64 Results from 2012, /wholesale
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
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 Financial Supply Chain
Retired Member
Every crisis is an opportunity in disguise. The recent financial crisis was no different. Prior to the crisis, the treasury department was as an offshoot of the accounting department. Post crisis, the treasurer has assumed a more strategic role, moving beyond managing working capital to becoming involved in risk management across the organisation,...
14 December 2012 /wholesale
At SIBOS earlier this year, sales force automation (SFA) was a recurring issue, as banks are finding themselves under increasing pressure to improve customer service interactions whilst remaining cost efficient. While discussing these challenges, it became clear that SFA is going to play a much bigger role in the future of banking and how banks a...
11 December 2012 /retail /wholesale
With Asian economies booming, smart banks are capitalising on opportunities to boost their trade finance business. But how do financial institutions from the developed world ensure market share? If they are too slow to act, they may be left with the crumbs rather than a representative share of the trade finance pie. To start with banks must be sur...
28 November 2012 /sibos /wholesale
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
The enormity of global trade is on display this year in Osaka, and it is more evident than ever that payments and trade finance are critical banking services supporting global economic growth. Each day participants navigate from hotels across the massive Kansai economic region of Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe-Nara to the INTEX conference center. On they way, we...
31 October 2012 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
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 Financial Supply Chain
Innovating to address the ever evolving needs of the customer will always be a matter of importance to banks, as they strive to deliver new services both faster and competitively priced. However, delivering robust transaction banking capabilities is fundamentally key for financial institutions to maintain a stable and sustainable business on behal...
30 October 2012 /payments /wholesale
Anish Kanayi Consultant at IT Industry
The call for sustainable banking has been answered by banks in various innovative ways - transformed processes, novel products and channels, fresh policies. With the active support of technology solutions, banks are seen gradually turning to sustainable banking (a)Process innovation There are various organizational initiatives like the UNEP-FI a...
29 October 2012 /retail /wholesale
After years of speculation, this week in Osaka we finally appear to have a SIBOS with a SEPA conversation worth having. With the date for compliance across the Eurozone now set for February 2014, we are beginning to see a move by corporates to start to adopt SEPA standards. The business case for migrating ahead of the 2014 date has always been a ...
29 October 2012 /sibos /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
I have never known ethics to be talked about so much as in the last year or two and we all know why. However, I was intrigued the other day when the Chartered Institute of Investment Services (CISI) (of which I am a founder member having been grandfathered in through my Stock Exchange membership) sent me an email stating that from next year all me...
24 October 2012 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
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