Features
Old-World Banking Woos Asia’s New Rich
Private bankers need new strategies to make themselves relevant to Asia’s wealth creators.
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Poland’s Fight With The EU: Enter The Bison
European Court of Justice'sinterim measures against Poland for logging inthe Biaowiea forest further strains relations between the country and the EU spearking fears of a Polexit
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Q&A With Bank Leumi: Disruption And Transformation
Michal Kissos-Hertzog, head of innovation and digital at Bank Leumi, talks to Global Finance about mobile banking, millennials, investment products and their impacts.
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Q&A With Citi: Globally Great
Tapodyuti Bose, global head of channel & enterprise services for Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, spoke to Global Finance about the bank’s digital initiatives around the world.
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Q&A With ING Bank Slaski: What Clients Want
Adam Walendziewski, director of digital platforms agile centreING bank slaski, a digital bank of distinction this year, tells global finance about the ways the bank promotes a ‘digital first’ strategy.
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Q&A With SEB Lithuania: Digital Products Fuel Universal Ambitions
Vaidas Zagunis, member of the management board at SEB Lithuania and its head of retail banking, talks with Global Finance about the Swedish bank’s deployment of digital products to support its universal banking strategy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Renminbis International Use Falls Following Intervention
The Chinese central bank’s heavy-handed intervention in the currency markets earlier this year has triggered a decline in trading of the renminbi and a reversal in the rise of the Rmb in international payments.
News
Saudi Arabia Eyes 35,000 Jobs In Red Sea Tourism Push
The newly anointed heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is planning a mega tourism project that could possibly contribute 15 billion riyal ($4 billion) to the kingdom’s GDP and create up to 35,000 jobs.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Saudi Arabia Issuses First Domestic Sukuk
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Finance raised 17 billion riyals ($4.5 billion) in its first domestic sukuk issuance in late July.
News
Serbia Increases Its Allure For Foreign Investors
Serbia took pole position in the 2016 global performance index for greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) released by fDi Intelligence, an FT data division. It displacedVietnam, index leader for the two previous years.
Features
SME Finance | Mind The Gap
Bank service to smaller enterprises doesn’t reach the level of service they provide to their larger retail and industrial clients, leaving a gap that fintechs are eager to fill.
Country Report
Spanish Bank Reforms: Breaking Bad Cycles
The 2012 European bailout of the Spanish banks was probably the nadir of the Spanish financial and economic crisis butan aggressive approach to tackling its banking-system troubles setSpain apart from its Mediterranean neighbors such as Italy