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Winner Insights

Loic Leonard, ION: Advanced Analytics And AI Tackle Treasury Challenges

ION is this year’s winner of the Best White Label System Provider – Non-Bank. Loic Leonard, head of product (Wallstreet Suite) at ION, discusses the technological foundations of a modern treasury.

Transaction Banking

Standard Bank: Reimagining Transaction Banking in Africa

Crosby Mkhwanazi, Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Bank’s Corporate and Investment Banking division, talks to Global Finance's Founder and Editorial Director, Joseph Giarraputo, about the capabilities, innovations and solutions that can empower clients with fast and agile payment solutions that also offer improved reliability and security.

Technology

AI Transforms The Finance Function

AI tools are driving efficiency and strategic gains—and fundamentally reshaping finance professionals’ roles.

Top Priorities for 2020: Time to Future Proof Treasury

Companies worldwide face an environment of change. Global supply chains are being reconfigured in response to a surge in protectionism and trade interventions.

Executive Interviews

Christopher Hodge, Natixis: Inside The Economic Crosswinds

Christopher Hodge, chief US economist at investment bank Natixis, shares his thoughts regarding the forces shaping the US economy. With a career spanning the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the US Department of the Treasury, and hedge funds, he offers a rare public and private perspective on today’s policy-driven landscape, the growing risk of an economic slowdown, and how recent policy decisions may be making it worse.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Seven & i Acquisition Falls Through

The proposed $47 billion acquisition of Japan’s Seven & i Holdings by Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT) would have been the largest foreign takeover in Japanese history.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Japan: Prime Minister’s Waning Power Jolts Stability

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s grip on power weakened further after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and coalition partner Komeito lost their majority in Japan’s upper house elections on July 20.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Giovanni Ferrero Scoops Up WK Kellogg

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and Giovanni Ferrero knows it.

High Employee Engagement and Shareholding Rate — What Is E.SUN’s Secret?

E.SUN FHC is unique in the banking industry. With no affiliation with family nor government agency, E.SUN is a banker’s bank - a bank that is owned by employees, and managed for customers. All employees can sing the corporate anthem by heart, and almost every employee owns shares of the company. These practices might seem unconventional, but they represent the spirits of a sustainable succession system that makes E.SUN built to last.

Transaction Banking

News & Features Archive

Loic Leonard, ION: Advanced Analytics And AI Tackle Treasury Challenges

Standard Bank: Reimagining Transaction Banking in Africa

AI Transforms The Finance Function

Top Priorities for 2020: Time to Future Proof Treasury

Christopher Hodge, Natixis: Inside The Economic Crosswinds

Seven & i Acquisition Falls Through

Japan: Prime Minister’s Waning Power Jolts Stability

Giovanni Ferrero Scoops Up WK Kellogg

High Employee Engagement and Shareholding Rate — What Is E.SUN’s Secret?

Will Reshoring Survive Trump’s Shifting Tariff Policy?

From Automation To Augmentation – AI In Finance Awards 2025

AI In Finance Awards 2025 | Corporate And Investment Banking

AI In Finance Awards 2025 | Consumer Banking

Risk Measurement and Mitigation: Need for a New Beginning

GCC Digital Upheaval – Fintechs vs. Banks