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Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
What I find interesting of Ripple that I don't read much about is that it basically proposes a "uberization" of the banking system: What corporate users need are funds to make their payments, and those funds do not necessarily come from one bank. I just finished reading a quote from the CEO of DBS Bank that "in the future people wil...
27 January 2016 /payments Transaction Banking
These days blockchain is a blockbuster at banks. Financial institutions are spending time and resources to find how much business they can gain by adopting this new technology. This hype on the bank side might not correspond to similar interest from corporates. Nor it is clear whether it creates similar business opportunities for either side. My o...
25 November 2015 Transaction Banking
Today the SCF market is established on the premises that risk is priced on the anchor buyer’s credit worthiness. This is what I would call SCF 1.0 I am however seeing signs of a significant shift where financial support will be assigned using innovative credit scoring techniques based on the borrowing company’s operational performance supplemented ...
10 June 2015 Financial Supply Chain
A financial supply chain (FSC) is the sequence of business processes and technologies that connect monetary and financial flows with merchandise exchanged between trading partners—the physical supply chain (PSC). FSC processes are triggered by PSC events: A payment (i.e., FSC process) is initiated once goods are shipped and an invoice is issued. F...
28 May 2015 Financial Supply Chain
Strong supply chain management practices can reduce operating costs and help organizations control the costs of their logistics function. In many organizations executives are unaware that supply chain management is also a profit center. Once the right metrics are adopted, it is possible to gauge the impacts of supply chain management practices on ...
15 April 2015 Financial Supply Chain
This is just a placeholder for a topic I will be developing in 2015. A supply chain bank (SCB) is a financial institution that aims to provide financial support to groups of companies that belong to a common supply chain. The risk will be distributed across the group and will be transferred from the "anchor" to all participating trading ...
21 December 2014 Financial Supply Chain
The treasury management systems (TMS) business is in a constant state of flux – what is top priority today may be outdated tomorrow. Although this change can be very difficult to predict I took the risk of anticipating the most relevant trends I see for 2015 and in the incoming years (*). Trend 1: One-Stop-Shop At a global level, treasurers are ...
13 December 2014 /payments Treasury Management
Introduction Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction or connectivity, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. Paraphrasing this theory, this docu...
09 November 2014 Financial Supply Chain
This is a very short note I felt compelled write to share my sense of frustration. I am a strong believer in the Peer-to-Peer concept and business models. However I see an indiscriminate use of the "P2P" term for all sorts of solutions and offerings, with very little (to be generous) relation to the true objectives (and caveats) of P2P: ...
29 August 2014 /payments Transaction Banking
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 Monza ever since 1922. The Autodromo Nazionale Monza is located near the eclectic city of Milan, the most populous city in Italy. Milan is also the m...
14 July 2014 /wholesale Transaction Banking
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