July 2013 4 Min Read
An Integrated Approach to Financial Supply Chain Efficiency by Oliver Klein, Corporate Banking, Sales Specialist, Sales Strategy International Business, Commerzbank AG Corporate banking products have become highly sophisticated and functionally rich over recent years, and...
July 2013 6 Min Read
April 17, 2013: The Start of a New Era in Global Supply Chain Finance? by Dr Sebastian Hölker, Head of Global Innovative Trade Products, UniCredit Recently, a German newspaper published an article about innovations in payments. It started with the provocative assertion...
July 2013 6 Min Read
Lessons from Corporate Supply Chain Finance Implementations by Martin Böhme, Senior Manager, PwC Belgium While supply chain finance is currently a very popular solution for many European corporates, its implementation provides many hurdles far beyond the typical scope...
July 2013 29 Min Read
Forging New Links? A Research Review of Progress in the International Supply Chain Finance Market by Phillip Kerle, Chief Executive Officer, Demica As relationship business lending by banks continues to contract in many parts of the world, companies are looking for...
July 2013 4 Min Read
From SCF to WCO by Robin Page, Chief Executive, TMI One of the most popular of TMI’s regular special reports has been our annual survey of developments in supply chain finance (SCF). This particular report is indeed concerned with that subject but in recognition of...
July 2013 18 Min Read
Financing Dynamic Distribution A qualitative study on the rising role of distributor finance programmes in enabling downstream business in international supply chains by Phillip Kerle, Chief Executive Officer, Demica As trading business undergoes a shift from letters of...
April 2013 3 Min Read
Closing the Funding Gap at Georg Fischer Automotive A UniCredit Case Study by Andreas Müller, Chief Financial Officer, and Atul Malhotra, Head of Procurement, Georg Fischer Automotive Like many organisations, Georg Fischer Automotive, one of the three core businesses...
February 2013 7 Min Read
Cash is Yesterday’s News: The Transformation of Payments by Ron van Wezel, Global Head of Emerging Payment Streams, Global Transaction Banking, Deutsche Bank The world of commerce is undergoing a digital transformation thanks to the emergence of new payments...
January 2013 6 Min Read
This is the time when many of us make New Year resolutions. Losing weight, improving our health and wellbeing are probably the most common, and are often broken by the end of the month. But what professional resolutions should we really be making, and how can we keep to...
January 2013 6 Min Read
Driving Growth and Innovation through in Latin America by Shahrokh Moinian, Managing Director and Head of Trade Finance and Cash Management Corporates Americas, Global Transaction Banking, Deutsche Bank Five or six years ago, trade finance was becoming increasingly...
November 2012 3 Min Read
Tricks of the Trade by Dino Sani, Head of Treasury Services for Latin America, BNY Mellon Intra-emerging market (or ‘south-south’) trade – having grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.4% since 2002 to account for 23% of world trade in 2010...
September 2012 5 Min Read
How We’re Reinforcing the ‘Open Account’ by Dave Phillips, Global Head for Trade Services and Supply Chain Finance, Lloyds Banking Group What’s exciting, argues Dave Phillips, is how rapidly banking technology is developing to facilitate trade...
