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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The Great Resignation: Q&A With Conference Board’s Gad Levanon

Gad Levanon, Conference Board labor-markets economist, talks about changes for employers and the outlook for jobs, wages and productivity as economies recover from the pandemic.

News

Three Amigos United Again

President Joseph Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met in person and discussed trade, immigration, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.

News

Turkey’s Lira On A Rocky Road

Turkish President Recep Erdogan believes high interest rates cause high inflation and sacked three central bank governors who stalled onrate cuts.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Tyro Entrepreneur Catapults Into Top CEO Ranks

At the tender age of 26, Alex Rodrigues became the youngest current CEO of a US-based publicly traded company after the trucking software company he founded, Embark Trucks, went public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Conferences and Events

Global Finance’s Safest Bank Awards 2021

Global Financeeditor Andrea Fiano discusses the 2021 Safest Bank Awards, with a look at the methodology for the selections and analysis of this year’s results.

Award Winners

Betting On Big Data: Q&A With Sber’s Alexander Vedyakhin

Alexander Vedyakhin, first deputy chairman of the executive board at Sberbank, shares the Russian bank’s strategy on using data to deliver personalized services.

Features

Digital Bank 2021 Virtual Award Ceremony

Global Finance presented the World’s Best Digital Bank Awards for 2021 on November 18 during a Virtual Awards Ceremony. Global Finance Director of Operations Chris Giarraputo introduced the program, which covered the Best Global and Regional Corporate/Institutional Digital Banks and ...

Features

Citi’s Social Evolution: Q&A With Citi Global Head of Social Finance Jorge Rubio Nava

In late October, Citi issued its first social bond, priced close to par, with a four-year tenor and 1.281% fixed-rate coupon. Proceeds will be used to finance healthcare, affordable housing, education and other goods and services that meet the bank’s social principles. Jorge Rubio Nava, global head of social finance at Citi, talks about the new bond as well as the evolution of Citi’s culture and policy with respect to ESG.

Awards

Latin America Preps For A Startup-Friendly Future: Q&A With mBolsa CEO Bryan Miller

Launching a LatAm business can be especially difficult compared to other countries, but mBolsa CEO Bryan Miller says that is changing.

Expert Perspectives

Standard Banks OneHub: The digital marketplace that brings B2B together

In June, Johannesburg-based Standard Bank officially launched OneHub, a digital platform that helps the bank’s clients and partners interact. OneHub gives clients access to eight built-in solutions (and growing) along with six APIs, all with one password. “It’s a ...

Features

Stars Of China 2021

Global Finance names this year’s best banks in China.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

ESG Growing Pains

Maturing standards are raising the issuance bar.