---
title: "Supply chain finance after Greensill (research idea)"
description: "Supply chain finance appears on 101 recent papers, mostly in the finance and operations research journals, but only 32 of them carry a risk, default, disclosure, accounting or fintech keyword, and reverse factoring on one. Since the Greensill collapse, firms must disclose these programmes. Who bears the risk, and does disclosure change pricing?"
url: https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/supply-chain-finance-after-greensill
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/supply-chain-finance-after-greensill.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "Supply chain finance appears on 101 recent papers, mostly in the finance and operations research journals, but only 32 of them carry a risk, default, disclosure, accounting or fintech keyword, and reverse factoring on one."
date: "2026-10-23"
updated: "2026-10-23"
status: "seed"
tags: ["finance", "operations research", "supply chain"]
keywords: ["supply chain finance"]
---

# Supply chain finance after Greensill

Supply chain finance appears on 101 recent papers, mostly in the finance and operations research journals, but only 32 of them carry a risk, default, disclosure, accounting or fintech keyword, and reverse factoring on one. Since the Greensill collapse, firms must disclose these programmes. Who bears the risk, and does disclosure change pricing?

## What prompted this

Since October 2025, "supply chain finance" appears on 101 papers (59 in finance journals, 25 in operations research), and "reverse factoring" on 1. Only 32 of the 101 also carry a risk, default, bankruptcy, disclosure, accounting, fintech, blockchain or platform keyword, and most of those are about blockchain and credit risk models rather than about the programmes' failure modes.

## Questions

- Since the 2023 disclosure rules for supplier finance programmes, did firms that disclose large programmes pay more for debt, or see their payables reclassified?
- When a buyer's finance programme stops, how fast do its suppliers run into distress?
- Do fintech-run programmes price supplier risk, or the buyer's risk alone?

## Data that could help

The new supplier-finance disclosures in annual reports, supplier-customer links, suppliers' payment terms and distress events.

## Next step

Hand-collect the supplier finance disclosures of large US and European firms for 2023–2025 and relate programme size to suppliers' days of receivables.

## Related research activity

*The keywords this note follows, in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals as of 2026-10-26*

| Keyword | Papers, last 30 days | Rank | Papers per month, Oct 23 – Oct 26* | Papers, last 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---|---:|
| supply chain finance | 6 | #306 | 1, 7, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 0, 3, 3, 5, 11, 3, 7, 3, 6, 11, 8, 10, 13, 3, 12, 12, 7, 9, 9, 9, 4, 13, 10, 7, 4, 5 | 214 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Supply chain finance after Greensill. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/supply-chain-finance-after-greensill

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-ideas-supply-chain-finance-after-greensill,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Supply chain finance after Greensill},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/supply-chain-finance-after-greensill}},
  urldate = {2026-10-23},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).