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The Innovators 2025: Western Europe

Regional Winners Most Innovative Bank in Western Europe | SOCIETE GENERALE Societe Generale’s Global Transaction and Payment Services division has...

Features

Reimagining AI’s Role In Finance

From compliance to stablecoins to microbusinesses, fintech labs germinate next-gen uses for AI.

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Best Financial Innovation Labs 2025

Financial Services Company Labs (Working With External Startups and Scaleups) Many FIs host labs nurturing outside startups. These labs operate...

Expanding in Africa: How Egypt’s CIB is Pursuing Cross-Border Growth

Looking beyond its home market in Egypt, Commercial International Bank’s (CIB’s) Islam Zekry, Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Board Member, reveals the bank’s vision to be a key financial partner for African economic expansion. To do this, it is leveraging Kenya as a strategic hub, while prioritising high-growth sectors and supporting SMEs, corporates and Egyptian exporters.

Executive Interviews

McKinsey’s Koller: Valuation Isn’t Broken—Expectations Are

Global Finance: To what extent does geography play a role in affecting a company’s valuation? Koller: It applies to most...

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Manish Kohli: Innovating Payments At HSBC

Manish Kohli, head of Global Payments Solutions at HSBC, discusses the bank’s digital-payments strategy and how it is innovating in transaction banking. HSBC was named one of Global Finance’s Most Innovative Banks.

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Absa Group: Digitally Enabled

Michelle Knowles is managing executive for Trade and Working Capital (Pan Africa) at regional winner Absa Group. She discusses how innovation and technology is changing finance in Africa.

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Galaxy Digital: Tokenization Approaches The Mainstream

Thomas Cowan, VP of tokenization at regional winner Galaxy Digital, explains why the digital asset company tokenized a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin.

Tech can help Asset Managers Manage the Generational Wealth Transfer

Global Finance spoke with Rafael Ernesto Barrientos Interiano, Director of Technology and Digital Transformation at Banco Cuscatlan, about innovations in...

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Banco Cuscatlan Driving Innovations In Latin America

Global Finance spoke with Rafael Ernesto Barrientos Interiano, Director of Technology and Digital Transformation at Banco Cuscatlan, about innovations in banking in Latin America and how Banco Cuscatlan uses technology to create a better customer experience.

Editor's Letter

Innovation In An Age of Uncertainty

Uncertainty continues to cloud the global economic horizon, with tariffs remaining a dominant con- cern in both political and financial...

Technology

Paul Brody, EY: How Blockchain Is Transforming Global Commerce

Paul Brody is global blockchain leader at professional services firm EY and co-author of a 2023 book, Ethereum for Business: A Plain-English Guide to the Use Cases that Generate Returns from Asset Management to Payments to Supply Chains. He speaks with Global Finance about blockchain technology’s impact on everything from routine payments to cross-border remittances to the future of banking and the CFO and treasurer roles.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Romania: New President Promises Moderate Course

A collective sigh of relief rippled through EU capitals on May 18 when former Bucharest Mayor Nicuşor Dan secured an unexpectedly strong mandate in round two of Romania’s presidential elections, besting far-right opponent George Simion with 53.6% of the vote against 46.4%.

How do banks navigate the trinity of costs, compliance, and innovation?

Hong Kong's Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA) instructed the city’s fund managers last month to prepare for possible fallout...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Hong Kong: Pension Authority Warns Of US Debt Selloff

Hong Kong's Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA) instructed the city’s fund managers last month to prepare for possible fallout from Moody’s recent reduction of its US Treasury debt rating from Aaa to Aa1.