Join the Community

21,562
Expert opinions
43,655
Total members
401
New members (last 30 days)
141
New opinions (last 30 days)
28,548
Total comments

Latest expert opinions

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

2013: The year of execution for Supply Chain Finance

In 2013 banks will concentrate on producing results after the period of evaluation and investments in areas like SCF, Regulatory compliance, SEPA, integration of cash and trade. Banks will work to empower their corporate counterparty (e.g., the treasurer) while creating conditions to generate volumes for revenue growth. Transaction banking must giv...

/wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Sizing the Reverse Factoring market

To build an estimate of this market I am using the below assumptions. I will limit so far the exposure for Europe to collect you suggestions/comments. I have similar data also for the other regions (i.e., NA, Asia, ANZ, Africa, South America) European Very large bank (e.g., Deutsche Bank, RBS, Santander, BNP): average of 30 deals/year with 30m $US...

/sibos /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

First Attempts to Size the SCF Market

The SCF market is still evolving - it is a competitive business and business undertaken is covered by customer/bank confidentiality and therefore sources of information are constrained and not widely in the public domain. The receivables financing segment including factoring, invoice discounting and receivables finance in all its forms remains the...

/wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Transaction Banking in Europe: The Changing Landscape

Transaction banking—the set of instruments and services that a bank offers to trading partners to financially support their reciprocal exchanges of goods (e.g., trade), monetary flows (e.g., cash), or commercial papers (e.g., securities)—tracks financial instruments through their entire lifecycle. In a stressed economy, tracking financial instrume...

/wholesale Transaction Banking

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Supply Chain Finance preferred definition

This very short blog post is to share with you the definition for SCF that I have come up with after a considerable amount of research on the subject: Supply Chain Finance is the use of financial instruments, practices and technologies to optimise the working capital tied up in supply chain processes and to improve liquidity management for collabor...

/wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

New frontiers for Transaction Banking IT

I have come to the conclusion that readers want to get straight to the point when they read blog articles. Therefore I will outline my opinions in a series of short sentences that should facilitate reading and highlight the relevant points for discussion. If—instead—I am wrong with this assumption just let me know and I’ll turn to a more “orthodox...

/wholesale Transaction Banking

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

The future of transaction banking? Not a secret

To understand how Transaction Banking (TB) will evolve there's no need for crystal balls. Just look at what's happening in the procurement departments of the corporate world, and you get a sense of it. I recently attended a presentation showing the likely evolution of the role of a corporate procurement department. It follows a lifecycle roadmap w...

/payments /wholesale Transaction Banking

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

The Next Generation: Bringing Supply Chain Finance into TMS

Overview At present, the limited selection of software that automates supply chain finance (SCF) arrangements tends to be bank-centric. That is, if you want to use software to access a given bank’s SCF credit facilities you must use the software offered by that bank — software that typically comes with a variety of non-banking functionality such a...

/wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

A Paradigm Shift in Supply Chain Finance

I see a change in the way supply chain finance (SCF) is being perceived in the market. I still have to form myself a more structured opinion so I'll just jot down my thoughts as they come. "Old" SCF: Basically the management of cash and capital to support the execution of supply chain processes (e.g., delivery of the goods). "New&quo...

/payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

What Will Happen in Wholesale Banking

I’d like to share with the community the most significant trends in wholesale banking my analyst colleagues and I are anticipating for 2012. The years following the 2008 financial crisis were challenging, and 2011 proved to be a continuation of that trend. While my analyst colleagues and I were optimistic at the start of 2011 that the year would br...

/payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Now Hiring