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Q&A With Bank of Ireland: Digital For Long-term Gains

Garvan Callan, Director, strategy, digital and innovation at Bank of Irelandtalks toGlobal Financeabout the bank's exponentially growing digital footprint, products that are doing well and the technologies the bank is focusing on to drive its digital customer growth and experience.

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Q&A With Scotiabank: Building Digital Factories

Shawn Rose, executive vice president, digital banking, Scotiabank talks To Global Finance about its digitalefforts in Pacific Alliance countries and its startegy of forming 'Digital Factories'.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

New Roles, New Metrics For CFOs

With the duties of chief financial officers growing in scope and complexity, evaluation and pay packages are changing too.

Closing Ethiopia’s Financing Gaps Creates New Banking Markets

Digital banking and customisation is rapidly expanding Awash Bank’s markets for banking services among Ethiopia’s SMEs and underbanked retail customers. Henock Tessema, Chief, Retail & SME Banking Officer, Awash Bank, Ethiopia, discusses how the bank’s strategy to foster entrepreneurship, close the SME financing gap, and bank the unbanked is supporting Ethiopia’s economic growth.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury & Cash Management Supplement 2017

A tsunami of technological progress is forcing risk-averse corporate finance executives to confront changes in the environment.

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US Economy Grows At 3% For First Time In 2 Years

US based CFOs have cause to cheer with the US economy growing at a faster clip than expected. The Bureau of Economic Analysis on Wednesdayrevised the US real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate forthe second quarter of 2017to 3%from ...

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Global Finances Central Banker Report Cards 2017

The Central Banker Report Cards, published annually by Global Finance since 1994, grade the central bank governors of 83 key countries and the European Union. The heads of the Central Banks of Australia, Honduras, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Paraguay, Russia, Taiwan and the United States received a prestigious “A” grade this year. In addition, the Central Bankers of Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Jordan earned “A-” grades.

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Latin America: The Role of Development Banks

Development banks vie with their commercial counterparts to support the growth of regional economies.

COP 27: Time to Accelerate Global Climate Action

COP 27 comes at a critical time. The world is facing immediate and significant challenges. Not only has the last seven years been the warmest on record, but the Russian-Ukraine War has created serious cereal and foodstuff shortages for numerous countries, including many in Africa, and the sharp rise in energy prices have impacted costs, people’s incomes, and growth. Geopolitical risk has focused more attention on climate change.

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Q&A w/ BTG Pactual: Making A Difference In LatAm

Allan Hadid, chief operating officer of BTG Pactual Asset Management, speaks with Global Finance about investment strategies, local presence and hisfirm’s unusual approach.

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Q&A w/ Mercer: Governance And Diversification

Mercer Global Investments'Michael Dempseyspeaks withGlobal Financeabout the growth of multimanager asset management.

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Serbia: Austerity Rules

Serbia findssuccessyet faceschallengesas it works to take its place on the world economic stage.

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Strategy Surpassing Returns

In a Q&A, NISA’sDavid Eichhorn explains how the rising importance ofrisk management is changing the pension business.

Sustainable Banking for Palestines Real Economy

Palestine’s sustainable banking leader for 62 years, Bank of Palestine (BoP) represents the future of banking with high-impact sustainable finance initiatives, gender & financial inclusion, and digital innovation. Mahmoud Shawa, BoP’s CEO, discusses the bank’s strategic commitment to sustainability and its role supporting Palestine’s economic growth and climate change goals.

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Gulf Cooperation Council Report 2017 | Table Of Contents

An overview with links all the stories in our regional report on the GCC.