Financial Supply Chain

In the world of international trade, the process of exchanging payments, information and documents between buyers, sellers, banks, and other involved parties is becoming increasingly important for financial institutions. This community aims at presenting views and innovative ideas related to this financial supply chain space.

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

MasterCard and Basware Sunsetting Bank Payments?

Today’s announcement of a partnership between MasterCard and global B2B network Basware scores another point for the likely uptake of the B2B payment networks model—a model that I predicted in a recent blog post would come to the fore. The combination of B2B trade networks and payments infrastructures is clearly emerging as a paradigm that enabl...

25 September 2013

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Why are Physical and Financial Supply Chains out of Sync?

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 chain (PSC, or the flow of goods) has reached an extremely high level of electronic efficiency (e-efficiency), but the same cannot be said for the fi...

16 September 2013 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Banks and Supply Chain Finance: Something's Changed

I recently came across two announcements I believe deserve a comment. I wish to thank my colleague Nancy Atkinson for her precious contribution. Background news Metro Bank acquires SME Invoice Finance Metro Bank created a bank model that applied to physical branches the 24x7 internet accessibility paradigm. It started as a retail bank offering “alw...

08 August 2013 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

The EU Directive on Late Payments

The EU directive on Late Payments (2011/7/EU) is just around the corner. The new Directive will have to be transposed into national law by 16 March 2013 at the latest by all countries in the European Union. The provisions of the new directive include, among others: Public authorities will have to pay for the goods and services that they procure wi...

12 February 2013 /regulation /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Why is Supply Chain Finance so Slow to Grow?

There is no question that the principles of supply chain finance (SCF) are strong and that the correspondent benefits are considerable. The perspective to get financed on the basis of the client’s creditworthiness should line up multitudes of roaring companies demanding for such an attractive—and apparently low cost—facility. Yet, reality shows th...

24 January 2013 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

2013: The year of execution for Supply Chain Finance

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 empower their corporate counterparty (e.g., the treasurer) while creating conditions to generate volumes for revenue growth. Transaction banking must giv...

15 December 2012 /wholesale

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Trade and cash management connection a key corporate concern

Although advances have been made in global trade operational efficiencies, supply chain extensions across the world have led to increased financial impact for corporations, ultimately driving the banks to look to provide the benefits that merging cash and trade can provide. Within the bank, the trade person’s transaction base and documentary expe...

30 October 2012 /payments /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Sizing the Reverse Factoring market

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.e., NA, Asia, ANZ, Africa, South America) European Very large bank (e.g., Deutsche Bank, RBS, Santander, BNP): average of 30 deals/year with 30m $US...

20 September 2012 /sibos /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

First Attempts to Size the SCF Market

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 in the public domain. The receivables financing segment including factoring, invoice discounting and receivables finance in all its forms remains the...

27 August 2012 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Supply Chain Finance preferred definition

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 instruments, practices and technologies to optimise the working capital tied up in supply chain processes and to improve liquidity management for collabor...

21 August 2012 /wholesale