SME Access to Liquidity

Overview
A practical session on improving SME cashflow

What to expect

Join Daniel Cotti (LEMI) and the Digital Trade Testbed team for a practical session on improving SME cashflow including how businesses can get paid sooner and strengthen working capital using digital promissory notes and related approaches. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of how liquidity solutions can fit into real trade and invoicing workflows, and what evidence/assurance can make finance decisions easier and faster.


Why attend:

If cashflow pressure is limiting growth, this session focuses on concrete mechanisms that can help SMEs unlock liquidity without waiting on long payment cycles.



About The Speaker

Daniel Cotti (LEMI)

Daniel Cotti is a highly experienced trade finance and fintech leader with 35+ years in global banking and 10+ years in digital trade, having held senior roles across major banks, fintech platforms, standards initiatives, and advisory businesses focused on modernising trade and treasury infrastructure.



About the Digital Trade Testbed

This session forms part of the Teesside Digital Trade Testbed Project, a real-world environment at Teesside International Airport where businesses can explore, test and improve how they trade internationally.

It provides the opportunity to see what better; more efficient trade processes look like in practice and how they can work across real supply chains.

Digital Trade Accelerator

The Digital Trade Accelerator forms part of the digitalisation of export efforts by helping businesses apply these improvements to their own operations. Through one-to-one support and diagnostics, businesses can review their current export processes, identify where time, cost and risk build up and make practical changes to documentation, workflows and compliance. It is designed to reduce admin, avoid common errors and create a more consistent, repeatable approach to exporting.

For more information regarding the event or Digital Trade Testbed and Accelerator Programme, contact business@tees.ac.uk