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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: FX Tech Global Winners

This year’s Best FX Tech Awards recognize the institutions and providers setting the benchmark for innovation, resilience, and client-centric design across global currency markets.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Global Winners

This year’s Best FX Banks Global Winners list recognizes the institutions that distinguished themselves by converting market complexity into opportunity.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Africa

Ecobank leverages digital FX and trade finance platforms across multiple African markets, streamlining payments and liquidity solutions.

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.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Asia-Pacific

UOB's disciplined pricing approach, extensive ASEAN footprint, and ability to efficiently connect regional FX flows with major global markets is a testament to the trust it commands across a diverse client base.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Central & Eastern Europe

OTP Bank’s Budapest FX hub brings together 10 traders and 25 sales professionals across dedicated spot, money market, and options desks, powered by automated pricing.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Latin America

BTG Pactual delivers best-in-class FX execution across Latin America, driving volume growth through automation, platform upgrades, and regional expansion.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Middle East

Emirates NBD drives FX innovation across 50 currencies, combining speed, analytics, and its 4X platform to optimize client execution.

ION: helping FX clients thrive in uncertain times

Foreign exchange trading is, like other investments, susceptible to the volatility that can plague us all in uncertain times. And the past few years have seen more uncertainty than most.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: North America

With an advanced infrastructure supporting a variety of trading, J.P. Morgan operates the most powerful FX franchise in North America.

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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Western Europe

UBS leverages algorithmic pricing, machine learning, and advanced volatility modeling to deliver fast, reliable FX execution across Europe and beyond.

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DBS Bank’s Li Zhen: Advancing Asian Currency Innovation

Li Zhen, head of Foreign Exchange and Digital Assets at DBS Bank—global award winner for Best FX Services for Banks—discusses what is shaping the future of interbank FX.

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Kyriba’s Bob Stark: Why Strategy Precedes AI

Bob Stark, global head of Market Strategy at Kyriba—winner of two global FX Tech awards—says lack of data visibility, not a lack of AI tools, is costing companies billions in currency losses.

Bank of China: Accelerating Green Finance to Reach Climate Goals

Bank of China has integrated green development throughout itsoperations – from management and business development to financial products and services – with the goal of helping China achieve peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality goals.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Vodacom Takes Control Of Safaricom

South Africa’s largest mobile operator, Vodacom Group, announced that it will take control of Safaricom, East Africa’s biggest telecom, in a $2.4 billion transaction.