Riyadh | BETH

The Public Investment Fund has launched Tawreed Financial Solutions, a digital platform specializing in supply chain financing for companies in the Saudi market, after receiving authorization from the Saudi Central Bank to begin testing its operations within the regulatory sandbox.

Tawreed aims to connect buyers, suppliers and financing entities through a single platform, enabling companies to access financing solutions that help them manage liquidity, working capital and business expansion.

Among the platform’s key products is early payment of receivables against approved invoices, giving suppliers, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, faster access to liquidity instead of waiting through long payment cycles.

Financing Reaches the Supplier

The significance of Tawreed goes beyond adding a new financial platform.

The challenge facing many companies is not the absence of business, but the period between executing a contract and receiving payment.

This is where the platform comes in to shorten that gap. Instead of the supplier remaining dependent on delayed payment, it can obtain financing against approved receivables and continue operations, purchase materials and meet its obligations.

This turns the invoice from an amount waiting to be collected into a financing tool.

Banks Inside the Platform

Tawreed will allow registered local banks to access suppliers and companies on the platform, expanding financing opportunities, increasing competition among financing providers, and supporting the digitalization of trade and supply chains.

The company has already begun operations and signed binding agreements with Gulf International Bank – Saudi Arabia, Saudi National Bank, Banque Saudi Fransi, ROSHN Group, and Nesma & Partners.

Beyond Financing

The initiative aligns with the Public Investment Fund’s 2026–2030 strategy, which places financial services among the key enablers of its new economic ecosystems, while also increasing the participation of the private sector and local suppliers in PIF projects and portfolio companies.

The impact here is twofold:

The supplier gains faster access to liquidity.
The bank gains access to new financing opportunities.

Between the two, local supply chains become more resilient and companies gain greater capacity to execute contracts without liquidity gaps becoming an obstacle to growth.

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In major projects, the opportunity may exist and the contract may be in place, yet a company can still struggle because cash arrives late.

Tawreed targets this specific gap.

Its real value, therefore, will not be measured only by the number of invoices processed through the platform, but by its ability to turn PIF and private-sector projects into a faster liquidity cycle within the local economy.

The idea, in short:

The faster liquidity moves, the faster companies and supply chains can move with it.