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Award Winners

Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2025: North America

Real-time payments drive innovation and efficiency. RTP promises to make TCM banking more agile, integrated, and efficient. Leading North American banks are taking up the challenge.

Award Winners

Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2025: Western Europe

Supporting clients through uncertain times. Regional TCM banks are building out their networks to expand their client base while investing in new technologies, including digital money.

Award Winners

Best Treasury and Cash Management Awards 2025: Systems and Services

Treasury functions are keeping up with the dynamic payments environment.

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.

Winner Insights

Andreea Parneci, Societe Generale: Navigating The Instant Payments Revolution

Andreea Parneci, deputy head of Global Transaction and Payment Services at Societe Generale, which won Best Bank for Transaction Banking, explains how the bank is addressing the new regulatory requirements and building a unified global transaction banking model.

Winner Insights

Loic Leonard, ION: Advanced Analytics And AI Tackle Treasury Challenges

ION is this year’s winner of the Best White Label System Provider – Non-Bank. Loic Leonard, head of product (Wallstreet Suite) at ION, discusses the technological foundations of a modern treasury.

Technology

AI Transforms The Finance Function

AI tools are driving efficiency and strategic gains—and fundamentally reshaping finance professionals’ roles.

Executive Interviews

Christopher Hodge, Natixis: Inside The Economic Crosswinds

Christopher Hodge, chief US economist at investment bank Natixis, shares his thoughts regarding the forces shaping the US economy. With a career spanning the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the US Department of the Treasury, and hedge funds, he offers a rare public and private perspective on today’s policy-driven landscape, the growing risk of an economic slowdown, and how recent policy decisions may be making it worse.

Nomo breaks new ground in Islamic digital banking

‘We continue to listen to customer needs,’ says Abdullah Al-Tuwaijri, CEO, Consumer, Private & Digital Banking of Boubyan Bank and board member of Bank of London and The Middle East, the largest Islamic bank in Europe

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Seven & i Acquisition Falls Through

The proposed $47 billion acquisition of Japan’s Seven & i Holdings by Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT) would have been the largest foreign takeover in Japanese history.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Japan: Prime Minister’s Waning Power Jolts Stability

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s grip on power weakened further after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and coalition partner Komeito lost their majority in Japan’s upper house elections on July 20.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Giovanni Ferrero Scoops Up WK Kellogg

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and Giovanni Ferrero knows it.

Transaction Banking

Will Reshoring Survive Trump’s Shifting Tariff Policy?

Can companies realistically pivot their manufacturing based on policy winds, or is this strategy more complicated than policymakers suggest?

Belfius: We Go Further For The Love Of Our Belgian Customers

Acclaimed for its cash management and trade finance expertise, Belfius Bank is leveraging its public-sector experience to innovate corporate transaction banking in Belgium. Koen Vierendeels, Belfius’s Head of Transaction Banking, discusses the customer-centric heart of the bank’s strategy and how its Belgian-market focus is a strong competitive advantage in achieving customer service excellence and navigating risk.

Technology

From Automation To Augmentation – AI In Finance Awards 2025

Global Finance introduces its first AI In Finance awards, recognizing the current AI revolution in finance.