Trade, supply chain and payment veteran André Casterman, former managing director of corporate and supply chain markets at SWIFT, is now a board member of the corporate driven Talent Show – Supply Chain Finance. André Casterman will provide input and support to the team behind…
In today’s business world, the old adage “Cash is King” is being replaced by “Debt is King,” according to the results of the 17th annual working capital survey from REL a division of The Hackett Group and CFO Magazine. The study, which examines the working…
If it was possible to inject, at no cost to the tax-payer – not million or billions – but trillions of dollars into the economy, should it be done? It’s not a rhetorical question although the answer does seem obvious – of course it should…
A number of years ago I visited a Champagne House in Reims, France. I asked our tour guide for advice on buying a bottle of Champagne that I could keep aside for a special event in 25 years time. “Do you have a cave?” he…
Joe Hyland, CMO at Taulia, recently wrote an excellent piece about industry disruption in which he highlighted three of the characteristics of a truly disruptive strategy. Essentially, Joe advises: 1. Don’t simply reinvent the wheel. 2. Don’t plagiarize an existing model and 3. Don’t make…
It’s not quite a revolution. No-one is fighting in the streets but the world is changing. For decades – indeed centuries, banks have wielded a power over business and the wider economy that was virtually unquestioned. The effect wasn’t always negative of course. It is…
The soundtrack to my formative years was the Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Clash, Deaf School, Gregory Isaacs and Aswad. It was fun that the generation I was a part of had music that was revolutionarily different from previous generations yet there were still those…