Australian banker Lex Greensill’s Greensill Capital, a start-up that provided short-term cash advances and spun off its loans into bond-like securities has filed for insolvency protection. This after bondholders Credit Suisse stopped investors from moving money in or out of $10bn in supply-chain investment funds when Greensill lost coverage from credit insurers. Backers such as German municipalities and Japan’s SoftBank stand to lose billions. Now South Africa’s Barak Fund, which has a strikingly similar business model to Greensill, is crumbling too, according to the Bloomberg article below. – Melani Nathan Another trade finance fund implodes in echoes of Greensill