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Winner Insights

SAB’s Blueprint for Tokenized Islamic Finance

Saeed Assiri, chief innovation officer at Saudi Awwal Bank (SAB)—winner of Best Global Financial Innovation for Tokenized Islamic Repo—discusses the bank’s approach to blockchain usage and overcoming the issue of ecosystem coordination.

Winner Insights

Hawkish Capital CEO: How Tokenization, Sustainability Offer New Synergies

Edoardo Francesco Sabatino, CEO and founder of Hawkish Capital—a global winner in the Most Innovative Financial Technology Companies category—on using tokenization to expand the investor base for green assets.

Banking

Credit Squeeze Comes for Main Street as Bankruptcies Surge

Rising bankruptcies reflect a credit squeeze driven by cautious banks, higher rates, and deteriorating borrower cash flows nationwide right now.

Mirae Asset Securities: Embedding Innovation at the Core of Global Private Banking

Korea’s leading private bank has long prided itself on identifying the next frontier of investment opportunity. Today, that forward-leaning ethos has crystallised into what the firm calls its “Permanent Innovator DNA”—a mindset that blends advanced technology, digital assets, and global expertise to redefine wealth management for high-net-worth clients.

News

Wall Street Jobs Data Tell Diverging Stories in May

The latest U.S. job numbers for Wall Street don’t line up. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Hormuz Bottleneck: Gulf Energy Has a ‘Plan B’

The Strait of Hormuz was once treated as an unavoidable pathway of global energy flows. Now, Gulf producers are in desperate need of a workaround.

Executive Interviews

Siemens’ Heiko Nix Details the Corporate Treasury Tech Upgrade

Heiko Nix, Global Head of Cash Management and Payments at Siemens, discusses the shift to programmable, 24/7 payment systems, bets on tokenized money for corporate use, and explains how a lack of standardization turned a six-month API integration project into a three-year challenge.

Features

An Insurance War Without Borders

The maps have been redrawn. Not just on the ground in the Middle East, but inside the policy documents that...

Reimagining Banking with AI, Cloud, and Design Thinking

Speaking on the sidelines of Global Finance’s 2025 Global Bank Awards in Washington, D.C., Arun Jain—Chairman and Managing Director of Intellect, and Chief Architect of Purple Fabric—outlined a bold vision for what he calls the “fifth wave of banking”: an era defined by AI, Cloud and Design Thinking.

News

News & Features Archive

SAB’s Blueprint for Tokenized Islamic Finance

Hawkish Capital CEO: How Tokenization, Sustainability Offer New Synergies

Credit Squeeze Comes for Main Street as Bankruptcies Surge

Mirae Asset Securities: Embedding Innovation at the Core of Global Private Banking

Wall Street Jobs Data Tell Diverging Stories in May

Hormuz Bottleneck: Gulf Energy Has a ‘Plan B’

Siemens’ Heiko Nix Details the Corporate Treasury Tech Upgrade

An Insurance War Without Borders

Reimagining Banking with AI, Cloud, and Design Thinking

Visa, Mastercard Restart Business in Syria

Dangote’s IPO Tests African Capital Markets

Mega-Cap IPOs Make Major Waves for Index Investors

CFOs Confront a Fractured Global Order

Driving Islamic Finance Through Digital Excellence, Customer Focus

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