Banking
Powerhouse Banks Raise The Stakes In China
As foreign firms expand with majority stakes, formerly dominant Chinese domestic banks look for ways to maintain their edge.
Features
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
What Future For SMEs?
With lockdown easing in many places, small and midsize enterprises can get back to business; but they face huge hurdles.
Features
Necessity Gives Birth To Invention
How governments and banks huddled to keep liquidity and connectivity up as the pandemic hit the world economy.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Pandemic Strengthens African Bank Digitization
Within Sub-Saharan Africa, mobile money providers have waived or reduced transaction fees while governments are encouraging digital payments as a strategy to wean off person-to-person contact.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Appetite Flows Back To Emerging Markets As Restrictions Ease
Demand for high yielding currencies broadly increased in May, led by the South African rand, the Russian ruble and top performer Mexican peso.
Features
Central Banks Tackle COVID-19 Fallout
Viral V. Acharya, C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, speaks with Global Finance about the fallout of the coronavirus epidemic.
Features
Deep Roots: Arab Bank CEO Nemeh Sabbagh Q&A
Regional powerhouse Arab Bank reaches its 90-year milestone this year. Nemeh Sabbagh, CEO, talks to Global Finance about current challenges and opportunities.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Hot Spots 2020
Our map reveals at a glance the hottest emerging markets of the past year, as determined by an algorithm incorporating economic growth, investment inflows andcompetitiveness. With data tables and Top 10 rankings across multiple vectors.
Features
Mutual Benefit: Raiffeisen Bank International CEO Johann Strobl Q&A
The best banks in the continent’s developing markets reported higher growth and stronger fundamentals in 2019.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Federal Reserve To Buy Bonds Of Fallen Angels
Will other central banks follow the Fed and buy riskier assets as they expand their balance sheets?
Features
France’s Central Bank Heeds Call For Currency Innovation
Based on a desire to avoid fragmentation in settlement procedures, the central bank will review and adjust the conditions under which it provides financial intermediaries with central bank money.