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Winner Insights

Future-Proofing Global Trade Finance: Q&A With CGI Financial Services’ Frank Tezzi

Frank Tezzi, vice president, CGI Financial Services, Trade & Payments at Montreal-based information technology and business consulting services provider CGI,...

Winner Insights

Revamping Trade Finance: Q&A With Finastra’s Anastasia McAlpine

Anastasia McAlpine, head of product, Trade & Supply Chain Finance at Finastra, shares why innovation and collaboration are vital to...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Nippon Steel Still Wants To Acquire United States Steel

Outgoing President Joe Biden dropped a bombshell when he issued an executive order last month blocking the purchase of United...

Navigating the Sustainability Commitment Paradox: A roadmap for corporate treasurers

Efforts by the West to punish Russia using an array of sanctions are being undermined as Russian companies increasingly use...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Russia Skirts Sanctions Using Bitcoin

Efforts by the West to punish Russia using an array of sanctions are being undermined as Russian companies increasingly use...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Nigeria’s Vista Bank Approved To Start Operations In France

Vista Bank, a digital-first Nigerian lender, has received regulatory approval from France’s Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) to establish operations in...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

On The Hidden Money Trail: S-RM Sam Taylor Q&A

S-RM’s Sam Taylor, the consultancy firm’s head of corporate intelligence in the Americas, talks with Global Finance about the changing...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Ethiopia: A Stock Market Relaunch Heralds Economic Transformation

For over five decades, Ethiopia held the dubious distinction of being Africa’s second most populous nation and one of the...

How financial institutions can help with the fight against climate change

When it comes to taking the necessary measures to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, action does not come cheap. Introducing the necessary changes to energy production, ensuring more environmentally methods of production and re-tooling existing industries, for example, will come with significant costs. And, unfortunately, a significant proportion of these costs are going to be borne by those least able to afford them.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

India: Private Investments Power $125 Billion Clean Energy Push

After the space sector, India opened up its last frontier, nuclear power, to private investments with an immediate market potential...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Rio Tinto, Glencore Look To Consolidate

Reports involving metals and mining giants BHP, Rio Tinto, Glencore, and Anglo American Plc leave no doubt that the massive...

Banking

Banco Davivienda Gains Slice Of Scotiabank’s Operations

Banco Davivienda has taken over Scotiabank’s operations in Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama in exchange for a 20% stake in...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Is Working-From-Home On Its Way Out The Door?

Company leaders are repeatedly voicing the need for a full-time return to the office. The newly inaugurated US President also...

Mitigating climate change: the role of the Paris Agreement Global Stocktake

When 195 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement in 2015, it seemed the world was finally taking climate change seriously. The commitment to taking the measures necessary to limit the increase in the mean global temperature to a maximum of 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels seemed a turning point in the fight against climate change.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Japan: Startups Wanted

For decades, Japan’s corporate giants relied on in-house R&D to drive innovation, while startups exited primarily via IPOs. But with...