Transaction Banking
SWIFT To Launch AI-Backed Fraud-Detection Service
Global banking cooperative SWIFT plans to ring in 2025 by launching AI-enhanced fraud detection capabilities. The new function will give...
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Banking
ADQ To Purchase Odeabank
Abu Dhabi Development Holding Company (ADQ) has agreed to acquire a 96% stake in Bank Audi’s loss-making Turkish subsidiary, Odeabank,...
Banking
BBVA Pursues Banco Sabadell Takeover Despite Opposition
Spanish bank BBVA recently saw one of its biggest backers, GQG Partners, call it quits and sell its stake due...
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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.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Asia’s Race For Talent
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are intensifying efforts to attract foreign workers amid labor shortages and aging populations. Each country...
Transaction Banking
Nigeria: Automation Will Add Forex Transparency
Nigeria’s central bank will automate foreign exchange (FX) trading starting in December, replacing the decade-old over-the-counter system to enhance transparency...
Sustainable Finance
COP29: Climate Finance Takes Center Stage
Recent climate catastrophes have raised the bar for securing funding to address global warming. At COP29, climate finance will be...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Putting Global Risk In Perspective: Q&A With BNP Paribas’ Meghan Robson
Meghan Robson, head of US Credit Strategy for BNP Paribas, speaks to Global Finance about directional forecasts and what to...
Banking
Banks Weather Rising Interest Rates And Recession Fears
An improving economic environment and subdued inflation allow banks to search for new growth avenues. The post-pandemic inflation that...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Togo: Open For Business
Despite security threats and political unrest, tiny Togo is attracting outsize interest from foreign investors. A small West African country...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Shortage Of CPAs Fuels Push To Ease Licensing
To tackle the shortage of accountants, KPMG, Deloitte and their colleagues at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and EY have embraced the development...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Moldova: Direction In Doubt
These are nervous and uncertain times in Moldova and Georgia. In a referendum on October 20, Moldovans formally enshrined the...
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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.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
UAE Goes Shopping For Chemicals
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has reached an agreement to buy German chemicals maker Covestro in what is...