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	BPO and ISO 20022: A Technology Perspective Olivier Berthier, Misys - 25 Jan 2012 Despite industry inertia to change, bank payment obligation (BPO) is an opportunity for a positive evolution in the face of an increasingly online industry.
	The 'Trade Tilt' Hypothesis Nigel Taylor, GXS - David Hennah, SWIFT - 24 Jan 2012 Much has been said about the potential of the bank payment obligation (BPO) as an electronic equivalent to documentary trade processes and an automated alternative to open account. With the financial turmoil of the past few years, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what impact this new instrument may eventually have on global trade, but with an accelerated emergence of the Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) economies, the business case for electronic cross-border trade is increasingly compelling.
	Mitigating Risk and Maximising Opportunity for International Trade Pravin Advani, JP Morgan - 24 Jan 2012 Bank payment obligation (BPO), which is available through SWIFT's centralised automated data matching engine - Trade Services Utility (TSU), is a new financial instrument offering the opportunity to mitigate risks, while still capitalising on the advantage of open account trade.
	Accelerating Global Trade Finance André Casterman, SWIFT - 23 Jan 2012 The partnership between the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and SWIFT will revolutionise global trade finance practices by leveraging electronic transaction data available from dematerialised business-to-business (B2B) processes and by establishing paperless inter-bank practices.

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Industry expert Enrico Camerinelli is contributing editor for the Financial Supply Chain section on gtnews.

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Supply Chain Finance Blog
Part 1: S&OP for Cash Forecasting - 10 Jan 2012
What if analysis and simulation could be run continually, on a real-time basis with live data? This blog analyses the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process and asks why shouldn't analysis also be possible for cash forecasting in the financial supply chain?

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Part 5: Supply Chain Finance: A Glossary - 05 Dec 2011
This article aims to provide a list of the IT applications (i.e. SCF components) and the IT infrastructure (i.e. SCF enablers) that compose the core of the SCF IT ecosystem.

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EuroFinance 2011 Blog - 13 Oct 2011
Follow the interesting session discussions at EuroFinance 2011 through two daily blogs.

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Part 4: Paving the Way to a Common Glossary for Supply Chain Finance - 12 Oct 2011
The initiatives of various industry bodies around defining supply chain finance (SCF) will remove the resistance of many parties that have so far been sitting on the fence waiting for more clarity and agreed-upon terminology.

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Sibos 2011: Interview with Richard Dallas, Managing Director, Transaction Banking, Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets - 21 Sep 2011
Richard Dallas, managing director, transaction banking, Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, touches on three topics of interest to corporate treasurers: cash management, working capital and reducing risk with supply chain finance.

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Sibos 2011: FSC Blog - 20 Sep 2011
Contributing editor Enrico Camerinelli looks at some of the main themes he has picked up on in Toronto.

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Sibos 2011: Interview with Ashutosh Kumar, Global Head of Cash and Trade Products, Standard Chartered - 27 Sep 2011
Ashutosh Kumar, global head of cash and trade products, Standard Chartered, gives an update on trade flows and the growing amount of inter-market trade across Asia.

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Sibos 2011: gtnews Blog - 19 Sep 2011
Joy Macknight, editor, reports from the Sibos 2011 conference floor in Toronto, Canada.

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Part 3: Optimising Working Capital: The Devil is in the Details - 06 Sep 2011
When setting up a working capital optimisation plan, what component in the value chain is the best candidate for optimisation?

Survey Results

Heading Towards Centralised Control and Integration - 22 Aug 2011
Overall, integration and centralisation were the dominant themes to come out of the gtnews 2011 Cash Management and Trade Finance Survey. Treasurers are increasingly looking to other areas of the business to make improvements in working capital and more treasurers are likely to take ownership of trade finance, financial risk management and working capital management in future.

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