This list includes 6 of the top15 Trade banks (based on Cat 7 traffic)
ANZ - Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
Bank of China
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Bangkok Bank
BNP Paribas
China CITIC Bank
CIMB - Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad
Commerzbank
Hua Nan Bank (Head Office: Taipei )
Korea Exchange Bank ( KEB )
Maybank - Malayan Banking Berhad
Siam Commercial Bank ( SCB Thailand )
Standard Chartered Bank ( SCB )
Türkiye Is Bankasi ( Isbank )
Turkish Economy Bank Inc. ( TEB )
UniCredit
Information as at November 17, 2014 supplied by SWIFT
As you can see there are plenty of banks to turn to for this service if yours is being unhelpful.
Ron Wells
Showing posts with label Bank Payment Obligations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bank Payment Obligations. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
List of the 15 Banking Groups Now Live on BPO
This list includes 6 of the top 15 Trade banks (based on Cat 7 traffic)
ANZ - Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
Bank of China
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Bangkok Bank
BNP Paribas
China CITIC Bank
CIMB - Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad
Commerzbank
Hua Nan Bank (Head Office: Taipei )
Korea Exchange Bank ( KEB )
Maybank - Malayan Banking Berhad
Siam Commercial Bank ( SCB Thailand )
Standard Chartered Bank ( SCB )
Türkiye Is Bankasi ( Isbank )
UniCredit
Information as at October 16, 2014 supplied by SWIFT
Plenty of banks to turn to for this service if yours is a laggard.
Ron Wells
ANZ - Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
Bank of China
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Bangkok Bank
BNP Paribas
China CITIC Bank
CIMB - Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad
Commerzbank
Hua Nan Bank (Head Office: Taipei )
Korea Exchange Bank ( KEB )
Maybank - Malayan Banking Berhad
Siam Commercial Bank ( SCB Thailand )
Standard Chartered Bank ( SCB )
Türkiye Is Bankasi ( Isbank )
UniCredit
Information as at October 16, 2014 supplied by SWIFT
Plenty of banks to turn to for this service if yours is a laggard.
Ron Wells
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Ode to LCs past and BPOs to come
Do you have BPO?
What's BPO?
I'll take that as a NO
BPO replaces SBLCs
BPO-Plus replaces DocLCs
BPO Reduces Costs
Improves Working Capital!
Why haven't I heard of BPO?
'Cause your TF Banker is afraid
Afraid to spill the beans.
Why?
'Cause it threatens his/her job
Oh, I shall find another bank
a BPO friendly bank
Where can I find a list?
A BPO ready bank list?
At SWIFT.com you'll find a list
A BPO ready bank list :o)
I can't find the list
The BPO ready bank list
It's hidden on SWIFT.com
Search for 'BPO Market Adoption SWIFT’
To find the BPO ready bank list
What's BPO?
I'll take that as a NO
BPO replaces SBLCs
BPO-Plus replaces DocLCs
BPO Reduces Costs
Improves Working Capital!
Why haven't I heard of BPO?
'Cause your TF Banker is afraid
Afraid to spill the beans.
Why?
'Cause it threatens his/her job
Oh, I shall find another bank
a BPO friendly bank
Where can I find a list?
A BPO ready bank list?
At SWIFT.com you'll find a list
A BPO ready bank list :o)
I can't find the list
The BPO ready bank list
It's hidden on SWIFT.com
Search for 'BPO Market Adoption SWIFT’
To find the BPO ready bank list
Monday, September 1, 2014
Bank Payment Obligations (BPOs) – Basics for Corporates
Whether you are a Seller or Buyer of goods this article provides the basic information you need in order to start replacing Standby Letters of Credit and/or Documentary Letters of Credit (LCs) with the BPO or BPO-Plus process respectively.
You can download a copy of this article by clicking here.
Why bother to make the change?
Companies that adopt the BPO and/or BPO-Plus processes are able to capture a number of benefits from the BPO system; for example:
• Improved cash flow management based on certainty as to when invoice payments will be credited.
• Reduced document handling – whether paper or electronic – since purchase orders and invoices are keyed into the system and communicated automatically; via one or two banks in nanoseconds. The SWIFT system is exceptionally secure and reliable, and covers more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 210 countries
• Reduced information discrepancies and/or reduced time involved in identifying and correcting mismatched data. The BPO system automatically matches buyer and seller data against the Purchase Order/Contract baseline and provides various reports
• Better payment protection (for the seller) compared to a Standby or Documentary Letter of Credit; with reduced costs and handling required on both sides of a transaction
• Access to financing options is improved for both buyer and seller
According to an article that you can find with this link.
“This process (the BPO & BPO-Plus) results in a fully electronic alternative to the letter of credit (LC), which will enable efficiency gains, working capital reduction and cost saving. This electronic alternative can be processed in a much shorter time than traditional, paper-based LCs – estimates are as low as 10-15 days. Reduced processing times result in significant cost savings: Brazilian mining company Vale estimates that a combination of electronic bills of lading and BPOs is saving it $37 million per year on its exports of iron ore to China alone.”
The BPO Train is leaving the station, so you better hurry to catch it… or risk being left in the LC dust by your competitors…
It is understandable that many Trade Finance Bankers will resist the switch to BPO and BPO-Plus but it would be preferable for them to accept that BPO related changes are unstoppable. The sooner Bankers accept that and start to make the necessary changes in their careers the better, delay will only mean more painful and difficult changes will have to be made later.
In 2000 Gary Hamel wrote in his book ‘Leading the Revolution’: …”change has changed. No longer is it additive. No longer does it move in a straight line. In the twenty-first century, change is discontinuous, abrupt, and seditious. We now stand on the threshold of a new age – the age of revolution. In our minds we know the new age has already arrived; in our bellies, we’re not sure we like it. For we know it is going to be an age of upheaval, of tumult, of fortunes made and unmade at head-snapping speed.”
In fact it was in 2000 that TradeCard brought its solution to market, a product that BPO more than resembles, it virtually mirrors. Admittedly it has taken 14 years for the BPO to become a globally viable LC alternative but the challenges overcome in terms of proving the technologies involved, agreeing standards and putting in place internationally accepted rules have been formidable.
The prize for banks and users (exporters/sellers, importers/buyers and traders) is significant.
On the other hand there will inevitably be losers, mainly those who have built a career on the basis of UCP expertise; bankers, consultants, trainers and academics. The losers’ whose ‘cheese is being moved’ can denounce this development, and try to derail or delay the transition, but like blowing against the wind such efforts to maintain the status quo will prove fruitless in the end.
Today one can be a Kodak strategist until one’s world falls apart when the ‘digital camera producers’ destroy the business and associated jobs, or one can recognise the signs and start searching for ‘new cheese’. As Lynda Gratton wrote in ‘The Shift – The Future of Work is Already Here’: “In a world of more and more complex technology, it is the highly skilled, or what I call those with serial mastery, who will always find work.”
Those who do not notice their 'cheese' disappearing and do not set out to find ‘new cheese’ (a new expert occupation) will, I’m afraid, find it difficult to maintain their current standard of living.
William Gibson in 1993 famously said: “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.”
Ron Wells
You can download a copy of this article by clicking here.
Why bother to make the change?
Companies that adopt the BPO and/or BPO-Plus processes are able to capture a number of benefits from the BPO system; for example:
• Improved cash flow management based on certainty as to when invoice payments will be credited.
• Reduced document handling – whether paper or electronic – since purchase orders and invoices are keyed into the system and communicated automatically; via one or two banks in nanoseconds. The SWIFT system is exceptionally secure and reliable, and covers more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 210 countries
• Reduced information discrepancies and/or reduced time involved in identifying and correcting mismatched data. The BPO system automatically matches buyer and seller data against the Purchase Order/Contract baseline and provides various reports
• Better payment protection (for the seller) compared to a Standby or Documentary Letter of Credit; with reduced costs and handling required on both sides of a transaction
• Access to financing options is improved for both buyer and seller
According to an article that you can find with this link.
“This process (the BPO & BPO-Plus) results in a fully electronic alternative to the letter of credit (LC), which will enable efficiency gains, working capital reduction and cost saving. This electronic alternative can be processed in a much shorter time than traditional, paper-based LCs – estimates are as low as 10-15 days. Reduced processing times result in significant cost savings: Brazilian mining company Vale estimates that a combination of electronic bills of lading and BPOs is saving it $37 million per year on its exports of iron ore to China alone.”
The BPO Train is leaving the station, so you better hurry to catch it… or risk being left in the LC dust by your competitors…
It is understandable that many Trade Finance Bankers will resist the switch to BPO and BPO-Plus but it would be preferable for them to accept that BPO related changes are unstoppable. The sooner Bankers accept that and start to make the necessary changes in their careers the better, delay will only mean more painful and difficult changes will have to be made later.
In 2000 Gary Hamel wrote in his book ‘Leading the Revolution’: …”change has changed. No longer is it additive. No longer does it move in a straight line. In the twenty-first century, change is discontinuous, abrupt, and seditious. We now stand on the threshold of a new age – the age of revolution. In our minds we know the new age has already arrived; in our bellies, we’re not sure we like it. For we know it is going to be an age of upheaval, of tumult, of fortunes made and unmade at head-snapping speed.”
In fact it was in 2000 that TradeCard brought its solution to market, a product that BPO more than resembles, it virtually mirrors. Admittedly it has taken 14 years for the BPO to become a globally viable LC alternative but the challenges overcome in terms of proving the technologies involved, agreeing standards and putting in place internationally accepted rules have been formidable.
The prize for banks and users (exporters/sellers, importers/buyers and traders) is significant.
On the other hand there will inevitably be losers, mainly those who have built a career on the basis of UCP expertise; bankers, consultants, trainers and academics. The losers’ whose ‘cheese is being moved’ can denounce this development, and try to derail or delay the transition, but like blowing against the wind such efforts to maintain the status quo will prove fruitless in the end.
Today one can be a Kodak strategist until one’s world falls apart when the ‘digital camera producers’ destroy the business and associated jobs, or one can recognise the signs and start searching for ‘new cheese’. As Lynda Gratton wrote in ‘The Shift – The Future of Work is Already Here’: “In a world of more and more complex technology, it is the highly skilled, or what I call those with serial mastery, who will always find work.”
Those who do not notice their 'cheese' disappearing and do not set out to find ‘new cheese’ (a new expert occupation) will, I’m afraid, find it difficult to maintain their current standard of living.
William Gibson in 1993 famously said: “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.”
Ron Wells
Friday, August 22, 2014
The BPO & Friends have a Stranglehold on the LC and will soon finally lay it to rest…
Read why every business that accepts Standby Letters of Credit as collateral cover (security) for its sales transactions should switch to requiring Bank Payment Obligations (BPOs).
Discover how the BPO-Plus (BPO & Friends) will gradually but inexorably replace transaction related Documentary LCs over the next five years or less. The considerable rewards intrinsic to using BPO and electronic documents in combination are available to every trading partnership today; you should be benefiting.
To read the full article click here.
Ron Wells
Ron Wells is a B2B counterparty credit risk and trade finance practitioner and author of “Credit Risk Management – The Novel (Part One)”. This is not a text book, it is a story that follows the day to day work of a credit risk management team as they face and overcome various challenges. You are invited to ‘listen in’ to their conversations and read the outline of the solutions they employ. There is a parallel story that follows the adventures of James E Cricket, providing and undercurrent of twists and turns.
Ron also wrote “Global Credit Management – an Executive Summary” published by John Wiley & Sons. His books are sold by Amazon.com and other retail outlets.
Discover how the BPO-Plus (BPO & Friends) will gradually but inexorably replace transaction related Documentary LCs over the next five years or less. The considerable rewards intrinsic to using BPO and electronic documents in combination are available to every trading partnership today; you should be benefiting.
To read the full article click here.
Ron Wells
Ron Wells is a B2B counterparty credit risk and trade finance practitioner and author of “Credit Risk Management – The Novel (Part One)”. This is not a text book, it is a story that follows the day to day work of a credit risk management team as they face and overcome various challenges. You are invited to ‘listen in’ to their conversations and read the outline of the solutions they employ. There is a parallel story that follows the adventures of James E Cricket, providing and undercurrent of twists and turns.
Ron also wrote “Global Credit Management – an Executive Summary” published by John Wiley & Sons. His books are sold by Amazon.com and other retail outlets.
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