Business organizations have recently experimented an increasing risk exposure due to several exogenous factors (e.g. the legal and regulatory framework, the technological innovation and the volatility of financial markets and commodities), actually exacerbated by the current economic crisis...

Background: Supply chain finance (SCF) is a series of financial solutions provided by financial institutions to suppliers and customers facing demands on their working capital. As a systematic arrangement, SCF utilizes the authenticity of the trade between (SMEs) and their “counterparties”,...