Economics, Policy & Regulation
The Changing Face Of FDI
After years of lackluster growth, foreign direct investment is growing. As recent history has consistently demonstrated, there is nothing...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Introduction
Global banking aced 2023 despite the drama of bank failures. The banking industry emerged triumphant in 2023, a year that...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Asia-Pacific
However, the second-largest economy remains conspicuously absent. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region last year—as in 2022—net interest margin (NIM) dynamics...
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National Bank of Kuwait: Leading Through Sustainability
As Kuwait’s Vision 2035 national development plan calls on the country to become a financial and cultural leader in the Middle East, NBK Group Chairman Nasser Musaed Al-Sayer says the bank’s strategic sustainability initiatives put NBK at the forefront of Kuwait’s future transformation.
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Central America
Post-pandemic growth meets soaring remittances. Central American economies have flourished in the pandemic’s aftermath due to the region’s lower-than-average inflation,...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Central And Eastern Europe
With war in their midst and a challenging macroeconomic environment regionally and globally, it wasn’t an easy year for banks...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Latin America
Banks show solid performance but regional economies didn’t fare as well. It was an overall solid year for Latin American...
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2024 Private Bank Awards Dinner
Global Finance hosted this year’s Private Bank Awards Dinner on the evening of March 21, 2024. Convening in the iconic...
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A ‘Millenniums’ Thing: The Customer-Driven Future of Banking
The latest banking revolution is customer driven, and Portugal’s Millennium bcp is at the forefront of innovative, customer-centric retail banks that literally put the bank into their customers’ pockets.
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Middle East
Leading Middle Eastern banks offer a bumper crop of online services. With their deep knowledge of domestic and regional markets,...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—North America
Banks blend the best of high-touch services and low-touch environments. For the Best Bank winners in North America, aggressive innovation...
Economic Data
Inflation Rate 2024: A Global Comparison
The Consumer Price Index only tells part of the story. Two years ago, inflation reached a 40-year high in the...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Western Europe
Banks see client growth and a bump in transactions and sustainable lending. Most Western European banks had an exceptional 2023,...
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Sustainable Financing for The Entire Supply Chain
Innovative financing structures like sustainable working capital can have a domino effect throughout an entire corporate supply chain ecosystem, resulting in a virtuous circle of long- lasting benefits for all participants, says Jacques Levet, Head of Transaction Banking for EMEA at BNP Paribas.
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World’s Best Banks 2024—The Caribbean
Nearshoring, tourism boom and increased remittances add to 2023 growth. According to International Monetary Fund estimates, the region (excluding Guyana,...