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The rosier outlook gives central banks a chance to return to more traditional policies after endless cycles of easing. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) is likely to stick to its plan of slowly increasing interest rates, and the European Central Bank (ECB) could follow suit.
Snap elections pit Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) against insurgent Party of Hope on October 22.
Africa is emerging from last year’s slump, but slow growth of its largest economies is impeding recovery for many of its corporates.
The utopian vision of open banking dreamed up by the European Commission when it drafted the PSD II regulation is unlikely to emerge from day one of implementation.
ING CEO Ralph Hamers talks about what it has taken for the bank to turn around after the financial crisis, its digital strategy and changes expected to disrupt the banking system.
With the state-owned National Bank for Economic and Social Development ending its subsidized credit lending practice in Brazil, state and private retail banks will have to step in to support the long-term credit market unlike at present.
Ignazio Visco, governor of the Bank of Italy since 2011, spoke with Global Finance about global and domestic economic conditions.
India’s banking system, weighted toward state-backed entities, is opening up to private-sector banks to boost competition.
Marco Meyer, Managing Director at SymQ (member of the Hanse Orga Group), and Bart Parren, Managing Director at Hanse Orga International, discuss the advantages of seamless integration between treasury and ERP systems.
Nearly 1400 global companies factored in an internal price for carbon in 2017 compared to just 150 in 2014.
SPACs , created in the US in the 1990s to help financial sponsors raise funds more quickly in capital markets, had suffered, until recently, from a weak IPO market and several failed acquisitions.
The widely discussed technology, some say, will emerge from labs and being in the 'proof of concept' stage to to the real world, or what some refer to as “minimum viable products.
With a growing budget deficit, Brazil is struggling to climb out of recession and become globally competitive.
By recognizing entrepreneurial talent and encouraging employees to step forward with ideas, banks get a chance to boost innovation from within
Companies keep increasing their stashes of cash. A rise in the cost of new debt and tax reform in the US might finally turn that trend around in 2017—or not.
An interview with Farid Huseynov, First Deputy CEO of Kapital Bank.
The bank's CEO Jose Marcos Ramirez Miguel sees less risk now from revising the regional trade deal, even a "very positive impact" on Mexico's economy.
Infrastructure and economic development needs are challenging countries to provide jobs, as urban growth is poised to surge over the next decade.
Turkey has become the world’s most generous nation, going from development assistance recipient to top donor in just over a decade.
Why is going paperless such a tough nut to crack? Trade Finance is undergoing a massive transformation as global banks and their clients push toward digitization of trade documentation. While the space seems to be taking baby steps toward a ...
Andrea Fiano, Editor of Global Finance interviews the winners of the Best Private Banks Award 2017.
Anaplan's Founder and CTO talks with Global Finance’s Managing Editor Edith Updike.
Study of wealthy Millennials finds more interest in private equity than robo-advisory, and a desire to “do good” as well as get good returns.
Ultra-high net worth individuals of a new generation are changing the face of wealth in the world
Private bankers need new strategies to make themselves relevant to Asia’s wealth creators.
Naveed Sultan, global head of Treasury and Trade Solutions says that the bank's focus on upgrading its banking platforms, customer connectivity and investments in fintech companies ensures that it stays on the top.
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