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Best Corporate/Institutional Digital Banks in Middle East and Africa 2025

FAB, QIB, and SNB lead Middle Eastern digital banking with AI, APIs, check digitization, and streamlined onboarding, delivering faster, transparent, and customer-focused financial services.

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Best Corporate/Institutional Digital Banks in North America 2025

Citi and Inter are setting new digital banking standards in North America with secure platforms, self-service tools, and super-app ecosystems that empower clients through seamless, customer-centric innovation.

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Best Corporate/Institutional Digital Banks in Western Europe 2025

Banks across Western Europe are reimagining financial services by blending traditional strengths with fintech-inspired innovations, creating more integrated, digital-first, and customer-centric experiences.

CIB Egypt: Calm at the Center of the Storm

As the COVID-19 crisis emerged, CIB Egypt was ready with a comprehensive pandemic strategy to ensure business sustainability and protect the health and safety of its staff, customers, & community.Mr.Hussein Abaza, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member ofCIB Egypt, explains how vision, resilience & innovation made it a model for how to live and work safely in the pandemic.

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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.

Banking

Argentina: Revolut Acquires Cetelem

UK fintech Revolut will enter the Argentine market after agreeing to purchase Cetelem Argentina from BNP Paribas Personal Finance.

Delivering Banking Amid New Realities

Mohamed Aly, the CEO of ADIB-Egypt, explains how the bank has worked to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on its operations.

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.

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.

Reinventing the Future of Chinas Retail Banking

Ping An Bank’s ambitious and innovative strategy to transform its retail business made the bank a digital banking leader in only four years and created a “finance+” ecosystem that redefined retail banking.

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.