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In 2013 banks will concentrate on producing results after the period of evaluation and investments in areas like SCF, Regulatory compliance, SEPA, integration of cash and trade. Banks will work to emp...
To build an estimate of this market I am using the below assumptions. I will limit so far the exposure for Europe to collect you suggestions/comments. I have similar data also for the other regions (i...
The SCF market is still evolving - it is a competitive business and business undertaken is covered by customer/bank confidentiality and therefore sources of information are constrained and not widely...
Transaction banking—the set of instruments and services that a bank offers to trading partners to financially support their reciprocal exchanges of goods (e.g., trade), monetary flows (e.g., cash), or...
This very short blog post is to share with you the definition for SCF that I have come up with after a considerable amount of research on the subject: Supply Chain Finance is the use of financial inst...
I have come to the conclusion that readers want to get straight to the point when they read blog articles. Therefore I will outline my opinions in a series of short sentences that should facilitate re...
To understand how Transaction Banking (TB) will evolve there's no need for crystal balls. Just look at what's happening in the procurement departments of the corporate world, and you get a sense of it...
Overview At present, the limited selection of software that automates supply chain finance (SCF) arrangements tends to be bank-centric. That is, if you want to use software to access a given bank’s SC...
I see a change in the way supply chain finance (SCF) is being perceived in the market. I still have to form myself a more structured opinion so I'll just jot down my thoughts as they come. "Old&q...
I’d like to share with the community the most significant trends in wholesale banking my analyst colleagues and I are anticipating for 2012. The years following the 2008 financial crisis were challeng...
The Euro Crisis and Supply Chain Finance: New Players Enter the Game Synopsis In recent years, a new breed of non-bank players has emerged in the European Supply Chain Finance (SCF) marketplace, offer...
Happy 2012. In this second part of my post I will address other points that make the experience of B2B solution providers so relevant to those financial institutions involved in developing global tran...