Features
Open Or Shut? MENA Banks Under Pressure
New regulatory demands are changing banking relationships and, combined with rapid technological change, squeezing transaction banks in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Philippines’ Central Bank Chief Faces Early Test
The appointment of Nestor Espenilla Jr. as governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s less controversial decisions and may ease investor concerns over the stability of one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing economies.
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Proving Products
Global Finance: What are the unique features of the Al Nuwair Deposit Account? And what about the Eservice Gold Account? Fahad Khaled Al-Mukhaizeem: Al-Nuwair deposit is an innovative investment deposit that promises clients with expected profit rates based on the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ransomware Attack Highlights Weaknesses
For the 200,000-plus victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack, a short period of blame was replaced by awareness of the reality that complacency creates vulnerability.
News
Re-Elected, Rouhani Faces A New World
The re-election of moderate Hassan Rouhani for a second term as Iran’s president ends a chapter in Iran’s history,
Features
Rules-Based Approach To Currency Trading
Nils Waldmann, of Nordea eFX Solutions Connectivity Sales and AutoFX, tells how a customer request led the bank to break through internal silos.
Country Report
Russia: A Slow Pivot
Yulia Tseplyaeva, now chief economist for Russia at Sberbank, speaks about Russia’s pivot East and adjustment to ruble devaluation.
Features
Sankar Krishnan: Know Thy Risk
Writer Gordon Platt talks about Innovation with Sankar Krishan of CapGemini.
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The Future of Financial Innovation
Throughout history, there have been major transformative periods where a single innovation has wrought profound social and economic changes over the next century
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The Need For Speed
Do you have five milliseconds? Innovation has been fast and furious in the foreign-exchange market in the past year.
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Trade Finance Getting Its E-Legs
Processes that have changed relatively little over hundreds of years in trade finance are being catapulted into the 21st century, due to significant advances in data analytics, digitization and shared ledger technology. Once a forgotten backwater of transaction banking, trade ...
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Unprofitable Tesla Achieves Record Market Cap
Elon Musk, profitless billionaire first it surpassed Ford, then GM, then went head to head with Honda and flew past it.