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Alvantia sponsors the 6th Edition of the Supply Chain Finance Summit 2021
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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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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DAOs and tokenized networks: a new kind of company
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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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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Meta algorithms and base models in Machine Learning
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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Finalbion, at the forefront of innovation after implementing the Alvantia commercial financing software platform
Since September 1st, Fintech Finalbion moves to the avant-garde on innovation after implementing the Alvantia commercial financing platform into its own systems, backing up its disruptive business model with the most innovative technological solution on the market. Finalbion, who specializes in the financing of working capital, now operates under Alvantia platform, which has been implemented with huge success by Alvantia’s team and will be used by Finalbion from now on to manage their receivables and payables services, among others.
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Top Secret Rosies: six cool programmers
As we know, women currently have very little presence in technology companies. However, recent studies show that companies would yield a much greater profit if they were to achieve equality: for example, if the UK were to increase the number of women to 30%, its economy would grow by 11 billion.
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What risks does a Fintech run when publishing insecure web applications and how can it protect itself?
Imagine that one day the clients of a small firm in the financial sector, whose products operate and are contracted online, cannot access their accounts, make transfers or even access the website. And they encounter the theft of their money, fraudulent use of their cards, movements of money to unknown recipients or misuse of their personal data. Without a doubt, the company would run the risk of incurring very high costs in order to deal with the claims, investigate what happened, repair the damage caused, restore operations, compensate for damages to third parties, regain the trust of its customers, etc.
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