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The Innovators 2026: Western Europe
Western Europe has moved from a phase of fintech disruption to one of institutional scale and regulatory governance.
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Winner Insights
BNY Bridges Ecosystems With Financial Innovations
Jay Hinton, global head of Product, Data & Analytics, BNY—a global winner in the Most Innovative Banks category—explains the role of BNY’s D&A platform in an evolving financial world.
Winner Insights
SAB’s Blueprint for Tokenized Islamic Finance
Saeed Assiri, chief innovation officer at Saudi Awwal Bank (SAB)—winner of Best Global Financial Innovation for Tokenized Islamic Repo—discusses the bank’s approach to blockchain usage and overcoming the issue of ecosystem coordination.
Sponsored Content
Bank Mandiri: Building the Digital Backbone of Indonesia’s Economy
How Kopra by Mandiri is redefining wholesale banking, open finance, and AI-driven innovation. Budi Prasetyo, Senior Vice President of Digital Wholesale Banking, explains how Mandiri is leading the country’s next chapter in financial digitalization.
Winner Insights
Hawkish Capital CEO: How Tokenization, Sustainability Offer New Synergies
Edoardo Francesco Sabatino, CEO and founder of Hawkish Capital—a global winner in the Most Innovative Financial Technology Companies category—on using tokenization to expand the investor base for green assets.
Banking
Credit Squeeze Comes for Main Street as Bankruptcies Surge
Rising bankruptcies reflect a credit squeeze driven by cautious banks, higher rates, and deteriorating borrower cash flows nationwide right now.
News
Wall Street Jobs Data Tell Diverging Stories in May
The latest U.S. job numbers for Wall Street don’t line up. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Hormuz Bottleneck: Gulf Energy Has a ‘Plan B’
The Strait of Hormuz was once treated as an unavoidable pathway of global energy flows. Now, Gulf producers are in desperate need of a workaround.
Sponsored Content
Intellect drives transformation certainty and business impact for global banks
Global Finance speaks with Rajesh Saxena, CEO, and Akash Gupta, Global Delivery Head of Intellect Consumer Banking — a cloud-native multi-product company headquartered in India. The company provides comprehensive banking solutions worldwide.
Executive Interviews
Siemens’ Heiko Nix Details the Corporate Treasury Tech Upgrade
Heiko Nix, Global Head of Cash Management and Payments at Siemens, discusses the shift to programmable, 24/7 payment systems, bets on tokenized money for corporate use, and explains how a lack of standardization turned a six-month API integration project into a three-year challenge.
Features
An Insurance War Without Borders
The maps have been redrawn. Not just on the ground in the Middle East, but inside the policy documents that...
News
Visa, Mastercard Restart Business in Syria
Visa's and Mastercard's latest move signals early steps toward rebuilding a digital payments system amid major structural hurdles.
News
Dangote’s IPO Tests African Capital Markets
Dangote Refinery’s initial public offering is shaping up to be one of the most historic capital markets events for the...
Sponsored Content
How European Corporates Are Redefining Capital Market Strategy
After an extended period of caution, Europe’s largest corporates are no longer sitting on the sidelines – they are actively reshaping the capital markets landscape.
News
Mega-Cap IPOs Make Major Waves for Index Investors
When mega-cap companies go public, index providers and investors will see it as dropping battleships into the old fishing pond....