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World’s Safest Banks 2024: Global 50

Lower rates shift the competitive landscape for global banks as they scramble to adapt to the AI revolution. Already, their...

Awards

Tailored Offerings: Q&A With BTG Pactual’s Gabriel Motomura And Rogério Stallone

Gabriel Motomura, partner and co-head of BTG Pactual Empresas, and Rogério Stallone, BTG Pactual corporate credit partner and co-head of...

Award Winners

Stars Of China 2024: Innovation Nation

This year’s Stars of China honorees have been getting creative as they navigate banking’s difficult post-pandemic era. The toolbox is...

Virtual Roundtable on Digital Banking Transformation and Innovation

Banks are experiencing faster growth by collaborating with tech partners to build new revenue streams and create a unified customer experience.

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China’s Safest Banks 2024

Regulators seek to arrest economic slowdown. With China’s struggling economy, the country’s banking sector is facing significant growth headwinds, as...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Factsheet: QIA’s Key Investments

The QIA (Qatar Investment Authority) is the wealth manager of the State of Qatar. It was established in 2005 with...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFO Corner With QIA’s Niall Byrne: Remodeling Finance Function

Niall Byrne, chief financial officer of QIA (Qatar Investment Authority), the country’s wealth fund, discussed from Doha his two-year tenure...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Uber, Back On The Acquisition Trail, Eyes Expedia

Uber Technologies is reportedly considering an acquisition of online travel giant Expedia Group. The deal, should it happen, would represent...

Banking Business Trends 2021

Rajashekhara V Maiya, Global head of Business Consulting and Product Strategy for Infosys Finacle, discusses fivetrends affecting banks and financial service providers.

Sustainable Finance

COP29: Aliyev’s Moment In The Spotlight

Oil-dependent Baku seemed like an odd choice to host COP29. But the economy is betting heavily on developing a renewables...

Transaction Banking

SWIFT To Launch AI-Backed Fraud-Detection Service

Global banking cooperative SWIFT plans to ring in 2025 by launching AI-enhanced fraud detection capabilities. The new function will give...

Banking

ADQ To Purchase Odeabank

Abu Dhabi Development Holding Company (ADQ) has agreed to acquire a 96% stake in Bank Audi’s loss-making Turkish subsidiary, Odeabank,...

Banking

BBVA Pursues Banco Sabadell Takeover Despite Opposition

Spanish bank BBVA recently saw one of its biggest backers, GQG Partners, call it quits and sell its stake due...

One of Russia’s top providers of digital corporate banking solutions, Sberbank created a comprehensive business banking ecosystem driven by AI and big data. Anna Loevskaya, Sberbank’s Director of Digital Corporate Banking,discusses the bank’s strategy for rising digital demand, self-service digital UX, and omnichannel integration, and how Russia’s largest bank is fast becoming one of its leading tech innovators.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Asia’s Race For Talent

Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are intensifying efforts to attract foreign workers amid labor shortages and aging populations. Each country...