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Banks struggle to balance two imperatives: to open their systems to external partners and clients via application programming interfaces (APIs) and to control the user interaction. In order to maintai...
Heads of corporate treasury are crossing paths with digital transformation, a revolution that already started with the advent of the internet and one that is now shaping the world of business and the ...
The speed at which blockchain-based applications are evolving beyond pure financial transactions must not induce banks to mistakenly think that the business is running out of their hands. On the contr...
Banks will profile corporate credit risk blending financial indicators with supply chain performance metrics. This point represents the hinge that will connect corporate supply chain process data with...
Although banks may appear slow to react and less agile than emerging fintech companies, banks remain their corporate clients’ main point of reference for technology innovation and inclusion. Even many...
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...
As an Italian living in Monza, Formula One is sort of a lifestyle. The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running and most important racing events of the kind, having been held at the course of ...
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 capit...
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 treasurer...
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...
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 a...
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...