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Award Winners

Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2025: North America

Real-time payments drive innovation and efficiency. RTP promises to make TCM banking more agile, integrated, and efficient. Leading North American banks are taking up the challenge.

Award Winners

Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2025: Western Europe

Supporting clients through uncertain times. Regional TCM banks are building out their networks to expand their client base while investing in new technologies, including digital money.

Award Winners

Best Treasury and Cash Management Awards 2025: Systems and Services

Treasury functions are keeping up with the dynamic payments environment.

Securing the Future of Digital Finance

As institutions and corporates stock up on digital assets, they must also ensure these are well safeguarded, says Ee Fong Soh, Group Head of Securities & Fiduciary Services at DBS.

Winner Insights

Andreea Parneci, Societe Generale: Navigating The Instant Payments Revolution

Andreea Parneci, deputy head of Global Transaction and Payment Services at Societe Generale, which won Best Bank for Transaction Banking, explains how the bank is addressing the new regulatory requirements and building a unified global transaction banking model.

Winner Insights

Loic Leonard, ION: Advanced Analytics And AI Tackle Treasury Challenges

ION is this year’s winner of the Best White Label System Provider – Non-Bank. Loic Leonard, head of product (Wallstreet Suite) at ION, discusses the technological foundations of a modern treasury.

Transaction Banking

Standard Bank: Reimagining Transaction Banking in Africa

Crosby Mkhwanazi, Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Bank’s Corporate and Investment Banking division, talks to Global Finance's Founder and Editorial Director, Joseph Giarraputo, about the capabilities, innovations and solutions that can empower clients with fast and agile payment solutions that also offer improved reliability and security.

Technology

AI Transforms The Finance Function

AI tools are driving efficiency and strategic gains—and fundamentally reshaping finance professionals’ roles.

How Central Bank Digital Currencies are Changing the Game

Historically, banks have been wary of digital currencies. As central banks begin to explore digital currencies, Naa Wilson, Head of Cross Border Payments at Standard Bank Group, says banks and treasurers who fail to get on board risk missing out.

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.

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.

Digital Banking for Rwandas Untapped Markets

Rwanda’s underbanked retail and commercial markets represent significant growth opportunities for Bank of Kigali (BK), Rwanda’s leading commercial bank. Dr. Diane Karusisi, BK’s CEO, discusses the bank’s growth, digital innovation and market expansion strategy.

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?