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World’s Safest Banks 2025: Country Winners
Global Finance presents the safest banks by country for 2025.
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Executive Interviews
Beltone’s Khalil El Bawab On Challenges And Growth In MENA Financial Services
Beltone is a financial services group with 24 diversified funds and more than 100,000 clients. Khalil El Bawab, CEO of the Local & Regional Markets Division, shares the firm’s growth plans and challenges with Global Finance.
Awards
World’s Safest Banks 2025: Islamic Banks In GCC
GCC banking institutions display the importance of growing open banking.
Sponsored Content
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.
Awards
World’s Safest Banks 2025: Commercial Top 50
Commercial banks are refining their models to reach new customers and markets.
Awards
World’s Safest Banks 2025: Emerging Markets Top 50
Emerging markets are navigating new risks from tariffs.
Awards
World’s Safest Banks 2025: Global 100
Global Finance’s 2025 rankings expand the World’s Safest Banks from the Global Top 50 to the Top 100, offering a broader view of the sector and deeper insight into its resilience.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Commodities: Gold’s Wild Ride
Gold staged a dramatic recovery on October 22, climbing to $4,159 per ounce after two days of heavy selloffs that included significant outflows from gold-backed exchange-traded funds.
Sponsored Content
Growth Opportunities in Kuwait’s Dynamic Capital Markets
Named “2023 Best Debt Bank in the Middle East” by Global Finance, Kamco Invest is well-positioned to drive innovation and growth in the region's capital markets, says Abdullah AlSharekh, Managing Director of Markets & Investment Banking.
Features
Global Salon: Charting The Future of Drones – Battlefield To Business
Aerospace and defense technologies company AIRO Group Holding’s IPO debuted in June on the strength of its record as a drone developer and manufacturer. CEO Joe Burns and Executive Chairman Chirinjeev Kathuria discuss how drones are transforming industries from defense to commercial applications: all under the watchful eyes of Wall Street.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Bolivia: Underdog Becomes New President
Bolivians have delivered a decisive rebuke to two decades of socialist governance, electing centrist senator Rodrigo Paz as president and ending the leftist Movement for Socialism’s dominance ever since Evo Morales first took power in 2005.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Japan: First Female Prime Minister Faces Crossroads
Sanae Takaichi’s rise as Japan’s first female prime minister marks a historic moment for the country and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), but one overshadowed by political fragility and economic uncertainty.
Banking
Banks At The Crossroads
Strengthened by recent profits, global banks enter a new phase defined by falling rates, political volatility, and the disruptive promise of AI.
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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.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Armenia: Beyond The Peace Dividend
Thawing relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey are creating opportunities for Armenia to expand its economy and emerge as a regional investment hub.