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This is just a placeholder for a topic I will be developing in 2015. A supply chain bank (SCB) is a financial institution that aims to provide financial support to groups of companies that belong to a...
The treasury management systems (TMS) business is in a constant state of flux – what is top priority today may be outdated tomorrow. Although this change can be very difficult to predict I took the ri...
Introduction Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction or connectivity, from any other person in the world, so that a chai...
This is a very short note I felt compelled write to share my sense of frustration. I am a strong believer in the Peer-to-Peer concept and business models. However I see an indiscriminate use of the &q...
As an Italian living in Monza, Formula One is sort of a lifestyle. The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running and most important racing events of the kind, having been held at the course of ...
Yesterday, SAP announced that all transactions of its Ariba Network—a business-to-business community of hundreds of thousands trading partners—will be shifted to HANA, its new in-memory platform for ...
When I wrote my comment to a previous announcement about the KYC registry I did not want to do the bird of ill omen to SWIFT although all planets seem aligning to put the bank cooperative into a corn...
Two very recent announcements from SWIFT and KYC Exchange represent the first concrete answers to growing market demand for a common and global repository for Know Your Customer (KYC) information. I...
After the drumming and roaring of the acquisition announcement I haven’t seen or heard anything significant so far. True is that the companies are now working out the hard task of integrating cultures...
This article was first published on gtnews. Corporate treasurers and their use of treasury management systems Corporate treasurers fully agree they can (and must) count more in their company. The fina...
I thought I'd post again this article after the recent outage... Large corporations are today cash rich and their treasurers are accountable for utilizing at best those assets. Preservation of capit...
Large corporations are today cash rich and their treasurers are accountable for utilizing at best those assets. Preservation of capital rather than pure yield gauges the success of corporate treasurer...