Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Banks have traditionally managed trade finance as a paper-intensive practice. While internet-based technologies have made giant steps into banks' departments, trade finance has long remained anchored at "business as usual." Something, however, is changing here, as corporate clients are pushing for more efficient and transparent operation...
13 April 2019 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Banks struggle to balance two imperatives: to open their systems to external partners and clients via application programming interfaces (APIs) and to control the user interaction. In order to maintain the direct and captive relationship with their corporate clients, banks are building their own API-based catalogs with high walls separating them f...
21 March 2019 /wholesale API
Request for Proposal, Purchase Order, Sales Order, Advanced Shipping Notice, Bill of Lading. In blockchain a simple token is enough.
27 December 2018 Blockchain Observations
A growing number of posts and articles describe how blockchain impacts supply chain operations. This is all but good news for a technology that was doomed to be the exclusive domain of cryptocurrencies. I note, however, that the overarching message that blockchain serves supply chain management operations to avoid counterfeiting or food sophisticat...
01 December 2018 Blockchain Observations
<<Do we really need this blockchain? From what we see from current projects it looks like we could do the same with the technologies already in use.>> I get these and other objections from entrepreneurs and managers (either from companies or banks) in my daily work of Blockchain Management Outsourcing. The questions are legitimate and t...
25 November 2018 Blockchain Observations
Heads of corporate treasury are crossing paths with digital transformation, a revolution that already started with the advent of the internet and one that is now shaping the world of business and the lives of individuals. Corporate treasurers are increasing their role as information stewards to company decision-makers, and one of the most difficul...
09 November 2018 /wholesale Treasury Management
Collaboration is a key business enabler and parties decide to collaborate if: There is a business objective that cannot be achieved individually. There is value for all parties in reaching the objective. Parties acknowledge that the resulting value must be shared. Each party is driven by economical behavior and spends the least to achieve the m
23 September 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
Blockchain technology is finding barriers to acceptance among global corporate institutions. Lack of trust among users represents one of the biggest hurdles to full acceptance. So what? The real problem is that blockchain-based applications make transactions immutable; hence, corporate users feel they will never be able to rectify mistakes, or, wor...
04 September 2018 Blockchain Observations
The value of blockchain is shaping up: an infrastructure layer that enables companies to turn goods into tokens and then trade and settle them. All of this without changing any of the company’s current information management systems. Blockchain becomes a shared “dropbox” in which all parties trust the validity of the data stored in this virtual dri...
04 August 2018 Blockchain Observations
This article summarizes the most recent use cases developed by Network Partners of the NdT Community. Although they operate in very different industrial sectors, all the Partners have the same objective of giving concrete form to blockchain projects after having "put their nose" in the technology. All these use cases will be presented by ...
10 June 2018 Blockchain Observations
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