Best Banks & Financial Rankings

Asian banks power ahead: Clever strategies, niche appeal and foreign alliances raise the profits and prestige of financial institutions across the vast continent.

Johann Strobl, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), talks about the positive results from the bank’s digital and structural transformations.

Hoping for a boost from DC: New legislation could be a boon for regional banks that are already making headway via cost savings, niche markets and new capabilities.

Global Finance unveils its 25th annual list of the best banks globally, regionally and by country. The winners have provided the best service to clients.

Enrique Alvarez, head of Strategy at Santander, talks about the impact of digitization, mobile banking and other groundbreaking technologies being put to work in Latin America.

Global Finance sat down with the CEO of Produbanco to discuss the mounting challenges for Ecuadorian banking.

What countries do the best job attracting foreign direct investment and how do they do it? Global Finance investigates.

Winners in the inaugural Best Bank for New Financial Technology category have already reserved their spot at the forefront of financial innovation, leveraging blockchain, artificial intelligence, data analytics and the Cloud to change the face of investment banking.

Although 2016’s frothy market didn’t repeat, regional M&A advisors in the US aren’t complaining about 2017.

Energy was a major component of deals this year—both fossil fuels and renewables. Green energy also made a big splash, as did one of the largest foreign direct investments into India.

Rising economic tides are lifting equity capital markets and buoying our Best Equity Bank winners.

Economic and political factors could force companies to put acquisition plans on hold, making for an unpredictable 2018. But this year’s Best M&A Bank winners are still optimistic about future growth prospects.

Is low volatility gone, or will it continue in 2018? Winners in the Derivatives categories are hedging their bets on which way the volatility pendulum swings in order to stay ahead of the game.

Good fundamentals and political uncertainty present opportunities for savvy underwriters, despite rising interest rates.

In most sectors and regions, 2017 saw gains in investment banks’ bottom lines, a welcome return to form. However, new political paradigms and policies could challenge that growth trend in the months ahead.

While some advisory practices find success in geographic focus, others trot the globe to serve sector-specific clients.

Global Finance magazine has announced its eleventh annual awards for the World’s Best Islamic Financial Institutions. A full report on the selections will appear in Global Finance’s World’s Best Banks special issue in May, as well as online at GFMag.com. ...

More platforms and more interfaces yield more complexity for Scandanavian treasury officers.

Regulation and technology have transformed treasury since 2008. Our global winners have turned those changes to advantage.  

Innovation drives the category as bank/non-bank distinctions blur.