Banking
World’s Best Digital Banks 2026 Round 1: The Next Generation of Digital Banking Arrives
Digital portals give way to autonomous financial ecosystems.
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Award Winners
Best Consumer Digital Banks 2026
Digital retail banking success used to be measured by features such as mobile check deposits and remote account opening. That baseline is now obsolete.
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Best Corporate/Institutional Digital Banks 2026
Corporate digital banking has long been the laggard, stagnating in the shadow of retail innovation, with treasurers trapped in legacy batch-processing and manual workflows. Over the past year, however, that gap has evaporated.
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Vietnam’s New Wealth: How Techcombank is Shaping Private Banking
Islamic finance is moving beyond basic digitalization toward advanced operational transformation, driven by agentic AI and open-finance architectures.
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Best Islamic Digital Banks 2026
Islamic finance is moving beyond basic digitalization toward advanced operational transformation, driven by agentic AI and open-finance architectures.
Winner Insights
Bank of America: Transitioning From Spreadsheets to Predictive Treasury
Mark Monaco, head of Global Payments Solutions at Bank of America, which won a Most Innovative Digital Bank award, explains how to build digital speed and resilience through integrated payment solutions and real-time insights.
Winner Insights
Bank of Georgia: AI-Native Infrastructure and the Future of Digital Banking
Giorgi Vakhtangishvili, chief digital officer at Bank of Georgia, shares his thoughts on super-apps, AI financial agents, and frictionless security.
Features
Africa Looks to Digital Bonds for Infrastructure
Gulf investment is rising, but Africa needs long-term solutions to close a huge infrastructure financing gap.
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How Europe’s Stablecoins Could Redefine Digital Money
Once viewed as peripheral to traditional banking, stablecoins are now entering the mainstream of European financial strategy, as regulation matures and institutions explore new ways to modernise payments without sacrificing trust or stability.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The Great African Treasury Shift
Currency reforms, liquidity pressures, and new payment rails are forcing African CFOs to rethink corporate strategy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Turning East Africa’s Growth Into Bankable Assets
Fast GDP gains are just the start as investors target deeper capital markets and regional value chains.
Executive Interviews
CFO Corner: Steffen Baetjer, Fielmann Group
Fielmann Group CFO Steffen Baetjer discusses global expansion, building scalable finance operations, margin management, and the business impact of AI.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Asia-Pacific Powers Global Trade Boom
China and South Korea are driving the surge, but regional growth is slowing.
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Transaction Banking in Transition: Societe Generale’s Blueprint For Integrated Global Solutions
As global trade undergoes one of its biggest transformations in decades, transaction banking has become a strategic priority rather than a back-office function.
Sustainable Finance
Sustainable Bond Demand Faces Regional Turbulence
Lately a hotspot for sustainable finance, MENA states could face lower demand in the wake of the Gulf conflict.