Undoubtedly, technology is one of the undisputed protagonist of the 21st century. It has undergone a meteoric evolution during the last decades and without this unstoppable development, our lives would be completely different today. (more…)
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.
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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How trade finance helps companies during Coronavirus crisis?
From this forum of opinion and ideas, that is the Alvantia Blog, we would like to put forward our humble vision of the situation in which we are currently embroiled, and will continue to experience over the next few days and weeks. We will look at this in a strictly economic and financial context and particularly from the point of view of a simple analysis and forecast of what may happen in the coming months, specifically, the liquidity that the network of SMEs and the self-employed will need.
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Blockchain Technology and DLT in the financial sector
It’s a fact that there are new technological trends that are currently revolutionising the financial markets. The term Blockchain has become an everyday word in practically everyone’s vocabulary, as it refers to the technology being used by the banking sector to reinvent itself.
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Alvantia wishes you a very Merry Christmas!
The Alvantia offices are dressing up in red to celebrate their sixteenth Christmas and close a very successful year for the company. During 2019 we have faced up to new challenges and continued with others that are now deeply ingrained in our DNA. This is a brief summary of what this year had in store for us.
