Financial Supply Chain

In the world of international trade, the process of exchanging payments, information and documents between buyers, sellers, banks, and other involved parties is becoming increasingly important for financial institutions. This community aims at presenting views and innovative ideas related to this financial supply chain space.

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Signs of hope on late payments?

Across multiple industries, the issue of late payment is often a cause for concern. In the retail trade in particular, headlines featuring struggling small businesses and lengthy delays are a regular occurrence. We welcome the news of prompt payments to SMEs, such as that seen recently by Asda. The supermarket giant has announced it is putting sm

11 July 2017 /payments /inclusion

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Applying Blockchain in the Supply Chain

I have posted a long document on Linkedin (Applying Blockchain in the Supply Chain) describing which blockchain features best apply to the Supply Chain process elements below. I wish I could post it here on Finextra but I cannot include charts that are integral part of the document. Hope you will enjoy the reading. Supply Chain Processes Affected...

06 June 2017

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Seven ways to boost supply chain resilience

Supply chain failures compromise the ability of an organisation to operate effectively and in extreme circumstances even to survive. Yet many businesses struggle to mitigate the risk of such failures: research from CIPS suggests fewer than half of procurement professionals consistently put strategies in place to counter supply chain dangers, while...

15 May 2017

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Treat Suppliers like Clients and Reap the Benefits

Most organisations strive to be on the best possible terms with their clients but too often neglect with third parties that contribute to the success of their business. The nature of buyer and supplier relations often pits the two parties against each other – the buyer wants to hold onto its cash for as long as possible, while the seller wants its ...

11 May 2017 /payments

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Blockchain a rose by any other name

The question of what exactly is blockchain has come to the fore this week with the publication of the eBook ‘Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: Rewiring Business Operations for the Digital Age’ which acknowledged ‘blockchain is difficult to pin down … it is a class of software composed of other technologies’. The blockchain is a secure, transparent, l...

10 April 2017

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Blockchain: Going Dutch

It is 417 years this April since the Dutch arrived in Japan with their black ships. Trade with Japan was opened up and, as they say, the rest is history. The Dutch are about to make history again. The first collaborative blockchain application looks set to be rolled out this year. The deployment is in trade finance and the Dutch are working with ...

03 April 2017 /payments

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3 Ways Payment Providers Can Optimize Your Ecommerce Revenue

Global E-commerce growth continues to outpace the entire retail sector. In 2016, eMarketer research estimates that total sales were worth around $1.9 trillion, up 6 percent from the previous year. Despite economic uncertainty in the US and Europe, lower oil prices and negative currency movements, E-commerce sales for the Holiday Season - November a...

23 February 2017 /payments

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Blockchain in the Supply Chain: Building the IT Stack

Blockchain-based applications developed by SCtech (pronounced “skytech”) players (i.e., software vendors dedicated to developing blockchain-based applications for supply chain management) are dispersed across diverse supply chain (SC) processes: document management, traceability, provenance, and finance. They are currently engaged in proof-of-conc...

17 November 2016

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Applying Blockchain Technology to Trade Finance

In considering practical applications for Blockchain for banking processes, one of the specific areas that is in dire need of this type of technology is trade finance. Long reliant on complex banking correspondent relationships, the issuing and tracking of documentary letters of credit, and prone to the risks of delivery of payment and goods on a ...

19 September 2016 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Why Supply Chain Finance -Still- Keeps Bankers Up at Night

Global Supply chain finance’s (SCF’s) original value proposition is to facilitate access to finance by arbitraging an “anchor” buyer’s lower funding costs on selected suppliers’ behalf. This principle of SCF would lead one to believe that almost all existing SCF programs are running with strong credit-rated buyers. In this report, Aite Group uncov...

22 May 2016 /wholesale