Leadership, a word that is difficult to define in a single definition, always subject to the need to transform itself to adapt to new contexts and, in this last year, with the pandemic we have experienced, this adaptation and transformation has become even more important and, above all, to the rapid need for the leader to respond to transform himself and his team to a new and different way of working that has never been experienced before.
In these times we live in, in which we spend more and more time at home, solutions that generally cost little money and allow us to improve our quality of life and, in some cases, save on the energy consumption of our home, are of increasing interest.
Alvantia has been a member of the Spanish Network of the United Nations Global Compact for more than seven years. Its corporate culture promotes attitudes and commitments that help to build a fairer, more sustainable and balanced world.
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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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…
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.
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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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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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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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