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Follow on Google News | ODeX an Online Document Exchange Platform receives strategic investment from Invoice BazaarInvoice Bazaar, a FinTech Supply Chain Finance platform with presence across Asia today announced an undisclosed investment in online document exchange platform ODeX.
By: www.odex.co As part of ODeX's proposition, it already works with Invoice Bazaar in India for enabling payment settlements to shipping companies. ODeX along with Invoice Bazaar's is working on solving the Supply Chain Finance problem in the shipping industry. The investment from Invoice Bazaar will be used towards expanding ODeX's footprint in the Middle East as well as towards product development. ODeX - An Online Document Exchange Platform connects all the stakeholders in the shipping ecosystem, manage the workflow in the ecosystem by digitizing the manual documentation exchange, collect payments and is now able to offer early payment option with the partnership with Invoice Bazaar. In the last 30 months since founding, ODeX has built an enviable ecosystem with marquee shipping lines including MSC, COSCO Shipping, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Sud, clients including Reliance, TATA Group, CEAT, Vedanta, DHL, Godrej, and a number of customer brokers, freight brokers, banks, CFS, Weighbridge operators in its network. ODeX has the platform that can scale up across emerging markets. Shipping is a $7 trillion economy and business from documentation automation is a multi-billion dollar opportunity. 556 million containers (TeU's) carried across the world generates 11 billion documents which leads to a huge opportunity for trade document digitization and finance. Speaking on this fundraise Liji Nowal, Managing Director of ODeX commented "We value the investment from Invoice Bazaar as they bring extensive financial management and credit structuring skills. We have already benefited from working with Invoice Bazaar as a partner and I am sure the investment from Invoice Bazaar will lead to a further deepening of our relationship to complete an important pillar of our client proposition viz credit." Invoice Bazaar is seeking to expand its Supply Chain Finance reach to the shipping industry through this minority acquisition. With a presence in the United Arab Emirates and a limited presence in India, the 2-year-old FinTech company has crossed early payment volumes of AED 100 Million (US$27Million) http://odex.co/ End
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