Emerging & Frontier Markets
Panama: The Promise Of Positivity
As a new government takes office, optimism is growing that economic expansion will resume in Panama. But fiscal challenges, plus...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Nordic Finance: M&A And Partnerships Fuel Bank Growth
The Nordic financial sector is witnessing unprecedented bank-sector consolidation and fintech partnership-building activity. The surge in collaborative deals between traditional...
Banking
African Energy Bank’s Launch Hampered By Funding Problems
Oil-producing African countries, operating under the aegis of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO), have set up an African Energy...
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Leading by example – and innovation – in sustainable finance
“Sustainability is in our DNA,” says Hacina Py, who was recently appointed as Societe Generale’s Chief Sustainability Officer. They have been committed as a Group for a long time as they were one of the first banks to join the ...
Features
GCC Banking’s New Techno-Frontier
Generative AI could help the Gulf’s traditional banks wrest the competitive advantage back from challenger and neobanks. While artificial intelligence...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The Talent Tussle: CFOs Struggle With Hiring And Retention Challenges
CFOs are struggling to hire people with the right balance of quantitative and strategic skills in today’s increasingly tech-centric corporate...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFO Corner With Weave’s Alan Taylor
The NYSE-listed Weave connects patients and providers for appointments, forms, payments, and feedback with a SaaS platform for small- and...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Wealth Management Opportunities In The GCC Surge
Financial growth, a coming generational wealth transfer, and an influx of high-net-worth individuals is solidifying the region’s appeal as a...
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Transformation for a New Market Reality
Disruptive forces are increasingly defining Russia’s banking landscape. Amid the rapid pace of digitalisation, business models – and customer expectations – are changing. Corporate initiatives to create their own ecosystems have focused on identifying synergies and new niches, developing products ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
GCC: A Magnet For Global Capital
The region’s transformation has turned the six GCC states into attractive destinations for international financial institutions and FDI. Amid a...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
GCC Banks Face The Urge To Merge
Will Fed rate cuts and geopolitics fuel more M&A deals by GCC banks? Another year, another bumper crop of profits....
Banking
Challenging The Banks
Nonbanks have eaten into traditional banks’ marketplace. Can the older banks retake lost ground by simply becoming more agile? Once...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Czech Republic Central Bank Hits Target With Big Inflation Reversal
In an impressive turnaround, the Czech Republic’s consumer price index has sunk from a hefty 17.5% in February of last...
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FinTech Growth in MENA Spurred by Qatar, the New Home for FinTech in the Region
Prime markets for FinTech in the Middle East Considered an unsaturated market, the Middle East has become in recent years an attractive destination for FinTechs due to its large unbanked or underbanked young population, high cash usage, and recent regulatory ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Citadel’s Acquisition Boosts Power Market
In July, US global investment company and hedge fund Citadel LLC, announced their intent to acquire Japanese energy startup, Energy...