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Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2025

Following a strong performance in the prior year, Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) recorded a steady 2024, with the overall sector’s...

Winner Insights

Digitalizing The Future

Arab Bank is this year’s Best Bank in the Middle East. CEO Randa Sadik shares how investments in technology and the next generation of clients spurred its growth.

Winner Insights

Ready For Rough Waters

Wee Ee Cheong, deputy chairman and CEO of United Overseas Bank (UOB), named the Best Bank in Asia-Pacific, discusses what 2025 will bring.

COP28: A crucial waypoint in the Race to Zero

On 30 November, the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference begins in Dubai. With COP28 taking place in the United Arab Emirates, just one year after COP27 in Egypt, the concerns of developing economies will be at the forefront of the global climate agenda.

Banking

Former Top-Rated Bank Governor Mark Carney Elected To Lead Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada pulled off a stunning upset in the national election. By choosing Mark Carney—the former governor...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

AE Industrial’s ‘Captain’ Kirk Konert On Firefly Beating Musk’s SpaceX, PE Space Race

Global Finance: Congrats on Firefly’s Blue Ghost, which completed its lunar mission in March. Kirk Konert: It was a little...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFO Corner With SCHOTT Pharma’s Almuth Steinkühler

Global Finance: What has been the biggest challenge of your tenure as financial head of SCHOTT Pharma, given its new...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The Wind Shifts For Energy: Q&A With Marcia Hook And Ty’Meka Reeves-Sobers Of Clifford Chance

Global Finance: How has the outlook for the energy industry shifted under the new US administration? Marcia Hook: Under the...

ION: helping FX clients thrive in uncertain times

Foreign exchange trading is, like other investments, susceptible to the volatility that can plague us all in uncertain times. And the past few years have seen more uncertainty than most.

Transaction Banking

Embedded Finance Comes Of Age

Imagine a world where accessing trade finance is as simple as clicking a button, woven seamlessly into the fabric of...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Asia-Pacific: Economic Growth Taking Off

The Asia-Pacific region (APAC) will lead global economic growth over the next 15 years thanks to several factors, some of...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US Investors Swarm Italy’s Football Clubs And Stadiums

Serie A, B, and C teams are all in play as private equity firms join the “mad rush” to buy...

Insurance

Insurers’ Big Bet On Alternative Investments

Life insurance companies used to be conservative investors. For decades, they relied on long-term bonds—safe, steady, and predictable—to match their...

Bank of China: Accelerating Green Finance to Reach Climate Goals

Bank of China has integrated green development throughout itsoperations – from management and business development to financial products and services – with the goal of helping China achieve peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality goals.

Awards

World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Overview

Investment bankers hope to keep the momentum going after an active 2024. For the investment banking industry, 2024 was a...