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Economics, Policy & Regulation

Peoples Bank Of China Tightens Cryptocurrency Regulations

Barring cryptocurrencies will prevent Chinese yuan from leaving China in the form of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, allowing the government to maintain control of its centralized fiscal and economic systems.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Citi Exits Asia Retail To Focus On Wealth Management

Citigroup will focus instead on wealth management and its higher margins.

News

Decarbonizing Crypto

The impact of cryptocurrencies on the environment is growing in tandem with its acceptance by mainstream financial institutions.

News

AI: The Unseen Assistant

Artificial intelligence is already doing a lot for us behind the scenes, and a surge of new and better applications is on the way.

Features

Making The Cloud Pay

The ability of cloud-based systems to deliver faster payments—and treasury insights—took on added importance during the pandemic.

Features

Reducing Hierarchy: Q&A With Generali Assicurazioni’s Paolo Rubano

Paolo Rubano, Finance Transformation director at Italian insurance giant Generali Assicurazioni after a decade at France’s Axa, discusses the need for major multinationals to be more agile, more digital and more customer-centric.

News

Combining Powers: Q&A With GSK Consumer Healthcare’s Bjarne Tellmann

Bjarne Tellmann is senior vice president and general counsel at GSK Consumer Healthcare, a joint venture that combines the consumer brands of GSK and Pfizer. He speaks to Global Finance about the intersectionality of his work.

Features

Piecing Together Progress

Banking as a service is burgeoning—and with it, considerable challenges and opportunities.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporates Embrace Bitcoin At Last

Corporate and investor sentiment toward Bitcoin was already on the upswing before Tesla’s purchase of the cryptocurrency.

News

Credit Card Companies Eye Native Crypto Support

Cryptocurrencies are becoming integrated into the world payments system.

News

Robots Preferred Over Humans When It Comes To Finances

Respondents to the survey believe that robots are necessary for activities such as approvals, budgets and forecasts, reporting, compliance and risk management.

Features

Digital Imperative: Q&A With IBM’s Likhit Wagle

Likhit Wagle, general manager of Global Banking & Financial Markets at IBM, speaks to Global Finance about the industry urgency to digitize and counter the threat from Big Tech.