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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.

Techcombank Sets Sights on Next Stage of Growth in Vietnam

Investments in technology, data and talent are paying off for Techcombank. They helped it tackle tough markets in 2023 and now, as Vietnam’s economy rebounds, the bank’s expanded digital platforms, customer offerings and deposit base put it on track for faster, more profitable growth.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.