{"id":55727,"date":"2026-06-04T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/55727\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:26:09","slug":"adb-and-standard-chartered-partner-to-expand-supply-chain-finance-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/55727\/","title":{"rendered":"ADB and Standard Chartered partner to expand supply chain finance in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779272897_724_1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"The initiative aims to improve access to working capital, enhance supply chain resilience and support SMEs, particularly through distributor financing, an underserved segment of the market.\" title=\"The initiative aims to improve access to working capital, enhance supply chain resilience and support SMEs, particularly through distributor financing, an underserved segment of the market.\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779272897_724_1x1_spacer.png\" class=\"article-pictue\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe initiative aims to improve access to working capital, enhance supply chain resilience and support SMEs, particularly through distributor financing, an underserved segment of the market.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> Manila-based multilateral funding Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Standard Chartered Bank have signed agreements to strengthen supply chain finance in India through risk-sharing arrangements covering both USD and rupee transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements include a risk participation arrangement structured through Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) to support US dollar-denominated transactions, and a partial guarantee facility agreement to support onshore rupee transactions, ADB said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the arrangements are intended to expand access to trade and supply chain finance for businesses operating in India and to support the continued flow of cross-border and domestic trade, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements were signed last week by ADB Vice-President Bhargav Dasgupta and Standard Chartered Bank&#8217;s India &amp; South Asia Chief Executive Officer P D Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Access to trade and supply chain finance remains a binding constraint for many businesses seeking to manage working capital, strengthen supply chain resilience, and participate in regional and global trade, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership extends ADB&#8217;s risk-sharing capacity into both offshore and onshore segments of the Indian market, addressing financing gaps that commercial provision alone has not been able to close, it said.<\/p>\n<p>A key feature of this partnership is its focus on emerging and underserved segments of supply chain finance, particularly distributor financing, it said, adding that the collaboration represents ADB&#8217;s first engagement in this space within the market.<\/p>\n<p>By enabling risk participation in distributor finance transactions, the partnership aims to unlock working capital for downstream players &#8212; often small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) &#8212; that play a critical role in domestic supply chains, it said.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership aligns with ADB&#8217;s strategic priority to promote inclusive economic growth and financial deepening across Asia and the Pacific, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on  June 4, 2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The initiative aims to improve access to working capital, enhance supply chain resilience and support SMEs, particularly through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21387],"tags":[27349,27351,20677,22223,21286,27350],"class_list":["post-55727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-standard-chartered","tag-adb-india","tag-sme-financing","tag-standard-chartered","tag-standard-chartered-india","tag-supply-chain-finance","tag-trade-finance-india"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116689474922327384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}