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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.
First of all, credit where credit is due - the title concept is attributable to one of my colleagues, not me - thank you Howard! Yesterday evening we attended a lively Financial Services Club session ...
The subject of “Innovation in Financial Services” seems to highlight a real and present danger that many senior bankers are struggling with... i.e. how to achieve the “plumbing” and innovate simultane...
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Ann Cairns, at the Financial Services Club, giving her personal perspective on "Managing technology change in the financial services in...
Let's remind ourselves, the SWIFTNet Trade Services Utility (TSU) is the result of an initiative started by the banks. The SWIFT Board and twelve banks, among them some of the most international and i...
The developing world and its booming Trade activities still remain very keen on traditional instruments such as the Letter of Credit (LC) and will most likely be for years to come. Even in the US, arg...
Forget about trade services, trade finance, UCPs and documentary credit, what we all do now is called Financial Supply Chain (or SCF for Supply Chain Finance). How many "Heads of" have we se...