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Enrico Camerinelli

Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach

Aite Group

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Tungsten Bought OB10: Now What?

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 and objectives. However something more substantial should be made clear by now. While waiting for things to happen I want to share a few thoughts on...

11 December 2013 Financial Supply Chain

Observations on EuroFinance 2013

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 financial crisis - now turned into economic crisis in many European countries - has elevated the corporate treasurer to the status of information steward ...

23 November 2013 /payments Treasury Management

The Corporate Treasurer Is The Wealth Manager Of The Company

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 capital rather than pure yield gauges the success of corporate treasurers’ decisions. These objectives and constraints are not so dissimilar from what weal...

30 October 2013 /wholesale Treasury Management

The Corporate Treasurer Is The Wealth Manager Of The Company

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 treasurers’ decisions. These objectives and constraints are not so dissimilar from what wealth managers experience when servicing at best their clients. I ant...

24 October 2013 /wholesale Treasury Management

SAP and Ariba: A marriage with no honeymoon?

In May 2012, giant German ERP vendor SAP acquired Ariba, a sourcing strategy and B2B network provider (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/sap-agrees-to-acquire-ariba-for-4-5-billion/?_r=0). Since then, SAP and Ariba have actively deployed solutions in the financial services domain, including SAP’s Financial Services Network (FSN), the connecti...

08 October 2013 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Actuarial Tables for Supply Chain Finance

To clarify the reason of this rather naive post, banks are not lending to small companies because the risk perceived is too high. However, the way banks assess risk is mainly based on financial data and on some basic overview of operational performance. If banks were instead capable of having statistics on a company's performance throughout the en...

26 September 2013 /regulation /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Bellin and SWIFT to Build a New Treasury Platform

Today, SWIFT and treasury systems vendor Bellin announced that they will implement a direct connection between SWIFT and Bellin’s tm5. Treasury intelligence management systems (TiMSs), a term coined by Aite Group in its 2011 report on the subject are platforms that will integrate and extend the operations-driven functionalities of a traditional tre...

25 September 2013 /payments /sibos Treasury Management

MasterCard and Basware Sunsetting Bank Payments?

Today’s announcement of a partnership between MasterCard and global B2B network Basware scores another point for the likely uptake of the B2B payment networks model—a model that I predicted in a recent blog post would come to the fore. The combination of B2B trade networks and payments infrastructures is clearly emerging as a paradigm that enabl...

25 September 2013 Financial Supply Chain

Why are Physical and Financial Supply Chains out of Sync?

I am sharing a summary of a recent lively debate on supply chains conducted on the ‘Supply Chain on SWIFT’ LinkedIn Group. The initial question raised on this online forum was why the physical supply chain (PSC, or the flow of goods) has reached an extremely high level of electronic efficiency (e-efficiency), but the same cannot be said for the fi...

16 September 2013 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Bottomline Opens New Market Scenario

My note refers to the recent news that Bottomline Technologies has bought Sterci and Simplex http://www.bottomline.co.uk/news/press_releases/bottomline-technologies-acquires-sterci-simplex.html This is my view: The announcement signs that in the messaging hubs space more niche and specialized vendors will be swallowed by large goliaths like Bottom...

27 August 2013 /payments Treasury Management