1026 Results from /wholesale
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
I thought I'd post again this article after the recent outage... Large corporations are today cash rich and their treasurers are accountable for utilizing at best those assets. Preservation of capital rather than pure yield gauges the success of corporate treasurers’ decisions. These objectives and constraints are not so dissimilar from what weal...
30 October 2013 /wholesale Treasury Management
Large corporations are today cash rich and their treasurers are accountable for utilizing at best those assets. Preservation of capital rather than pure yield gauges the success of corporate treasurers’ decisions. These objectives and constraints are not so dissimilar from what wealth managers experience when servicing at best their clients. I ant...
24 October 2013 /wholesale Treasury Management
Retired Member
There’s change afoot for the transaction banking industry. Banks are aiming to grow their share of this profitable market. They’re searching for new ways to differentiate themselves and become the provider of choice for corporate customers. With customer centricity high up the agenda, banks are shifting their approach. By enhancing corporates’ ex...
22 October 2013 /wholesale
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
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 risk manageable. This has given Transaction Banking (Cash, Trade, FX and Payments) the opportunity to move into the top suite of the banking hotel. Th...
10 October 2013 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
In May 2012, giant German ERP vendor SAP acquired Ariba, a sourcing strategy and B2B network provider (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/sap-agrees-to-acquire-ariba-for-4-5-billion/?_r=0). Since then, SAP and Ariba have actively deployed solutions in the financial services domain, including SAP’s Financial Services Network (FSN), the connecti...
08 October 2013 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Housing for the urban poor has been one of the most contentious issue plaguing our countries policymakers post-independence. India could be the only country with the dubious distinction of treating purchase of a property under construction from a developer as 1) Transfer of property attracting stamp duty (2) as sale of goods under VAT rules and (3)...
05 October 2013 /wholesale
Commercial banks in India have long assumed an important role in funding infrastructure SPV’s but had their exposures limited on account of asset liability mismatch, narrowing interest margins, inadequate capital and redistribution of risk associated to other funding entities. The problem is more profound at the initial underwriting stages were ba...
03 October 2013 /wholesale
On 15th September 2008, Lehman Brothers declared itself bankrupt. In one of the most dramatic events of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, the 160-year old institution collapsed due to its exposure to subprime mortgages. After Lehman's failure, financial markets entered a period of unprecedented volatility and governments spent trillions of do...
03 October 2013 /retail /wholesale
Banks are in the business of taking risks. Lending inherently carries the risk of default. No wonder, a corporate customer’s credit risk is a function of its probability of default. Lower the default probability, higher the credit/risk grade. Banking history is replete with instances of a large corporate/group, defaulting on the facilities to the b...
27 September 2013 /wholesale
To clarify the reason of this rather naive post, banks are not lending to small companies because the risk perceived is too high. However, the way banks assess risk is mainly based on financial data and on some basic overview of operational performance. If banks were instead capable of having statistics on a company's performance throughout the en...
26 September 2013 /regulation /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
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