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World’s Best Digital Banks 2025: Round II—Corporate Winners
This year’s winners highlight the banks that are leading digital transformation in the corporate and institutional sector.
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World’s Best Digital Banks 2025: Round II—Corporate Regional
From AI integration to tokenization: Regional leaders are looking to digital innovation to cut costs, increase efficiency, and deliver on an expanding menu of client needs and expectations.
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World’s Best Digital Banks 2025: Round II—Consumer Regional
‘Phygital’ strategies and tools help consumer banks blend advanced technology and AI with accessibility and financial inclusion.
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The Role of Banks & Financial Products in Reducing Environmental Impact
Banks have a vital role in supporting the global transition of the economy to net-zero emissions. Banks stress the need for institutional capacity development, along with regulatory and other policy reforms, to support and accelerate climate finance from domestic and external sources, both public and private, for climate resilience in Africa.
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World’s Best Digital Banks 2025: Round II—Islamic Regional
Digital-first institutions are rapidly incorporating AI and other transformative tech into their Islamic banking practice.
Executive Interviews
Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna On Innovation, Heritage, And The Road Ahead
Vigna discusses his four years of leading an iconic brand through rapid technological change, balancing tradition with progress, and steering growth from Maranello, Italy, to the global stage.
Winner Insights
Pioneering Digital Transformation And Human-Centric Finance
Giorgi Vakhtangishvili, chief digital officer at Bank of Georgia, discusses how an ecosystem mindset, in-house innovation, and contextual finance drive human-centric digital experiences.
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Agentic Bots Revolutionize Digital Banking Experience
Isbank Deputy CEO Sezgin Lüle, whose bank won the World’s Best Mobile Banking App award, explains how LLMs and partnerships enable hyper-personalized financial services and foster a “super-app” ecosystem.
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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.
Executive Interviews
CFO Corner: Nitesh Sharan, SoundHound AI
Global Finance: What stands out as your main achievements leading finance at SoundHound AI? Nitesh Sharan: When I joined SoundHound,...
Features
Qatar: A New World Capital For Wealth?
Qatar’s LNG-driven prosperity is reshaping both its domestic eco-nomy and its international footprint.
Executive Interviews
Qatar: Evolving Dynamics
Abdulla Mubarak Al Khalifa, Group CEO of Qatar National Bank, speaks with Global Finance about the bank’s international strategy and the opportunities shaping QNB’s next phase of growth.
Executive Interviews
Qatar: Doha Bank’s Dimitrios Kokosioulis On Banks’ Capital-Light Strategy
Dimitrios Kokosioulis, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Doha Bank, one of Qatar’s leading commercial banks and digital banking pioneer, speaks with Global Finance about the bank’s partnership with digital payment solution Paytabs to support SMEs and e-commerce platforms.
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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.
Features
Qatar: LNG Riches Fuel Wider Expansion
Qatar’s financial sector is powering up for the next liquified natural gas boom. But other fast-growing sectors are looking to benefit from the new wealth inflow as well.