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Award Winners

J.P. Morgan – World’s Best Emerging Market Bank For 2025

Global Finance announces its selections for the World’s Best Banks 2025, including its honoree for the World’s Best Emerging Market Bank, which is being revealed here for the first time. The 2025 World’s Best Emerging Market Bank is J.P. Morgan.

Banking

Big Banks Mull Joint Stablecoin

As legislation to create a regulatory framework for stablecoins progresses in the US Congress, major banks are reportedly discussing issuing a joint stablecoin that could potentially provide commercial clients with various benefits.

Transaction Banking

Pix Becomes Brazil’s Top Transaction Method

The massive growth in digital payments in Brazil has reached yet another milestone.

CIB Egypt Sees Growth In Africa’s Emerging Banking Opportunities

Africa’s fast-growing economies, FinTech innovation, and stable trade agreements offer abundant opportunities for CIB Egypt. Hisham Ezz Al-Arab, CIB Egypt’s Chairman & Managing Director, discusses the bank’s strategic expansion into Eastern Africa and strong position as financial partner to customers across the continent.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Fake Goods Trade Reaches $467 Billion

Counterfeit goods accounted for an estimated $467 billion in global trade in 2021, the latest year with available comprehensive data, says a joint study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), an EU agency based in Alicante, Spain.

News

Circle IPO Underscores Investor Appetite For Crypto

Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group raised nearly $1.1 billion in its IPO, above its expected range, as investors grow increasingly attracted to cryptocurrencies.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate HQs Downsize And Decentralize

The traditional corporate headquarters—a single, centralized office—has long symbolized business power.

Banking

Italy Is Awash With M&As

With M&A ramping up in Europe, Italy is leading the way with a dynamic financial sector, boasting seven active deals.

Harnessing Technology to Control Latin American FX Risk

From devaluation to revenue recognition, FX volatility creates significant challenges for companies operating in Latin America. With the right technology, companies can mitigate these risks and achieve greater control over their pricing strategies, says Rafael Bufacchi, Director of Finance at PrimeiroPay.

Banking

Japan’s SMBC Buying Stake In Yes Bank

India’s Yes Bank expects to sell a 20% stake to Japan’s second-largest bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, for $1.58 billion, pending regulatory approvals from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Competition Commission of India.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Nippon Steel, U.S. Steel Tie-Up Could Be A ‘Game Changer’

The deal by Japan’s top steelmaker creates a formidable global competitor and helps revive U.S. Steel’s competitiveness.

Banking

Spain: Post-Pandemic Champion

Spain’s economy keeps outpacing Europe, thanks to tourism, immigration, and a budding pharma sector. But tariff threats and structural challenges loom.

News

Private Credit Survey

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.

Insurance

Global Insurance: New Capital Frontiers

Insurers are reassessing traditional approaches to risk transfer—and the markets are responding.