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World’s Best Banks In The Caribbean 2025
The Caribbean economies have been broadly hit by slowing remittances and a cooling internal labor market. GDP for the Caribbean...
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World’s Best Banks in Western Europe 2025
Building on a profitable and dynamic 2023, when high interest rates buoyed bank lending margins, most Western European banks had...
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World’s Best Banks in Central and Eastern Europe 2025
The banking industry in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) faced a particularly challenging 2024, marked by a highly fluid interest...
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Sukuk Issuance Drives Egypt’s Economic Growth & Sustainable Finance
A leading provider of Sharia-compliant financial solutions in Egypt, ADIB Egypt spearheaded the country’s launch of Sukuk issuance, promising to increase Islamic banking and stimulate economic growth. Mohammed Aly, CEO of ADIB Egypt, discusses the bank’s role in Egypt’s approval of sovereign Sukuk issuance and the anticipated benefits for Sukuk issuers, market liquidity & sustainable finance.
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World’s Best Banks in Middle East 2025
The country winners for Best Banks in the Middle East region continue to aggressively implement a broad range of initiatives...
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World’s Best Banks in Africa 2025
African Banks ave operated in key markets outside the continent mainly through representative offices. Today, a shift is taking place....
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Brazil’s Agricultural Export Bonus
Donald Trump's new global tariff regime could be great for Brazil, it turns out. Here's why.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Investing In Lawsuits
Think that the class action plaintiffs' attorney has a good case? Now you can invest in it, says James Koutoulas, CEO of JurisTrade, which he calls "the first secondary marketplace for litigation assets."
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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.
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World’s Best Banks In Central America
Amid a slowdown in remittances and a weaker-than-expected gain in tourism, economic growth in Central America lost steam in 2024,...
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Germany Approves UniCredit Stake In Commerzbank
Last month, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office approved Italy’s second-largest lender’s plan to purchase a major stake in state-backed Commerzbank.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Ghana: Waiting for FDI
Ghana is picking up the pieces from its 2022 debt default. Political stability and business- friendly policies help, but foreign investment has not yet recovered.
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World’s Best Banks In North America 2025
As the North American banking sector navigates an increasingly competitive landscape, business models must be continually refined to meet and...
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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.
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World’s Best US Regional Banks 2025
This year’s winners for Best US Regional Banks employ aggressive strategies that continually refine existing business models to capture new...