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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Middle East
Emirates NBD drives FX innovation across 50 currencies, combining speed, analytics, and its 4X platform to optimize client execution.
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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: North America
With an advanced infrastructure supporting a variety of trading, J.P. Morgan operates the most powerful FX franchise in North America.
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GW Platt Foreign Exchange Bank Awards 2026: Western Europe
UBS leverages algorithmic pricing, machine learning, and advanced volatility modeling to deliver fast, reliable FX execution across Europe and beyond.
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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.
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DBS Bank’s Li Zhen: Advancing Asian Currency Innovation
Li Zhen, head of Foreign Exchange and Digital Assets at DBS Bank—global award winner for Best FX Services for Banks—discusses what is shaping the future of interbank FX.
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Kyriba’s Bob Stark: Why Strategy Precedes AI
Bob Stark, global head of Market Strategy at Kyriba—winner of two global FX Tech awards—says lack of data visibility, not a lack of AI tools, is costing companies billions in currency losses.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Vodacom Takes Control Of Safaricom
South Africa’s largest mobile operator, Vodacom Group, announced that it will take control of Safaricom, East Africa’s biggest telecom, in a $2.4 billion transaction.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Bulgaria’s Looming Election Overshadows EU Membership
This year, Bulgarians will head to the polls. This election day will mark the eighth time since April 2021 that the Balkan nation has held parliamentary elections, securing its status as emerging Europe’s most politically volatile nation.
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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.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Coca-Cola Names New CEO
Henrique Braun “is an American citizen who was born in California and raised in Brazil.” He's also currently executive vice president and COO of Coca-Cola and will become the beverage giant’s new CEO effective March 31.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Lululemon’s McDonald Steps Down As CEO
Leisure and sportswear-maker Lululemon Athletica will start the year searching for a new chief executive, as CEO Calvin McDonald announced his departure during the company’s third-quarter earnings call in early December.
Insurance
The Structural Shift Redefining Insurance Risk
Social inflation, driven by litigation funding, looms as a global systemic risk in the insurance sector.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Global Salon: Aclara Takes On China In Rare Earth Processing
François Motte, CFO of Chilean-based Aclara Resources, explains the company’s vertical integration model, the economics of competing with China, and how pre-launch offtake agreements help fund development.
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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.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Breaking China’s Grip On Rare-Earth Elements
Can the rest of the world challenge Beijing’s dominance of high-performance magnets, used in everything from consumer electronics to weapon systems, by developing new mining, processing, and synthetic projects?