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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Roberto Gutiérrez (CEO – Alvantia)
For the World Factoring Yearbook – BCR publication in association with FCI
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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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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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.
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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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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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.
On November 21st , Alvantia held its now traditional Working Breakfast at the Hotel Intercontinental with the Spanish Factoring Association (AEF). It is an informative event which aims to contribute to the development of the Factoring and Confirming industry.
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A traditional, basic approach in the problems of machine learning is to use a single determined algorithm or model in the implementation of a valid solution. This traditional method is based on creating a pipeline of all the processes that are covered by the development of this algorithm.
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