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The Innovators 2025: Middle East

Over the past year, banks embraced innovative technologies like APIs, AI tools, and mobile solutions to enhance efficiency, customer service, and risk management. Global Finance announces the 2025 Innovators from Middle East.

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The Innovators 2025: North America

Global Finance announces the 2025 Innovators from North America.

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The Innovators 2025: Western Europe

Regional Winners Most Innovative Bank in Western Europe | SOCIETE GENERALE Societe Generale’s Global Transaction and Payment Services division has...

Transformation for a New Market Reality

Disruptive forces are increasingly defining Russia’s banking landscape. Amid the rapid pace of digitalisation, business models – and customer expectations – are changing. Corporate initiatives to create their own ecosystems have focused on identifying synergies and new niches, developing products ...

Features

Reimagining AI’s Role In Finance

From compliance to stablecoins to microbusinesses, fintech labs germinate next-gen uses for AI.

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Best Financial Innovation Labs 2025

Financial Services Company Labs (Working With External Startups and Scaleups) Many FIs host labs nurturing outside startups. These labs operate...

Executive Interviews

McKinsey’s Koller: Valuation Isn’t Broken—Expectations Are

Global Finance: To what extent does geography play a role in affecting a company’s valuation? Koller: It applies to most...

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Manish Kohli: Innovating Payments At HSBC

Manish Kohli, head of Global Payments Solutions at HSBC, discusses the bank’s digital-payments strategy and how it is innovating in transaction banking. HSBC was named one of Global Finance’s Most Innovative Banks.

FinTech Growth in MENA Spurred by Qatar, the New Home for FinTech in the Region

Prime markets for FinTech in the Middle East Considered an unsaturated market, the Middle East has become in recent years an attractive destination for FinTechs due to its large unbanked or underbanked young population, high cash usage, and recent regulatory ...

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Absa Group: Digitally Enabled

Michelle Knowles is managing executive for Trade and Working Capital (Pan Africa) at regional winner Absa Group. She discusses how innovation and technology is changing finance in Africa.

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Galaxy Digital: Tokenization Approaches The Mainstream

Thomas Cowan, VP of tokenization at regional winner Galaxy Digital, explains why the digital asset company tokenized a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin.

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Banco Cuscatlan Driving Innovations In Latin America

Global Finance spoke with Rafael Ernesto Barrientos Interiano, Director of Technology and Digital Transformation at Banco Cuscatlan, about innovations in banking in Latin America and how Banco Cuscatlan uses technology to create a better customer experience.

Editor's Letter

Innovation In An Age of Uncertainty

Uncertainty continues to cloud the global economic horizon, with tariffs remaining a dominant con- cern in both political and financial...

Green Finance for a Greener Future

As companies globally are developing ESG strategies to address climate change, Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) has put environmental protection at the center of its banking, governance, and operational strategy, with significant initiatives for developing green finance and reducing ...

Technology

Paul Brody, EY: How Blockchain Is Transforming Global Commerce

Paul Brody is global blockchain leader at professional services firm EY and co-author of a 2023 book, Ethereum for Business: A Plain-English Guide to the Use Cases that Generate Returns from Asset Management to Payments to Supply Chains. He speaks with Global Finance about blockchain technology’s impact on everything from routine payments to cross-border remittances to the future of banking and the CFO and treasurer roles.