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Winner Insights

Agentic Bots Revolutionize Digital Banking Experience

Isbank Deputy CEO Sezgin Lüle, whose bank won the World’s Best Mobile Banking App award, explains how LLMs and partnerships enable hyper-personalized financial services and foster a “super-app” ecosystem.

Executive Interviews

CFO Corner: Nitesh Sharan, SoundHound AI

Global Finance: What stands out as your main achievements leading finance at SoundHound AI? Nitesh Sharan: When I joined SoundHound,...

Features

Qatar: A New World Capital For Wealth?

Qatar’s LNG-driven prosperity is reshaping both its domestic eco-nomy and its international footprint.

Bringing digital innovation & entrepreneurship to SME banking

A leader in banking for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), Boubyan Bank offers one-stop-shop financial solutions for SMEs, from startups to established companies.

Executive Interviews

Qatar: Evolving Dynamics

Abdulla Mubarak Al Khalifa, Group CEO of Qatar National Bank, speaks with Global Finance about the bank’s international strategy and the opportunities shaping QNB’s next phase of growth.

Executive Interviews

Qatar: Doha Bank’s Dimitrios Kokosioulis On Banks’ Capital-Light Strategy

Dimitrios Kokosioulis, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Doha Bank, one of Qatar’s leading commercial banks and digital banking pioneer, speaks with Global Finance about the bank’s partnership with digital payment solution Paytabs to support SMEs and e-commerce platforms.

Features

Qatar: LNG Riches Fuel Wider Expansion

Qatar’s financial sector is powering up for the next liquified natural gas boom. But other fast-growing sectors are looking to benefit from the new wealth inflow as well.

Transaction Banking

In Conversation with Melvyn Low, OCBC’s Group Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer & Head of Global Transaction Banking

With today’s new digital norms driving contactless and, increasingly, instant payments, a transformation in cash management strategies and processes is underway across Southeast Asia.

Banks shift from using AI for productivity to improving customer experience

The Playbook For 2026: Winning now depends on pairing scalable platforms with personalized, value-oriented advice.

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World’s Best Private Banks 2026

The Playbook For 2026: Winning now depends on pairing scalable platforms with personalized, value-oriented advice.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Brookfield To Pump $12 Billion Into India Energy Projects

New York-based Brookfield agreed to invest $12 billion in green energy projects in Andhra Pradesh, India, over the next three years.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Akzo Nobel, Axalta Deal Brushes Up Paint Industry

Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel is splashing into the US with plans to combine with Philadelphia-based rival Axalta Coating Systems...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SPACs Are Back And Fueled By MAGA World

Many of the newly formed SPACs target sectors aligned with “America First” priorities, including cryptocurrency, nuclear technology and quantum computing.

Expanding In Africa: How Egypt’s CIB Is Pursuing Cross-Border Growth

Looking beyond its home market in Egypt, Commercial International Bank’s (CIB’s) Islam Zekry, Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Board Member, reveals the bank’s vision to be a key financial partner for African economic expansion. To do this, it is leveraging Kenya as a strategic hub, while prioritising high-growth sectors and supporting SMEs, corporates and Egyptian exporters.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Diageo Taps ‘Drastic Dave’ As New CEO

After the abrupt departure of Debra Crew in July 2025, UK-based alcohol giant Diageo, will toast the arrival of Sir Dave Lewis, its new CEO, in 2026.