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Olivier Berthier

Cash, Trade and the new customer stickiness

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...

09 Jul 2009
Financial Supply Chain
Olivier Berthier

Trade Finance sneaking back into the limelight

... 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 a...

10 Dec 2008
Financial Supply Chain
Olivier Berthier

Oh, that's what we can do with the TSU!

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 i...

03 Sep 2007
Financial Supply Chain
Olivier Berthier

The LC is dead. No, just kidding.

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, arg...

22 Jun 2007
Financial Supply Chain
Olivier Berthier

Buzzword alert: 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 se...

30 May 2007
Financial Supply Chain

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