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Best Corporate/Institutional Digital Banks in Western Europe 2025

Banks across Western Europe are reimagining financial services by blending traditional strengths with fintech-inspired innovations, creating more integrated, digital-first, and customer-centric experiences.

Winner Insights

Driving Corporate Client Success In Real-Time: Q&A With Citi’s Naveed Anwar

Naveed Anwar, Citi’s global head of Platforms and Data Services, discusses enhancing client experience in a real-time environment.

Winner Insights

Building A Global Financial Super-App With A Local Touch: Q&A With Revolut’s David Tirado

David Tirado, Revolut’s VP of Profitability and Global Business, explains how a digital-only approach facilitates localized international expansion.

Tunisias Banking Future Emerges From its Past

With roots reaching back over 100 years, AMEN Bank is among Tunisia’s most successful and dynamic banks today. Néji Ghandri, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Amen Bank, explains how the bank has sustained its strong position over many decades and continues to bring market-leading innovation in Tunisia’s financial sector.

Data

Richest Countries in the World 2025

Many of the world’s richest countries are also the world’s smallest: the pandemic, the global economic slowdown and geopolitical turmoil have barely made a dent in their huge wealth.

Banking

Standard Chartered Launches Crypto Spot Trading

Banking giant Standard Chartered has introduced an amenity for the spot trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum via a fully integrated digital asset service, through its UK branch for institutional clients, including corporates, investors and asset managers.

Banking

Argentina: Revolut Acquires Cetelem

UK fintech Revolut will enter the Argentine market after agreeing to purchase Cetelem Argentina from BNP Paribas Personal Finance.

Technology

Companies Face AI Buyer’s Remorse

Companies adopted AI quickly, hoping to increase productivity and reduce their costs by eliminating part of their workforce.

Techcombank is delivering on its vision to change banking, change lives in Vietnam

Vietnam’s banking industry is evolving rapidly driven by a digital transformation that is making everyday banking simple, easy, and convenient for customers across the country. Being at the forefront of this change offers huge potential for growth, says Pranav Seth, Chief Digital Officer at Techcombank.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Ecuador: Aiming For A Turnaround

With an economic restructuring in the works, Ecuador is positioning itself to ride the tensions between the US and China to an economic rebound in 2025.

Banking

Ripple In Banking License Push

Crypto company Ripple has applied to US regulators for a national bank charter, as the distinction between digital asset firms and traditional financial institutions becomes increasingly blurred.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Singapore: Project Bonds Chart Course For Success In FPSO Financing

Singapore-headquartered Yinson Production recently issued a record-breaking $1.168 billion bond for a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit in Brazil.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

United Kingdom: Capital Markets Flounder

The state of the United Kingdom’s capital markets is perilous. IPO activity has fallen to its lowest levels in 30-years.

Adaptation and Changing Culture to Meet Sustainability Goals

African governments are developing ambitious adaptation policies aligned with society development goals, and an enabling environment for finance and investment. There has been an increase in framework and climate change laws across Africa, including in Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, Benin, Uganda and South Africa.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

De Meo To Lead Luxury Group Kering

The French luxury giant Kering, parent company of Saint Laurent and Gucci, is getting a new CEO, Luca de Meo. And surprisingly he is not a longtime ready-to-wear afficionado but a car industry veteran.