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AI Transforms The Finance Function
AI tools are driving efficiency and strategic gains—and fundamentally reshaping finance professionals’ roles.
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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.
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.
Sponsored Content
Closing Ethiopia’s Financing Gaps Creates New Banking Markets
Digital banking and customisation is rapidly expanding Awash Bank’s markets for banking services among Ethiopia’s SMEs and underbanked retail customers. Henock Tessema, Chief, Retail & SME Banking Officer, Awash Bank, Ethiopia, discusses how the bank’s strategy to foster entrepreneurship, close the SME financing gap, and bank the unbanked is supporting Ethiopia’s economic growth.
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?
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.
Sponsored Content
COP 27: Time to Accelerate Global Climate Action
COP 27 comes at a critical time. The world is facing immediate and significant challenges. Not only has the last seven years been the warmest on record, but the Russian-Ukraine War has created serious cereal and foodstuff shortages for numerous countries, including many in Africa, and the sharp rise in energy prices have impacted costs, people’s incomes, and growth. Geopolitical risk has focused more attention on climate change.
Award Winners
AI In Finance Awards 2025 | Corporate And Investment Banking
The game changer. As AI penetrates deeper into banking, institutions look past its novelty to make sure their investment yields value.
Award Winners
AI In Finance Awards 2025 | Consumer Banking
From rule-based to responsive. AI is transforming consumer lending. But to succeed, human capital must be as big a priority as technological advances.
Technology
GCC Digital Upheaval – Fintechs vs. Banks
Gulf fintechs are challenging banks’ and brokerages’ long-standing dominance, as the GCC forcefully pursues a digital future.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Investment Banking Surge In The GCC: From Oil To Assets
Corporate and investment banking revenues in the Gulf are burgeoning as lenders underwrite the region’s economic transformation.
Sponsored Content
Sustainable Banking for Palestines Real Economy
Palestine’s sustainable banking leader for 62 years, Bank of Palestine (BoP) represents the future of banking with high-impact sustainable finance initiatives, gender & financial inclusion, and digital innovation. Mahmoud Shawa, BoP’s CEO, discusses the bank’s strategic commitment to sustainability and its role supporting Palestine’s economic growth and climate change goals.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Velong Chief Jacob Rothman Calculates Cost Of New Trade Environment
Jacob Rothman, President and CEO at Shanghai-headquartered Velong enterprises, a cooking equipment manufacturer and exporter, navigates shifting tariff and trade policies.