Transaction Banking
Standard Chartered: Corporates Focus On Resilience In Global Trade And Supply Chains
Survey of 1,200 corporate leaders shows resilience, digitalization, and supply chain shifts driving trade strategy.
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Transaction Banking
SWIFT, Global Banks To Expand Blockchain Use
More than 30 of the largest banks worldwide join in the design, development, and testing of the new offering, SWIFT announced at the Sibos conference.
Transaction Banking
Finastra Unveils Intelligent Routing Module To Revolutionize Payments Processing
The new module is designed to help banks route payments faster, cheaper, and smarter across multiple rails.
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.
Transaction Banking
Merchants Eye PayTechs Amid Service Failures
Can banks stem the exodus of clients?
Technology
AI At Sibos 2025: From Theory To Transformation
From the bustling halls of Messe Frankfurt, Global Finance is reporting live from the opening day of Sibos 2025, where AI is dominating the conversation.
Technology
Tata Launches Digital Battery Passport
India’s Tata Technologies joined the rush last month to make digital battery passports (DBPs) standard issue for electric vehicles and industrial batteries, with the launch of WATTSync.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Target: New Chief Begins Next Year
Starting as a summer intern while still in business school and rising through the ranks to COO, Michael Fiddelke has spent over two decades working for the US big-box retailer Target.
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.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Uganda: Gold Mine Goes To China
Yoweri Museveni likes to profile himself as Africa’s biggest proponent of value addition.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
IKEA: First Non-Swedish Executive Named To Lead Retailer
Ingka Group, the holding company that operates most IKEA stores globally, has appointed as its next chief executive, Juvencio Maeztu, the first non-Swede to lead the group.
Banking
Emerging Market Private Credit Steps Up
Expanding economies and bank regulatory hurdles prompt emerging-market companies to tap the private credit market.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
ASEAN: Seeking Capital and Scale
ASEAN looks to international cooperation as China and the Gulf states join its summit for the first time.
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.
Transaction Banking
Treasury’s Strategic Weapon
Trade, tariff, and interest rate uncertainties are making effective cash management critical, rendering treasury’s role more vital than ever.