Financial Supply Chain

In the world of international trade, the process of exchanging payments, information and documents between buyers, sellers, banks, and other involved parties is becoming increasingly important for financial institutions. This community aims at presenting views and innovative ideas related to this financial supply chain space.

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Blockchain a rose by any other name

The question of what exactly is blockchain has come to the fore this week with the publication of the eBook ‘Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: Rewiring Business Operations for the Digital Age’ which acknowledged ‘blockchain is difficult to pin down … it is a class of software composed of other technologies’. The blockchain is a secure, transparent, l...

10 April 2017

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Blockchain: Going Dutch

It is 417 years this April since the Dutch arrived in Japan with their black ships. Trade with Japan was opened up and, as they say, the rest is history. The Dutch are about to make history again. The first collaborative blockchain application looks set to be rolled out this year. The deployment is in trade finance and the Dutch are working with ...

03 April 2017 /payments

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3 Ways Payment Providers Can Optimize Your Ecommerce Revenue

Global E-commerce growth continues to outpace the entire retail sector. In 2016, eMarketer research estimates that total sales were worth around $1.9 trillion, up 6 percent from the previous year. Despite economic uncertainty in the US and Europe, lower oil prices and negative currency movements, E-commerce sales for the Holiday Season - November a...

23 February 2017 /payments

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Blockchain in the Supply Chain: Building the IT Stack

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

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Applying Blockchain Technology to Trade Finance

In considering practical applications for Blockchain for banking processes, one of the specific areas that is in dire need of this type of technology is trade finance. Long reliant on complex banking correspondent relationships, the issuing and tracking of documentary letters of credit, and prone to the risks of delivery of payment and goods on a ...

19 September 2016 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Why Supply Chain Finance -Still- Keeps Bankers Up at Night

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

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Blockchain in the 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

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Blockchain in the Supply Chain

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

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Digitisation: the key to distributed ledger and SWIFT BPO

What cloud has done for infrastructure, platform and software block chain will do for transactions and settlement. I am talking about the turning point in technology. In global business the two aspects that makes transactions and settlement a nightmare is the time lag leading to reconciliation. Reconciliation in a way verifies for all parties the ...

17 February 2016

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Supply Chain Finance 2.0

Today the SCF market is established on the premises that risk is priced on the anchor buyer’s credit worthiness. This is what I would call SCF 1.0 I am however seeing signs of a significant shift where financial support will be assigned using innovative credit scoring techniques based on the borrowing company’s operational performance supplemented ...

10 June 2015