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Ifor Williams - Fundtech - London | 12/07/2012 | 1695 views

7 Ways to Optimise your Corporate Clients Liquidity

Access to liquidity and working capital management are top of the agenda for corporates in these testing times. Even though interest rates are at an all time low, Corporates are finding it difficult to readily access capital to assist them in their day-to-day operations. There are many ways a corporate can improve their cash liquidity and optimise... Tags: PaymentsGroup: Electronic invoicing

Ifor Williams - Fundtech - London | 07/03/2012 | 2829 views

7 Reasons Why E-Invoicing Is About Finance

Much of the debate on E-Invoicing has been about the obvious efficiency savings to be gained by automated electronic processes compared with manual paper based processes. Whilst E-Invoicing is a compelling proposition on its own - there are several levels of significant additional benefits that are there to be realized once an E-Invoicing service i... Group: Financial Supply Chain

Ifor Williams - Fundtech - London | 17/02/2012 | 2203 views

SMEs suffer because of missed Merlin targets

30% of UK SMEs have missed growth opportunities because they weren't able to access finance - Federation of Small Businesses There has been much coverage in the press this week about the failure of the UK banks to reach the lending targets agreed under “Project Merlin” back in February 2011. As part of the deal, the four main banks (Ba... Group: Financial Supply Chain

Ifor Williams - Fundtech - London | 03/02/2012 | 2515 views

New Supply Chain Financing Initiative from the EBA

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) has recently held the first meeting of Supply Chain Working Group (SCWG). The aim of this group is to build on the excellent work done by the E-Invoicing Working Group and take the concepts further to study the physical and financial supply chain models with a view of detailing how Supply Chain Finance (SCF) can ...

Ifor Williams - Fundtech - London | 10/10/2011 | 2993 views | 1 comment

Scarce credit throws e-invoicing in the spotlight

The limited availability of credit following the financial crisis coupled with the potential consequences of Basel III has resulted in a crunch on lending to corporates. Banks and corporates have become more attracted to financing opportunities linked to supply chain transactions. In a recent report, Celent even went as far as to ask whether supply... Tags: Payments, Sibos