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Banking

Egypt: United Bank Stake For Sale

Egypt’s government plans to sell a stake in United Bank via an initial public offering (IPO) during the first quarter...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Game Time: Q&A With Clifford Chance’s Neil Barlow

Neil Barlow, a private equity M&A partner at Clifford Chance, speaks to Global Finance about his focus and experience on...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

European Union: Riberia Gets Role As Hybrid Commissioner

Teresa Ribera’s appointment as European Union executive vice-president for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition places her in the hybrid...

Powering New Banking Business Models with Open Banking Platforms

While the concept of Open Banking has been around for some years, the industry mostly espoused it for the sake of regulatory compliance.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SPACs Try For A Comeback

Is the SPAC back? Maybe, a little. As a group, special purpose acquisition companies have crashed and burned spectacularly. Some...

Data

World’s Largest Companies In 2024

Global Finance ranks the ten largest companies in the world by market capitalization.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Treasurers Proceeding With Caution

Corporate treasury professionals are reassessing investment strategies to stay agile and conserve cash amid interest rate shifts and geopolitical uncertainty....

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The Treasury Function Gets Strategic

New tools and techniques, including AI and ML, are helping treasurers to optimize cash flow—and giving them a bigger role...

Customer Centricity with a Modern Twist

Bank Millennium puts its customers’ needs at the forefront of its strategy.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The Czech Republic: Looking To Diversify

Czechia engineers a shift from heavy industry to green energy and high tech as it recovers from last year’s recession....

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Stakes Rising In The US-China AI Race

The intensifying competition between the United States and China over artificial intelligence (AI) is not merely an extension of their...

Executive Interviews

CFO Corner With Groupe Berkem’s Anthony Labrugnas

Anthony Labrugnas has been the chief financial officer of Groupe Berkem, a France-based chemical group, for nearly 10 years. Berkem...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Risky Business: Q&A With BMI’s Yoel Sano

Yoel Sano, head of Global Political and Security Risk at BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, speaks with Global Finance about...

Welcome to The New Era of Democratized Banking

More than ever, power lies in the hands of the customer. Digitally savvy consumers are driving banking evolution, forcing banks to operate like technology companies in an age of neobanks and AI-based solutions. Ellis Wang, Head of Technology, Transformation, and Information at ‎Mashreq Bank explains why it’s ‘do-or-die’ for legacy banks.

Award Winners

World’s Best Digital Banks 2024: Round 1

Changing customer expectations and the need to maintain a competitive edge continue to drive digital banking as both consumer and...