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June 7, 2023
Sustainable supply chain management is gaining importance globally as companies recognize the significance of reducing their environmental footprint, mitigating social risks, and meeting evolving consumer demands. To achieve long-term business success and meet stakeholder expectations, companies need to adopt a comprehensive approach to managing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors...
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May 16, 2023
Sustainable supply chain finance (SCF) is becoming an increasingly important tool for companies to improve the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of their supply chain. It’s a multipurpose tool that can help mitigate risks, improve efficiency, and create value for all stakeholders involved. However, sustainable SCF requires reliable and transparent data to measure and monitor...
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April 26, 2023
The term “embedded finance” refers to the integration of financial services and products into the business processes and platforms of non-financial entities. For example, an e-commerce platform that allows its customers to open a bank account, make a payment, or apply for a loan without leaving the platform is using embedded finance. But embedded finance is not just about enabling transactions...
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April 13, 2023
As the banking landscape evolves and corporate clients demand more personalized, convenient, and seamless experiences, traditional financial institutions (FIs) face increasing pressure to innovate. One of the areas where banks are innovating is new onboarding methods for corporate clients, seeking ways to attract and service these clients in a profitable and scalable manner. Business-to-business...
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November 30, 2022
The very recent news about AP Moller-Maersk and IBM eliminating TradeLens—a blockchain-based digital trade platform—has caught many by surprise as there was no evidence that the situation had worsened to this point. While I cannot claim that I told you so, I can certainly assert that what I wrote in September 2016, Trade Facilitation and Trade Financing: Building New Bridges, and April 2019,...
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August 24, 2022
In my latest blog post, I covered Banking-as-a-Service, one of the two main trends driving the ongoing service evolution in corporate banking. We discussed these factors earlier in the summer as part of a webinar hosted by NTT DATA that I moderated. I’ll be discussing the other main trend in this post: supply chain finance (SCF) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. SCF...
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August 17, 2022
Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to moderate an interesting and thought-provoking webinar hosted by NTT DATA to discuss the ongoing transformation of corporate banking that has been underway for several years now and is still growing strong. This transformation is being driven by multiple factors, including evolving regulations, increasing customer-centricity, efficiencies in cross...
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May 11, 2022
The sequence of the components of the API acronym—application, programming, interface—does not reflect the sequence in which they are deployed to build an API asset. In fact, “interface” is the first structural component that builds the bridge between the systems to exchange the “applications.” These applications are developed by one party, then accessed via the interface and “consumed” by the...
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April 14, 2022
Disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vital healthy global supply chains are to economies and to communities overall. Beyond the pandemic, a new rising issue in the form of inflationary pressures has intensified. This inflation is one of the most severe, virulent factors among those contributing to the disruption of global supply chains. With supply chains suffering, companies...
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February 15, 2022
On February 7th, Fiserv—a publicly traded company and one of the largest financial service technology providers—announced that it is acquiring the remaining ownership of Finxact, a software developer of cloud-based banking solutions that was founded in 2016. This move signals a new form of competition between banks and fintech vendors. The deal has garnered significant media attention, not...
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