The Covid-19 pandemic created some waves in the foreign exchange markets over the last couple of years, but the re-emergence of global inflation and inflation-fighting central banks has truly rocked the currency world this year.
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Global Finance editor Andrea Fiano interviews Ásgeir Jónsson, Central Bank Governor of Iceland during Global Finance's World's Best Bank Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on October 15th.
It has been Global Finance’s practice to conduct a Best Bank award ceremony during the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings. As this year’s Meetings have gone virtual, so will Global Finance’s awards ceremony. Below are a selection of global winners accepting their awards. Click here to see winners from other regions accept their awards.
Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS Bank, accepts the award for Best Bank in The World.
Naveed Sultan, Global Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citi, accepts the award for World's Best Global Transaction Bank.
Nemeh Sabbagh, CEO of Arab Bank, accepts the award for World's Best Frontier Markets Bank, Best Bank in the Middle East, and Best Bank in Jordan.
Olivier Khayat, Co-CEO Commercial Banking Western Europe and Gianfranco Bisagni, Co-CEO Commercial Banking, Central Eastern Europe accept the award for Best SME Bank in the world.
Hussein Abaza, CEO and Board Member of Commercial International Bank, accepts the award for Best Emerging Markets Bank.