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Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2025
Following a strong performance in the prior year, Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) recorded a steady 2024, with the overall sector’s...
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Winner Insights
Digitalizing The Future
Arab Bank is this year’s Best Bank in the Middle East. CEO Randa Sadik shares how investments in technology and the next generation of clients spurred its growth.
Winner Insights
Ready For Rough Waters
Wee Ee Cheong, deputy chairman and CEO of United Overseas Bank (UOB), named the Best Bank in Asia-Pacific, discusses what 2025 will bring.
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Redefining Trade Finance
Widespread supply chain disruption during the pandemic put a spotlight on outdated trade finance processes. Now, corporates focused on digital transformation are redefining the financial supply chain as a resilient trade ecosystem, according to Sriram Muthukrishnan, Group Head of Trade Product Management, at DBS.
Banking
Former Top-Rated Bank Governor Mark Carney Elected To Lead Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada pulled off a stunning upset in the national election. By choosing Mark Carney—the former governor...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
AE Industrial’s ‘Captain’ Kirk Konert On Firefly Beating Musk’s SpaceX, PE Space Race
Global Finance: Congrats on Firefly’s Blue Ghost, which completed its lunar mission in March. Kirk Konert: It was a little...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFO Corner With SCHOTT Pharma’s Almuth Steinkühler
Global Finance: What has been the biggest challenge of your tenure as financial head of SCHOTT Pharma, given its new...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
The Wind Shifts For Energy: Q&A With Marcia Hook And Ty’Meka Reeves-Sobers Of Clifford Chance
Global Finance: How has the outlook for the energy industry shifted under the new US administration? Marcia Hook: Under the...
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Customer-Centric Banking: The Need is Imperative and Immediate
For the longest time, the branch was the undisputed center of the banking universe and everything revolved around it. In the last 20 years, banking transactions have moved from 50% in-branch to 95% digital self-service channels with customer experience at its center.
Transaction Banking
Embedded Finance Comes Of Age
Imagine a world where accessing trade finance is as simple as clicking a button, woven seamlessly into the fabric of...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Asia-Pacific: Economic Growth Taking Off
The Asia-Pacific region (APAC) will lead global economic growth over the next 15 years thanks to several factors, some of...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
US Investors Swarm Italy’s Football Clubs And Stadiums
Serie A, B, and C teams are all in play as private equity firms join the “mad rush” to buy...
Insurance
Insurers’ Big Bet On Alternative Investments
Life insurance companies used to be conservative investors. For decades, they relied on long-term bonds—safe, steady, and predictable—to match their...
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Risk Rewards Diversification
Adel A. El-Labban, Group CEO & MD of Ahli United Bank B.S.C., discusses how strategic geographic diversification and anticipation of changing market demand were key to the bank’s resilient pandemic performance.
Awards
World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Overview
Investment bankers hope to keep the momentum going after an active 2024. For the investment banking industry, 2024 was a...