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Transaction Banking

Standard Bank: Reimagining Transaction Banking in Africa

Crosby Mkhwanazi, Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Bank’s Corporate and Investment Banking division, talks to Global Finance's Founder and Editorial Director, Joseph Giarraputo, about the capabilities, innovations and solutions that can empower clients with fast and agile payment solutions that also offer improved reliability and security.

Technology

AI Transforms The Finance Function

AI tools are driving efficiency and strategic gains—and fundamentally reshaping finance professionals’ roles.

Executive Interviews

Christopher Hodge, Natixis: Inside The Economic Crosswinds

Christopher Hodge, chief US economist at investment bank Natixis, shares his thoughts regarding the forces shaping the US economy. With a career spanning the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the US Department of the Treasury, and hedge funds, he offers a rare public and private perspective on today’s policy-driven landscape, the growing risk of an economic slowdown, and how recent policy decisions may be making it worse.

Eyeing a New Investment Banking Landscape in Nigeria

Global Finance: How are the capital-raising needs of Nigerian corporates evolving against today’s economic backdrop? Banjo Adegbohungbe: COVID-19 has created an urgent need for corporates everywhere to rethink how they finance their business operations. Amid the macroeconomic ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Seven & i Acquisition Falls Through

The proposed $47 billion acquisition of Japan’s Seven & i Holdings by Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT) would have been the largest foreign takeover in Japanese history.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Japan: Prime Minister’s Waning Power Jolts Stability

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s grip on power weakened further after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and coalition partner Komeito lost their majority in Japan’s upper house elections on July 20.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Giovanni Ferrero Scoops Up WK Kellogg

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and Giovanni Ferrero knows it.

Transaction Banking

Will Reshoring Survive Trump’s Shifting Tariff Policy?

Can companies realistically pivot their manufacturing based on policy winds, or is this strategy more complicated than policymakers suggest?

New Retail Banking for China’s Real Economy

A major retail bank with a unique endowment, Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) reported breakthrough business performance in 1H21, making gains in scale, quality and efficiency. With total assets and AUM for retail customers to RMB12 trillion respectively, a ...

Technology

News & Features Archive

Standard Bank: Reimagining Transaction Banking in Africa

AI Transforms The Finance Function

Christopher Hodge, Natixis: Inside The Economic Crosswinds

Eyeing a New Investment Banking Landscape in Nigeria

Seven & i Acquisition Falls Through

Japan: Prime Minister’s Waning Power Jolts Stability

Giovanni Ferrero Scoops Up WK Kellogg

Will Reshoring Survive Trump’s Shifting Tariff Policy?

New Retail Banking for China’s Real Economy

From Automation To Augmentation – AI In Finance Awards 2025

AI In Finance Awards 2025 | Corporate And Investment Banking

AI In Finance Awards 2025 | Consumer Banking

GCC Digital Upheaval – Fintechs vs. Banks

A Data Strategy, What For?

Investment Banking Surge In The GCC: From Oil To Assets