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Chris Principe

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APB, Inc.

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The Starving of SMEs

The Starving of SMEs Like many of my industry colleagues, I have been passionate about the financing of SMEs, who are the true lifeblood of global trade. Banks, like most businesses, only have time and resources to service the top 15% of their base where the large percent of their revenue comes from. In recent year's many of the regulatory conc...

02 December 2013 Innovation in Financial Services

Whales need Plankton!

Whales need Plankton! There are banks today that are expanding their trade business with additional supply chain financing activates and many more considering adding SCF. The results for them are good with their best corporate clients taking advantage of these added services. Unfortunately, the supply chain financing services are not being offered...

26 November 2013 Innovation in Financial Services

Trick or Trade !

Trick or Trade ! Halloween is really one of my favorite times of year, with the kids in costume and the free chocolate, what's not to like. Thinking and planning this morning the strategy for this evenings Trick or Treat rounds, it dawned on me who in our industry is playing Trick or Trade? So, with a little help from my friendly Zombies and Teenw...

31 October 2013 Innovation in Financial Services

Putting Out vs Putting In

Putting Out vs Putting In The ideas of Putting Out Software versus Putting In Software are two radically different approaches and goals. Especially for financial software; the difference is the banks internal needs to the software vendor's external goals. So let me be clear; Bankers Put Software IN and Vendors Put Software OUT, got it. There is a m...

30 October 2013 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services

Transaction Banking - The Suite Life

Transaction Banking - The Suite Life: Since the financial crisis bank management has given high priority, attention and investment to fee generation businesses and fee generation business that are risk manageable. This has given Transaction Banking (Cash, Trade, FX and Payments) the opportunity to move into the top suite of the banking hotel. Th...

10 October 2013 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services

Cash and Trade - Like Mixing Apples and Oranges

Cash and Trade - Like Mixing Apples with Oranges There has been much written regarding the convergence of cash and trade to benefit the banks’ corporate clients. The benefits are real, banks delivering cash and trade has not been real. The corporate CFOs are challenged with a never ending quest of optimizing their capital. Over the last few decades...

03 October 2013 Innovation in Financial Services

Big Trade - Big Data

Big Trade - Big Data At SIBOS this week people were shouting about “Big Data, Big Data" https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=8175 It made me think what about trade? – What about Big Data in Trade? - but how do you use it when you get it? Bankers in trade mostly get it right, trade has done really well at tracking and checking...

19 September 2013 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services

Customer Care, YES! - Customer Service, NO!

Customer Care, YES! - Customer Service, NO! Yes, you heard me right, Customer Care, if you are not doing this then you are falling behind. The old view of Customer Service, which was difficult to get right, is based on a totally reactive way of managing your customers; needs replacing. Customer Care is a proactive approach for anticipating your cl...

18 September 2013 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services

The Golden Age of Trade

Global Trade has never NOT had a Golden Age ... Trade is the driver behind everything that happens and the reason why it happens. Trade is the reason that people have expanded across the globe. Trade is the reason that new innovations happen and then are spread to everyone. Trade is the motivation for acquiring knowledge and with it wealth. Throug...

16 September 2013 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services

The downstream BPO business - a new type of model?

One of the big buzzes around Sibos this year has been the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) and the new ICC Uniform Rules for BPO (URBPO) released this April. (http://www.iccwbo.org/About-ICC/Policy-Commissions/Banking/Task-forces/Bank-Payment-Obligation-(BPO)/) It seems everyone was holding their breath for the dropping of the rule book, as if the gi...