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This is the financial autopsy of the Greensill Capital collapse — how a high-profile fintech, backed by SoftBank’s Vision Fund and advised by former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, built a $10 billion asset management operation whose entire commercial viability depended on the annual renewal of policies from one mid-sized insurer. When the insurer walked away, the structure had no alternative. The funds froze, Greensill filed for insolvency, and the cascade exposed massive concentration risk and future receivables financing that investors had not properly understood.

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On March 1st, 2021, Credit Suisse froze four supply chain finance funds worth approximately $10 billion.

The cause was not a market crash or mass defaults. It was a single Australian insurance company — Bond and Credit Company — deciding not to renew trade credit insurance policies covering $4.6 billion of the book.

We dissect the full sequence: the extension from confirmed invoices to future receivables, the extreme concentration in GFG Alliance, the invisible single point of failure in the insurance contract, and the political and regulatory fallout that followed.

A landmark case of structural liquidity risk hidden inside a trade finance label.

KEYWORDS

Greensill Capital collapse, Greensill trade finance, Credit Suisse Greensill funds, trade credit insurance failure, supply chain finance risk, GFG Alliance, future receivables financing