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Banking On Technology To Serve Customers
By aping technology firms, banks that simplify solutions and focus upon the customer experience will be the ones that survive.
Author: Gilly Wright
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Award Winners
Best Digital Banks 2016
The first-round winners of the 17th Global Finance Best Digital Bank Awards reveal the strategic importance that both corporate/institutional and consumer banks place on digital banking.
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Can Jet CEO Make Walmart.com Fly?
<strong>US</strong> | Wal-Mart’s decision to buy Jet.com, a fast-growing e-commerce company, for $3.3 billion is being viewed as a shrewd move for both companies—one that strengthens their ability to compete with Amazon.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Blockchain To Ease Compliance Burdens
Fintech collaborations may be on the verge of yielding concrete solutions for monitoring and compliance.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Swiss Success Highlights Infrastructure Neglect
After 17 years of construction, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, connecting Northern and Southern Europe through the Alps, opened to great fanfare on June 1, and shone a light on years of lax investment in infrastructure by European nations generally.
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LinkedIn Hopes For Soft Link With Microsoft
<strong>US</strong> | When Microsoft boughtLinkedIn, the deal was structured to leavethe networking site to grow and develop somewhat independently. The question is, how independently?
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Building Toward A Breakthrough
Finance sector innovations have cut costs and improved convenience but have not been transformative. Will bankers and treasurers—traditionally risk-averse players—ever brainstorm a revolutionary breakthrough?
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Can Khan Deliver On Affordable Housing Pledge?
<strong>UK</strong><br />
The promise of London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, to build 50,000 homes (half of them affordable) with a reasonable commute is being heralded but also questioned.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Innovators Q+A | Coke’s New Tech Formula
Coca-Cola’s director of international treasury services, Jim Aschmeyer, explains how a strong relationship with Citi aids innovation and cash management.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Innovators Q+A | Treasury Transformation At Etihad Airways
Adam Boukadida, deputy treasurer for Etihad Airways, talks treasury transformation vision, goals and strategy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Innovators Q+A | Volvo’s Treasury Upgrade
Elisabeth Mosseen, group treasurer, and Eva Christianson, head of risk analysis and control at group treasury, both at Volvo Car Group, chart their treasury’s transformation from a division of Ford to a stand-alone outfit.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Serial Inverters Curtailed As Global Reforms Move Forward
<strong>Trends | Inversions</strong><br />
The US Treasury Department’s recent rules against corporate inversions are intended to stop “serial inverters.”