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Winner Insights

Andreea Parneci, Societe Generale: Navigating The Instant Payments Revolution

Andreea Parneci, deputy head of Global Transaction and Payment Services at Societe Generale, which won Best Bank for Transaction Banking, explains how the bank is addressing the new regulatory requirements and building a unified global transaction banking model.

Winner Insights

Loic Leonard, ION: Advanced Analytics And AI Tackle Treasury Challenges

ION is this year’s winner of the Best White Label System Provider – Non-Bank. Loic Leonard, head of product (Wallstreet Suite) at ION, discusses the technological foundations of a modern treasury.

Technology

AI Transforms The Finance Function

AI tools are driving efficiency and strategic gains—and fundamentally reshaping finance professionals’ roles.

Boubyan Bank: Kuwait’s Partner in Digital Banking

Kuwait is emerging as a forward-thinking player in the global banking landscape. Boubyan Bank’s Abdullah Al Tuwaijri, Chief Executive Officer for Consumer, Private & Digital Banking discusses Kuwait’s digital banking strategy and Boubyan Bank’s central role in reshaping Kuwait’s banking sector with innovative digital financial services.

Executive Interviews

Christopher Hodge, Natixis: Inside The Economic Crosswinds

Christopher Hodge, chief US economist at investment bank Natixis, shares his thoughts regarding the forces shaping the US economy. With a career spanning the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the US Department of the Treasury, and hedge funds, he offers a rare public and private perspective on today’s policy-driven landscape, the growing risk of an economic slowdown, and how recent policy decisions may be making it worse.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Seven & i Acquisition Falls Through

The proposed $47 billion acquisition of Japan’s Seven & i Holdings by Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT) would have been the largest foreign takeover in Japanese history.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Japan: Prime Minister’s Waning Power Jolts Stability

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s grip on power weakened further after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and coalition partner Komeito lost their majority in Japan’s upper house elections on July 20.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Giovanni Ferrero Scoops Up WK Kellogg

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and Giovanni Ferrero knows it.

Cybersecurity: A key focus for North American Banks

In the first half of the year, North American banking executives’ spending on cybersecurity actually outpaced that on artificial intelligence (AI). In both areas, talent has proven the most difficult to recruit. These spending insights are part of key findings revealed in the second edition of the Infosys Bank Tech Index, according to Ajay Bhandari from Infosys.

Transaction Banking

News & Features Archive

Andreea Parneci, Societe Generale: Navigating The Instant Payments Revolution

Loic Leonard, ION: Advanced Analytics And AI Tackle Treasury Challenges

AI Transforms The Finance Function

Boubyan Bank: Kuwait’s Partner in Digital Banking

Christopher Hodge, Natixis: Inside The Economic Crosswinds

Seven & i Acquisition Falls Through

Japan: Prime Minister’s Waning Power Jolts Stability

Giovanni Ferrero Scoops Up WK Kellogg

Cybersecurity: A key focus for North American Banks

Will Reshoring Survive Trump’s Shifting Tariff Policy?

From Automation To Augmentation – AI In Finance Awards 2025

AI In Finance Awards 2025 | Corporate And Investment Banking

AI In Finance Awards 2025 | Consumer Banking

Converse Bank: At the Forefront of Innovation in Armenia

GCC Digital Upheaval – Fintechs vs. Banks