On January 26th and 27th, the “Supply Chain Finance Summit” was held once again, BCR’s annual event where the latest trends in the sector are shown and where the leaders of the trade finance industry share their ideas.
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Alvantia wishes you a very Merry Christmas!
The Alvantia offices are dressing up in red to celebrate their seventeenth Christmas and end a year full of challenges for the company. A 2020 in which we have had to adapt to a new normality and improve ourselves to ensure that everything goes well. This is a brief summary of what this year has brought us…
Syndication applied to Confirming programs
Confirming or Supplier Financing programs known as Supply Chain Finance (SCF) have proven to be a good tool for managing payments from companies as well as providing financing for their SME suppliers. Since its origin, the product has undergone many variations, improvements, and advances in the market, all of which have served to demonstrate how important it has become to its users as it continues to add value to them in particular and the market in general.
Alvantia attends the online event of the XI International Congress of the Polish Factors Association (PZF)
The Factoring Congress is one of the most important events in the calendar of factoring and finance managers and professionals in Poland. This year, due to the circumstances surrounding Covid-19, the congress has been held through an online event divided into two sessions.
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Data management in trade finance: do we really make the most of the opportunities provided by technology?
There is a key aspect managing the financing of trade credit, in general, and reverse factoring, in particular, which is not always well designed and used, from a trade, operational and risk point of view, in contrast to other financing arrangements: big data.
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Women in business throughout history
The world’s largest emerging market is not China – it’s women. This forceful statement was made by economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, president and CEO of New York’s Center for Talent Innovation and expert on gender issues, working with government agencies and non-profit organisations to promote women in the workplace.
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The importance of the SCF in times of crisis
Roberto Gutiérrez (CEO – Alvantia)
For the World Factoring Yearbook – BCR publication in association with FCI
Introduction
It is not easy to talk about tools to generate liquidity for companies and economic crises when the world is going through the worst pandemic that most of us have ever known. This article is being written in early April in Madrid, Spain which is quite clearly one of the places most affected by this situation.
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DAOs and tokenized networks: a new kind of company
A phrase that is often heard today is that “technology is changing the way business is done”. Technological development has in fact forced many companies to change the design of their business, which in turn affects their processes and their way of working.
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Everything will be fine
We want to share with you some words from our CEO, Roberto Gutiérrez:
I am writing to you from my son Álvaro’s desk, in front of me I have a photo, of a small boy who is now hidden inside another larger boy.
Although, like a lot of you, I do not have an ideal work space in my house, I am, one of the many of us today who is confined to a luxurious cell, locked inside my home and overwhelmed by the reality that surrounds us.
