Washington D.C, April 7, 2025 – Vayana, India's largest Supply Chain Finance Network has joined the SME Finance Forum as the global membership network’s latest member. The 300+ members/affiliates of the Forum are SME financing experts operating in 190 countries who share the common goal of expanding access to finance to small businesses worldwide through knowledge exchange and innovation.
SME Finance Forum is delighted to welcome India's largest Supply Chain Finance Network. It is with great pleasure that I welcome Vayana to the SME Finance Forum. Vayana’s pioneering efforts in operationalizing the ITFS platform demonstrate their dedication to bringing Supply Chain Finance to every business. Vayana’s commitment to providing digital, convenient, and affordable access to credit for corporates and their trade ecosystems is a testament to their leadership in the supply chain finance sector," said Qamar Saleem, Head of SME Finance Forum.
Vayana is India's largest Supply Chain Finance platform offering a range of Trade credit and Trade enablement solutions for all the tiers of Supply Chains. Financing close to USD 40 Billion+ till date with over 3,00,000 enterprises across 3,000+ supply chains, Vayana is the preferred partner in supply chain finance. As an RBI licensed Payment Aggregator, Vayana operates one of India’s largest B2B payment platforms. Vayana connects corporates and their trade ecosystems to provide digital, convenient, and affordable access to credit for their payables and receivables. With its proprietary technology, Vayana has processed over 5 million financing transactions and offers a zero-change experience to customers. The network today spans across 600 cities and 2000+ pin codes in India and extends to 23 countries around the globe. To enable credit flow to deep tiers of the supply chains, Vayana also offers risk assessment and monitoring solutions for supply chains. The company is increasingly catering to the smallest of MSMEs in the long tail of supply chains.
“By joining the SME Finance Forum, Vayana aims to access valuable insights, resources, and partnerships that will help us better serve our clients and further our mission of enabling financial inclusion for SMEs. We are particularly interested in participating in the Forum's events and working groups, as well as accessing their research and knowledge resources to contribute to discussions and initiatives that support SMEs around the world.” says Vinod Parmar, Group CFO – Vayana.
SME Finance Forum: Innovation & Partnership for MSMEs Growth
The SME Finance Forum, backed by G20 and IFC/World Bank, is the leading global network of 300+ members/affiliates operating in 190 countries. Network comprises of SME focused institutions providing and enabling finance and services- banks, non-banks financial institutions, fintech, payment platforms, development institutions, credit guarantee companies, insurers, investment funds, supply chain linked players, banking and SME associations, policy advocates, regulators, academia, consulting houses, knowledge aggregators.
Our member, affiliates, and associated stakeholders benefit from learning/replicating best practices from across the world, innovating new products for business growth, acquiring risk mitigation tools, establishing partnerships, attracting investors, and being recognized amongst a peer group of global innovators. Our products consist of “members only” solutions (like innovation hubs, solutions clinics, peer group networks, study tours, specialized tools and trainings, member portal repository, partnered initiatives) as well as public good services (200+ publications library, 500+ videos, webinars, newsletters, trainings, annual awards, annual event etc.)
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About Vayana
Vayana is India's largest Supply Chain Finance platform offering a range of Trade credit and Trade enablement solutions for all the tiers of Supply Chains. Financing close to USD 40 Billion+ till date with over 3,00,000 enterprises across 3,000+ supply chains, Vayana is the preferred partner in supply chain finance. As an RBI licensed Payment Aggregator, Vayana operates one of India’s largest B2B payment platforms.
Vayana connects corporates and their trade ecosystems to provide digital, convenient, and affordable access to credit for their payables and receivables. With its proprietary technology, Vayana has processed over 5 million financing transactions and offers a zero-change experience to customers. The network today spans across 600 cities and 2000+ pin codes in India and extends to 23 countries around the globe. To enable credit flow to deep tiers of the supply chains, Vayana also offers risk assessment and monitoring solutions for supply chains. The company is increasingly catering to the smallest of MSMEs in the long tail of supply chains.
Vayana is India’s largest GSP (GST Suvidha Provider), facilitating GST, E-Way bill filing and E-invoicing for numerous corporates and lakhs of SMEs. This platform has processed over 8 billion GSP API calls, with zero downtime since its launch with 1 in every 4 e-invoices being generated through Vayana.
To help businesses assess risk in their distribution networks and supply chains, Rubix Data Sciences, a Vayana subsidiary, offers the award-winning Rubix ARMS™ Platform for monitoring credit, supplier, and counterparty risk of their customers, distributors, dealers, suppliers, and borrowers. 1300 corporates, banks, credit insurance companies, and fintechs depend on Rubix to annually assess and monitor the risk of over 300,000 businesses in India and overseas.
Furthering its objective of bringing Supply Chain Finance to every business, Vayana is one of the first entities to operationalise its ITFS (International Trade Finance Services) platform through Vayana TradeXchange at GIFT City, under the guidelines issued by International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).
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