"...SCF Capital, for example, has developed SCFCAP.com, an industry procurement utility which acts as an intermediary, providing liquidity to parties at multiple levels of the supply chain..."
Treasury Today publication...
18.09.07 - Vienna, Austria - Sarah Jones speaks at EuroFinance on
"Supply Chain : Taking Inventory off the Balance Sheet"
"EuroFinance International Cash and Treasury Management conference - Vienna 18-20 September
Speak on "Suppy Chain : Taking Inventory off the Balance Sheet" with Steve Harper,
Global Treasurer, Flextronics and Daniel Corsten, Professor of Supply Chain Management at
Instituto de Empresa in Madrid"
18.09.07 - Vienna, Austria - Sarah Jones makes EuroFinance's
"The Innovation 50 - Treasurers Making a Difference"
"Sarah Jones, CEO - SCF Capital.
Whilst no longer a corporate Treasurer (Jones was EMEA Treasurer for HP), she is spearheading the development of
financial products to free supply chains of funding constraints. Her pioneering thoughts on financial supply chain
are turning the topic into one of the most talked about this year in the treasury world."
Treasury Perspectives article...
Treasury Perspectives is published every September/October by EuroFinance
and is in worldwide circulation for one year. Neither this publication nor any part of it may
be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,
including photocopying and recording, or stored in a retrieval
system of any nature, without permission.
18.09.07 - Vienna, Austria - Sarah Jones quoted in EuroFinance's
Treasury Perspecitves article "Demand drives supply chain finance"
"Supply chain finance touches many parts of the business that are
typically outside the treasurer's remit, so it may fall outside normal treasury priorities.
Indeed the challenge and the opportunity in SCF may not be key or indeed visible to a treasurer
or even a CFO."
Treasury Perspectives article...
Treasury Perspectives is published every September/October by EuroFinance
and is in worldwide circulation for one year. Neither this publication nor any part of it may
be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,
including photocopying and recording, or stored in a retrieval
system of any nature, without permission.
08.05.07 - Washington, DC - Sarah Jones speaks at AFP Global
Corporate Treasurers Forum.
21.03.07 - Vienna, Austria - John Sculley and Sarah Jones speak at
Receivables International 2007 on "Supply Chain Finance for the Electronics and Print Industries".
19.03.07 - Vienna, Austria - SCF Capital Announces Partnership with Eurofactor to Link SME's in Print and Electronics Industries to SCFCAP.com Supply Chain Finance Programs
Today at Receivables International 2007, SCF Capital announced their partnership with Eurofactor to offer Print and Electronics SMEs the ability to take advantage of SCF Capital's industry finance programs.
John Sculley, Managing Partner NY of SCF Capital stated, "Credit Agricole's Eurofactor division has established itself as the leading provider of receivables finance programs in Western Europe. SCF Capital is excited to work with Eurofactor to offer SME's in the Electronics and Print industries access to SCF Capital's new industry-focused cross-border funding opportunities."
Mike Hudson, Eurofactor UK added, "SCF Capital's team, led by John Sculley and Sarah Jones, are well known as thought leaders. Eurofactor is delighted to work with SCF Capital in order to offer our clients access to SCF Capital's unique supply chain finance solutions."
For further information please contact Mike Hudson at Eurofactor (mhudson@eurofactor.co.uk) or Sarah Jones at SCF Capital (sarah.jones@scfcapital.co.uk)
About SCF Capital
SCF Capital is a boutique merchant bank which structures trade finance programs for companies at multiple tiers of industry supply chains and provides insurance and funding for these industry programs in partnership with leading banks, institutional funds and insurers. SCF Capital has built a procurement platform, SCFCAP.com, which encapsulates these programs and provides visibility to multiples tiers of the supply chains in the electronics and print industries, with additional programs announced this year in the oil & gas services, pharmaceutical and consumer goods/retail industries.
About Eurofactor (a Credit Acgricole company)
Established in the UK since 1986, the EUROFACTOR brand was born in 2000 following the merger of SLIFAC owned by Credit Lyonnais and Societe Francaise d'Affacturage (SFF), a subsidiary of the Euler Hermes Group. Today Credit Agricole has 100% ownership of the EUROFACTOR Group across Europe. The combined factored turnover of EUROFACTOR is in excess of 27 billion Euros and the group has over 5000 clients.
15.03.07 - London, UK - Shaping Tomorrow,
John Sculley speaks on "Supply Chain Finance's Role in Private Equity"
05.03.07 - Aberdeen Group publishes report on SCF Capital -
"SCF Capital Delivers New Industry Procurement Utility Approach to Supply Chain Finance.
(view...)
10.10.06 - Sydney, Australia - HP
European Treasurer Sarah Jones To become CEO of SCF Capital. Conor
Maher, also from HP's award winning treasury, joins SCF Capital as EVP
BPO and Distributor Financing
Today at SIBOS, SCF Capital announced that it was
appointing HP European Treasurer Sarah Jones as CEO, and HP European
Treasury Services Manager Conor Maher as EVP BPO and Distributor
Financing.
John Sculley, Managing Partner NY of SCF Capital,
stated, "We are delighted to be bringing on Sarah Jones as CEO and
Conor Maher as EVP BPO and Distributor Financing. By leveraging their
experience of HP's world class treasury organisation in the areas of
operations and distributor financing programs, Sarah and Conor can help
SCF Capital bring this leadership to Fortune 500 companies."
Recently HP won the 2006 EuroFinance International
Award for Treasury Excellence for Sarah Jones's thought leadership in
supply chain finance. In her 22 years at HP, Sarah has overseen the
implementation of regional Treasury Centres, consolidation of Treasury
activities through mergers such as Compaq, and supported the design and
implementation of distributor financing programs. In setting up the
European Treasury Centre, which now manages the daily cash operations
of 29 countries, Sarah was one of the original pioneers and champions
of the global re-engineering program that transformed HP Treasury to
it's Hackett Group-recognized world-class status.
Conor Maher as Treasury Services Manager was
responsible for the Treasury operational activities for EMEA, Latin
America and Canada as well as the management of HP's sizeable offshore
investment portfolio. Conor's past experience in working with HP's BPO
organisation will help SCF Capital strengthen its ability to partner
with BPO providers and implement distribution financing programs.
About SCF Capital
SCF Capital is a boutique merchant bank which structures trade finance programs for companies at multiple tiers of industry supply chains and provides insurance and funding for these industry programs in partnership with leading banks, institutional funds and insurers. SCF Capital has built a procurement platform, SCFCAP.com, which encapsulates these programs and provides visibility to multiples tiers of the supply chains in the electronics and print industries, with additional programs announced this year in the oil & gas services, pharmaceutical and consumer goods/retail industries.
9.10.06 - Sydney, Australia - SCF
Capital Demonstrates Joint Implementation with Intel
Today at SIBOS, SCF Capital demonstrated the
implementation of their joint reference architecture for utilizing
Intel enabled mobile technology to finance corporate supply chains.
John Sculley, Managing Partner NY of SCF Capital
stated, "We believe that vertical form-based applications will do for
mobile adoption what desktop publishing did for graphics PCs. Both our
supplier and distributor financing products are more effective through
the exception-handling capability demonstrated on these Intel-powered
mobile devices."
Nigel Woodward, Intel financial services stated,
"Intel is focusing on business users and e-commerce as communities that
can greatly benefit from extension in the reach of computing, enabling
interoperability with financial solutions across the supply chain from
initiation to settlement. Our next-generation Intel® Centrino®
Duo mobile technology platform is illustrative of how laptops and
mobile devices can operate faster and with enhanced wireless
communication capabilities". Coming from leading R and D, advances in
low power processors will extend the applicability of mobility in
computing.
28.9.06 - Florence, Italy - John
Sculley kenotes EuroFinance.
Nordic Financial Services Group announces
strategic relationship with SCF Capital as they expand their treasury
consulting into supply chain. (press release...)
27.9.06 - Singapore Shane Maine speaks
at conference
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