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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...
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...
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 eve...
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 ...
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 r...
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 deliverin...
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 B...
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 ...
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 ...
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-Commi...
Wow, SIBOS, the 20+ year brainchild of SWIFT is upon us again! There is no event that excites me like SIBOS. I have been to 11 of the last 13 SIBOS's and sad to say that I will be missing this yea...
Can cash and trade get along? How can corporations benefit and how can banks deliver the benefits? A much talked about subject in the industry is the convergence of cash and trade within the bank. Th...