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Olivier Berthier CEO at Moneythor
There is an interesting piece on voxeu.org calling for a fair treatment of trade finance under the upcoming Basel III rules. A majority of practitioners view Basel II as unfairly and dangerously tough on Trade Finance in terms of capital requirements under the Standardised Approach, compared to the "one size fits all" approach of Basel I...
10 March 2010 /payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
The typical coffee machine chat with players and observers of the corporate banking world lately always seems to come back to the massive change over the past year and a half in how banks have brought their cash management, trade finance and indeed their payments businesses closer together. There are significant similarities and synergies between...
09 July 2009 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
... as a saviour or a culprit? For years, trade finance has quietly gone about its own business providing the essential oil that keeps the cogs of commerce turning. It was never a dinner party topic and few people outside the industry had even considered it, until excessive lending and the ensuing credit crunch has thrust trade finance into the li...
10 December 2008 /payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Let's remind ourselves, the SWIFTNet Trade Services Utility (TSU) is the result of an initiative started by the banks. The SWIFT Board and twelve banks, among them some of the most international and influential players in the trade services space, decided in late 2002 to form the Trade Services Advisory Group (TSAG) and work on a solution that wou...
03 September 2007 /sibos /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
The developing world and its booming Trade activities still remain very keen on traditional instruments such as the Letter of Credit (LC) and will most likely be for years to come. Even in the US, arguably one of the most prominent countries in the world in terms of their use of open account business, a recent survey by Bank of America of US manufa...
22 June 2007 /payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Forget about trade services, trade finance, UCPs and documentary credit, what we all do now is called Financial Supply Chain (or SCF for Supply Chain Finance). How many "Heads of" have we seen lately with freshly updated business cards showing new supply chain-related titles? A lot! Revolution or Evolution? Well, the notion of financial s...
30 May 2007 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
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