66 Results from 2013, /wholesale
Retired Member
The global financial crisis has made companies look at the area of liquidity management more closely. Companies are keen on having more operationally efficient accounts receivable (AR) processes. The development in the “Virtual accounts” space has shown that this tool offers better visibility, accuracy and automation required to optimize transacti...
09 August 2013 /wholesale
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
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 Financial Supply Chain
Patricia Hines Head of Corporate Banking at Celent
I recently published a blog post titled “International Expansion in Financial Services” discussing how banks are supporting the needs of multi-national companies through expansion into new geographies. Meeting the needs of demanding corporate clients in remote geographies can be challenging for global, national and regional banks. As banks follow ...
07 August 2013 /wholesale Transaction Banking
Well I may not have posted for such a long time but I have been receiving my Finextra every day and reading them. One of the good things about being ill is that it gives you time to read and reflect and also investigate some of the in-equalities that we in our modern day society take for granted! Lets choose something simple like “Banking” it’s so...
05 August 2013 /wholesale
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
There’s little doubt that the six-month FATCA compliance delay is a welcome reprieve for foreign financial institutions (FFIs) across the world. It comes at a time when FFIs were beginning to feel overwhelmed – not necessarily by the complexity of what they have to do to become FATCA compliant, but by how much they need to do. Financial institutio...
23 July 2013 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
The fragmented state of the banking industry and, arguably, the relatively conservative policies of the Indian banking regulator Reserve Bank of India, have kept the assets of Indian banks somewhat subdued compared to their global peers. Not surprisingly, league tables that use asset as the benchmark to rank banks have always been bereft of an ent...
22 July 2013 /retail /wholesale
Over the last few months alone, we’ve witnessed: the finalisation of FATCA, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, MiFID II rules, the proposal for an enhancement of existing money laundering rules in the form of the 4th EU Money Laundering Directive, the completion of Customer Due Diligence (CDD) rules by FinCEN in the US, and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FC...
09 July 2013 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
Corporates in advanced economies are accelerating their international expansion ambitions as they look to escape slow growth at home and expand abroad, looking to capture sales growth in geographies that are demonstrating GDP growth. In its April 2013 World Economic Outlook Update, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects 3.3% overall global ...
02 July 2013 /wholesale Transaction Banking
MiFID, the mother of all European financial regulation, rumbles on and on. The European Commission’s MiFID IIconsultation in 2011, the Ferber Report in March 2012, and the European Parliament vote in October 2012 were all highly anticipated and widely reported on. But despite the fact that the Council of Ministers has published more than 20 differ...
10 June 2013 /regulation /wholesale
Beneficial ownership is gaining significant exposure at the moment, with the UK intending to use its presidency of the G8 Leaders’ Summit next month to promote the improvement of international co-operation on tax evasion and push for greater transparency and accountability. As David Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, states, “… dealing with tax e...
28 May 2013 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
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