Case Study: BBVA x MTA
How Fence unlocked daily-repayment efficiency and real-time debt operations for My Triple A (MTA) and BBVA
The Deal
€7.5m senior tranche in an asset-backed revolving facility
The Capital provider
BBVA Spark - BBVA’s unit traditionally focused on Venture Debt, Growth Debt and Commercial Banking, now developing warehouse financing capabilities in partnership with Fence. Spark targets scalable, innovative technology-enabled high growth businesses
The Borrower
My Triple A - MTA is a fast-growing working-capital platform that purchases short-duration trade receivables from European SMEs, generating high-volume, low-ticket invoices that require daily settlement
What MTA gained
€25,000 in direct savings thanks to automated daily repayments (≈ €2,750/month) rather than monthly sweeps
Real-time visibility into repayment, LTV and borrowing-base metrics—no more waiting for month-end spreadsheets
Zero-touch debt ops: full integration with MTA’s internal tools translates into facility management without Tech support
Faster deal negotiation: Fence’s structuring approach Credit Agreement discussions and reduced legal back-and-forth
No need to build a DCM team—Fence automates waterfall calculations, eligibility checks and investor reporting with minimal MTA involvement
What BBVA gained
Code-enforced covenants and automatic daily cash sweeps gave BBVA real-time risk control and executional certainty
80 %+ reduction in back-office effort (payments, reconciliation, report generation) versus a manual setup
Capital efficiency: instant waterfall distributions and daily amortisation minimise undrawn balances
The Challenge
MTA's fast turnover requirement
MTA’s underlying receivables turn over in weeks. Traditional monthly repayment schedules would have created high equity consumption, unnecessary idle capital and dragged on returns.
Complex operational setup and covenant stack
The borrowing base adjusts dynamically with collateral performance (LTV triggers, concentration limits, eligibility waterfalls). Manual Excel tracking would have been error-prone and resource-intensive.
Lean operations
MTA needed to scale without hiring a full Debt Capital Markets function or building internal tooling to operate this facility.
The Solution
Fence enabled and automated the asset-backed revolving credit facility
Step | Automation highlight |
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Digital Credit Agreement | All covenants encoded in platform; BBVA sees real-time compliance |
API integration | Fence ingests MTA’s receivable data directly from its internal system; no batch files |
Dynamic borrowing base | Eligibility, LTV and concentration checks recomputed every time new receivables are posted |
Daily repayment engine | Smart contracts initiate repayment daily, €25k savings through daily amortization vs. monthly schedule |
Instant reporting | Covenant dashboards and investor packs generated on-demand; auditors receive read-only access |
The Results
MTA and BBVA achieved unprecedented results, unlocked by the power of Fence's technology
Metric | Pre-Fence | Post-Fence |
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Cash idle between sweeps | 30 days | 0–1 day |
Interest expense | Baseline | -€25k / year in savings |
Back-office hours / month | ~40 h | <5 h |
Time to generate BBVA reports | ~2 days / month | Real-time, automated report generation |