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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Nordic Finance: M&A And Partnerships Fuel Bank Growth

The Nordic financial sector is witnessing unprecedented bank-sector consolidation and fintech partnership-building activity. The surge in collaborative deals between traditional...

Banking

African Energy Bank’s Launch Hampered By Funding Problems

Oil-producing African countries, operating under the aegis of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO), have set up an African Energy...

Features

GCC Banking’s New Techno-Frontier

Generative AI could help the Gulf’s traditional banks wrest the competitive advantage back from challenger and neobanks. While artificial intelligence...

The future of banking is not only digital, it may be digital-only

Digitization didn’t just help banks transform; it pushed them to reimagine the business. With transactions migrating en masse to digital channels in the Covid pandemic, banks should not only speed up their transformation programs but also revisit the scope of their role in customers’ lives. Establishing digital-only proposition would set them up nicely for the digital age, at scale.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The Talent Tussle: CFOs Struggle With Hiring And Retention Challenges

CFOs are struggling to hire people with the right balance of quantitative and strategic skills in today’s increasingly tech-centric corporate...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFO Corner With Weave’s Alan Taylor

The NYSE-listed Weave connects patients and providers for appointments, forms, payments, and feedback with a SaaS platform for small- and...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Wealth Management Opportunities In The GCC Surge

Financial growth, a coming generational wealth transfer, and an influx of high-net-worth individuals is solidifying the region’s appeal as a...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

GCC: A Magnet For Global Capital

The region’s transformation has turned the six GCC states into attractive destinations for international financial institutions and FDI. Amid a...

Migration to ISO 20022: Delayed, Not Dead

Needed, a global standard in banking.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

GCC Banks Face The Urge To Merge

Will Fed rate cuts and geopolitics fuel more M&A deals by GCC banks? Another year, another bumper crop of profits....

Banking

Challenging The Banks

Nonbanks have eaten into traditional banks’ marketplace. Can the older banks retake lost ground by simply becoming more agile? Once...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Czech Republic Central Bank Hits Target With Big Inflation Reversal

In an impressive turnaround, the Czech Republic’s consumer price index has sunk from a hefty 17.5% in February of last...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Citadel’s Acquisition Boosts Power Market

In July, US global investment company and hedge fund Citadel LLC, announced their intent to acquire Japanese energy startup, Energy...

Digital By Design

Digitizing more than 80% of its retail banking services proved a timely strategic move for Sberbank, Russia's largest bank. During the pandemic, customers could access most banking services while socially distancing and the bank launched new services quickly that helped customers facing financial hardship and uncertainty.

Transaction Banking

Best Treasury And Cash Management Providers 2024: Global And Country Winners

Staying ahead of the cash management game is vital for treasurers facing multiple challenges, such as economic and political uncertainties,...