCredit
UniCredit’s proprietary Trade Finance Gate digital portal enables seamless onboarding of suppliers across the bank’s 13 core markets. UniCredit is the most advanced bank in digitalizing the paper trail in the Balkans. A strategic partnership with Taulia, a leading SCF fintech, enables the bank to offer a fintech-like user experience with the balance sheet of a major bank.
Latin America
Santander
In 2024, Santander launched Invensa, a joint venture with Pemberton, to offer inventory finance solutions. This is crucial for Latin American industries, such as agriculture and automotive, that hold large physical inventories. The platform connects seamlessly across borders, meaning a supplier in Chile can be onboarded as easily as one in Spain.
Middle East
Arab Bank
Arab Bank has launched an innovative SCF platform, embedded within the bank’s Corporate Digital Gateway, with the United Arab Emirates as the first rollout country. The digital platform will enable businesses to handle high transaction volumes efficiently while automating the SCF cycle. It connects key stakeholders (buyers, sellers, and Arab Bank) through an integrated system featuring monitoring tools, dashboards, and management information system reporting. Offerings include payable finance, reverse factoring, receivable finance, and dynamic discounting.
North America
MUFG
MUFG Americas Working Capital and Trade Services—including SCF, receivables, inventory, and trade finance—boosted return on equity by 47.5% year over year up to Q3 2025. As a leading syndication bank, MUFG distributed $25 billion in SCF assets through 30 transactions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, serving over 500 buyer and seller clients and 85,000 suppliers in 46 countries, including recent additions in Brazil, India, and the UAE. Buyer enablement provides advanced analytics for working capital control with easy ERP integration. Suppliers benefit from intuitive interfaces, real-time payment alerts, and deep search. MUFG is transforming working capital finance through a modular platform that combines SCF, dynamic discounting, pay-on-behalf, and inventory finance. The accounts receivable purchase platform offers payables-level visibility, instant eligibility, and real-time insights, eliminating manual reconciliation.
Western Europe
Societe Generale
Societe Generale has adopted a fintech-driven SCF solution that replaces a single-bank platform. This innovation uses an advanced digital platform integrated with the client’s ERP, improving visibility, enabling multifunder distribution, and enhancing financing stability through bank-agnosticism. The fintech partner manages ERP integration, freeing client resources. The new structure allows receivables to be sold directly to funders via an Irish special purpose vehicle, a global first for Societe Generale Factoring, offering greater flexibility and efficiency. The bank is also a pioneer in positive impact finance, using a mature tiered-pricing framework based on supplier sustainability and addressing EU rules, such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. The bank’s partnership with Komgo facilitates highly digitized onboarding and document handling, reducing typical banking paperwork.
