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Credit By Another Name
Buy-now-pay-later offers SMEs an alternate credit source. Although generally available in the consumer market for about a decade, the electronic...
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World’s Best Trade Finance Providers 2025
Tariffs, supply chain shifts, and trade digitalization demand adaptability, risk management, and banking partnerships. As President Donald Trump starts his...
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World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2025
Supply chain finance boosts resilience, liquidity, and ESG goals amid deglobalization and technological shifts. As the world edges toward an...
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Sukuk Issuance Drives Egypt’s Economic Growth & Sustainable Finance
A leading provider of Sharia-compliant financial solutions in Egypt, ADIB Egypt spearheaded the country’s launch of Sukuk issuance, promising to increase Islamic banking and stimulate economic growth. Mohammed Aly, CEO of ADIB Egypt, discusses the bank’s role in Egypt’s approval of sovereign Sukuk issuance and the anticipated benefits for Sukuk issuers, market liquidity & sustainable finance.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFO Corner: Boudewijn Van Schaïk Of Avantium
Since January 2023, Boudewijn van Schaïk has been CFO of Amsterdam-based Avantium. Listed on Euronext, the chemicals company develops and...
Awards
Global Finance Spotlights 25 Years Of Honoring Trade Finance Innovation
In hindsight, summer 2001 was a precarious time to launch an annual ranking of the world’s Best Trade Finance Banks....
Winner Insights
Data-Driven Insights For Supply Chain Finance Clients: Q&A With Societe Generale Factoring’s Aurélien Viry And Gilbert Cordier
Aurélien Viry, CEO, and Gilbert Cordier, head of Supply Chain Finance at Societe Generale Factoring, discuss how fintech partnerships and...
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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,...
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Closing Ethiopia’s Financing Gaps Creates New Banking Markets
Digital banking and customisation is rapidly expanding Awash Bank’s markets for banking services among Ethiopia’s SMEs and underbanked retail customers. Henock Tessema, Chief, Retail & SME Banking Officer, Awash Bank, Ethiopia, discusses how the bank’s strategy to foster entrepreneurship, close the SME financing gap, and bank the unbanked is supporting Ethiopia’s economic growth.
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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...
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...
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COP 27: Time to Accelerate Global Climate Action
COP 27 comes at a critical time. The world is facing immediate and significant challenges. Not only has the last seven years been the warmest on record, but the Russian-Ukraine War has created serious cereal and foodstuff shortages for numerous countries, including many in Africa, and the sharp rise in energy prices have impacted costs, people’s incomes, and growth. Geopolitical risk has focused more attention on climate change.
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...