by Kylene Casanova
Service bureaux play a key role for the SWIFT community and connect a large number of SWIFT customers with their counterparties. The new Shared Infrastructure Programme (SIP) is launched in response to requests from
by Kylene Casanova
The presentation by Barclays Head of UK Corporate Payments, Mike Walters, at the Association of Corporate Treasurers Cash Management conference on 13-14 February was an important review
by Kylene Casanova
Card interchange charges - the proportion of the merchant service charge that is passed on to the card issuer - in the VISA and MasterCard card schemes has always been costly for the merchant, sometimes as much as 2
by Kylene Casanova
Short-term investment is any period up to one year. It covers:
by Kylene Casanova
OB10, the e-Invoicing network, and sharedserviceslink.com, have carried out a survey of 200 accounts receivable professionals which found that 85% agree that eliminating exceptions would be one of the most effective
by Kylene Casanova
According to the ECB Euro Area Bank Lending Survey for Q4 2012 average margins for Enterprises have widened 23% while the tightening of collateral requirements was stable.
by Kylene Casanova
American Express has launched a new service that turns Twitter hashtags into purchases. American Express cardholders who sync their eligible cards and tweet special hashtags can buy American Express gift cards and p
by Kylene Casanova
The graph on SEPA Direct Debits says it all:
by Kylene Casanova
In the 'Investing in Repos' session at the ACT's Cash Management conference last week, Repos were described as maximising the return from an under utilized asset. Repos typically need to be £10m or more in either US
by Kylene Casanova
This month China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBoC), appointed two additional banks – the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Singapore (ICBC Singapore) and Bank of China in Taiwan (BoC Taiwan)
by Kylene Casanova
At the Association of Corporate Treasurers Cash Management in London last week a panel made up of Maurice Cleaves - Barclays, Ian Armstrong - AMEC, Angela Clark - Misys, and Paul Outridge - De La Rue and the audienc
by Kylene Casanova
Cybercrime is big business. It is costing consumers $110bn a year and affects almost 1.5m people a day, Symantec, the online security group, reported last year. Bank accounts are being compromised; credit card detai
by Kylene Casanova
The Payment Council's report on the way the UK pays always makes interesting reading. Some of the key findings from the report are:
by Kylene Casanova
This is from a blog called Tech.pions by Ben Bajarin, Principal Analyst at Creative Strategies, Inc. He's writing about Apple's iOS (operating system) for the iPhone and the iPad. But it also applies to corporate tr
by Kylene Casanova
Since the People's Bank of China (PBC) introduced the renminbi (RMB) cross-border initiative in July 2009 to promote the internationalisation of RMB, the number of activities in Singapore for offshore RMB solutions
by Kylene Casanova
At the Association of Corporate Treasurers cash management conference last week cash flow forecasting was mentioned in many different presentations. There was general agreement that corporate treasury has become muc
by Kylene Casanova
Companies in the Middle East are looking for maximum security in trade transactions after being doubly hit by the financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Middle East companies and banks are being extremely cautious wh
by Kylene Casanova
Steve Sprague, VP Product Strategy, Invoiceware International, one of the leading e-invoicing networks with 200 global enterprises, in his blog on Finextra described the key difference between Latam and Europe.
by Kylene Casanova
China's forex regulators issued a new guideline on January 28 simplifying repatriation of IPO
by Kylene Casanova
Many organizations define risk as something to avoid. Playing the safest game possible has its merits, but a healthy, detailed definition of your organization's appetite for risk is critical to success in business.
by Kylene Casanova
US financial servicing company Broadridge Financial Solutions has been appointed by global banking co-operative SWIFT as a business partner for Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Liechte
by Kylene Casanova
Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world.
by Kylene Casanova
Citi now supports multinational corporate clients in their trade flows using the new Corporate-to-Bank SWIFT Message Type (MT) 798. The MT 798 enables clients to generate trade flow communications with any SWIFT MT7
by Kylene Casanova
Citi's announcement that they are now processing 1 million XML transaction each month is an important illustration of the speed at which XML usage is growing. Cit's million/month is made up of payment messages - a m
