Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
As soon as a bank places the corporate customer at the center of its delivery strategy, that bank has to follow the peculiar business dynamics that influence and shape the corporate client’s business decisions. Almost any business decision has an impact on the supply chain, and in a globalized world, supply chain collaboration is one of the most h...
23 June 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
I have posted a long document on Linkedin (Applying Blockchain in the Supply Chain) describing which blockchain features best apply to the Supply Chain process elements below. I wish I could post it here on Finextra but I cannot include charts that are integral part of the document. Hope you will enjoy the reading. Supply Chain Processes Affected...
06 June 2017 Financial Supply Chain
Recent announcements from R3 warn banks to carefully watch blockchain as long as the technology remains immature. This comes at a time in which blockchain-based initiatives see financial institutions taking the driver’s seat. The path to blockchain maturity demands the guiding role of bank industry independent associations, exactly what R3 is. Thi...
07 March 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
Although banks may appear slow to react and less agile than emerging fintech companies, banks remain their corporate clients’ main point of reference for technology innovation and inclusion. Even many leading corporations don’t want to be the pioneers in something that is not part of their core business and keep a wait-and-see attitude toward fint...
22 February 2017 /wholesale Transaction Banking
I am trying to validate my assumption that while European banks are today working to comply with PSD2 regulatory requirements, they will move in the next two years from a payment-centric API strategy to a wider transaction banking-based API strategy, meaning that they could open APIs to fintech partners that connect to their cash, liquidity, trade...
30 January 2017 Transaction Banking
Blockchain-based applications developed by SCtech (pronounced “skytech”) players (i.e., software vendors dedicated to developing blockchain-based applications for supply chain management) are dispersed across diverse supply chain (SC) processes: document management, traceability, provenance, and finance. They are currently engaged in proof-of-conc...
17 November 2016 Financial Supply Chain
Global Supply chain finance’s (SCF’s) original value proposition is to facilitate access to finance by arbitraging an “anchor” buyer’s lower funding costs on selected suppliers’ behalf. This principle of SCF would lead one to believe that almost all existing SCF programs are running with strong credit-rated buyers. In this report, Aite Group uncov...
22 May 2016 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
This paper assesses to what degree blockchain technology is part of corporate supply chain management practitioners’ domain expertise, as well as if there is any useful impact of blockchain-based applications on supply chain processes. A significant roadblock is, however, the extremely poor understanding corporate people have about blockchain. The...
13 May 2016 Financial Supply Chain
My grandmother likes to stay informed and recently told me: << I read on the magazine a few days ago about something called “blockchain”. Everybody seems to have fallen in love with it so it must be something important. Unfortunately the article was full of technical jargon and I could not understand a thing. Do you know what it is? >>...
18 March 2016 /payments Transaction Banking
I am lining up the key characteristics/enablers that I believe make blockchain valuable to supply chain and trade. Next step will be to map these characteristics/enablers with supply chain and trade processes to appreciate whether blockchain-based solutions are the right fit. Perhaps you may want to comments/ amend/ add? These are the characteri...
03 March 2016 Financial Supply Chain
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