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Structuring More Efficient Finance Workflows

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Microsoft sells products in every corner of the globe. Sometimes closing those sales requires the software giant to assist large customers with financing.

“With the current state of world trade, customers are looking for longer credit terms and suppliers are looking for ways to maximize liquidity from their receivables to increase their sales,” explains Damaris Sardenberg, senior finance manager in Microsoft’s Structured Finance group. Bridging this gap in cash flows is the mission of the Structured Finance group, which provides customized financing solutions such as factoring, channel financing, and supply chain finance to Microsoft’s customers and partners.

A couple of years ago, the group was providing a great service to customers, and to the Microsoft sales team, but it was doing so inefficiently. It received requests for financing via one-off meetings and email conversations.

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Meg Waters is the editor in chief of Treasury & Risk. She is the former editor in chief of BPM Magazine and the former managing editor of Business Finance.

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