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Driving Corporate Client Success In Real-Time: Q&A With Citi’s Naveed Anwar
Naveed Anwar, Citi’s global head of Platforms and Data Services, discusses enhancing client experience in a real-time environment.
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Building A Global Financial Super-App With A Local Touch: Q&A With Revolut’s David Tirado
David Tirado, Revolut’s VP of Profitability and Global Business, explains how a digital-only approach facilitates localized international expansion.
Banking
Standard Chartered Launches Crypto Spot Trading
Banking giant Standard Chartered has introduced an amenity for the spot trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum via a fully integrated digital asset service, through its UK branch for institutional clients, including corporates, investors and asset managers.
Sponsored Content
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.
Banking
Argentina: Revolut Acquires Cetelem
UK fintech Revolut will enter the Argentine market after agreeing to purchase Cetelem Argentina from BNP Paribas Personal Finance.
Technology
Companies Face AI Buyer’s Remorse
Companies adopted AI quickly, hoping to increase productivity and reduce their costs by eliminating part of their workforce.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Ecuador: Aiming For A Turnaround
With an economic restructuring in the works, Ecuador is positioning itself to ride the tensions between the US and China to an economic rebound in 2025.
Banking
Ripple In Banking License Push
Crypto company Ripple has applied to US regulators for a national bank charter, as the distinction between digital asset firms and traditional financial institutions becomes increasingly blurred.
Sponsored Content
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.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Singapore: Project Bonds Chart Course For Success In FPSO Financing
Singapore-headquartered Yinson Production recently issued a record-breaking $1.168 billion bond for a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit in Brazil.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
United Kingdom: Capital Markets Flounder
The state of the United Kingdom’s capital markets is perilous. IPO activity has fallen to its lowest levels in 30-years.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
De Meo To Lead Luxury Group Kering
The French luxury giant Kering, parent company of Saint Laurent and Gucci, is getting a new CEO, Luca de Meo. And surprisingly he is not a longtime ready-to-wear afficionado but a car industry veteran.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
GCC: Managing Tensions And Mega Deals
Amid regional upheavals, Gulf states are asserting their influence and betting on a vast economic transformation.
Sponsored Content
Digital Revolution Roundtable: Building for Change
Banks are overcoming resistance by introducing a culture of transformation.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
The GCC Welcomes Wellness Tourism
High-end wellness resorts, clinics, and spas are part of ambitious national development programs in Saudi Arabia and its neighbors.