Best Banks & Financial Rankings

The world’s biggest investment banks reinforced their dominance in a year that broke all sorts of records.

Pandemics, politics, price spikes and more—through it all, investment bankers kept up the deal-making.

Laurent Descout, founder and CEO at Neo, talks about businesses’ need for a truly global account, with both automation and financing embedded.

Bots give straight-through processing a leg up.

Fragmented payment systems and a lack of standardization have hindered the cash management efforts of companies in the Middle East, but this looks set to change.

Viola Hechl-Schmied, product owner for machine learning at ION Treasury, lifts the lid on the AI-based tools the company integrated into its platform to help treasurers make quicker and more accurate cash forecasts.

The economic uncertainties of the past few years have made cash forecasting far from an exact science—but it’s more important than ever. 

Digitalization and automation blaze a path to post-pandemic profitability.

Global Finance names the year’s best treasury and cash management providers in systems and services.  

Integrated offerings morph from luxuries to staples.

Eva Bueno, global head, cash management for Global Transaction Banking at Santander, explains how payments innovations help local businesses cope with Covid-19’s impact while providing flexible operations.

AI, big data and cloud computing sharpen forecasting accuracy.

New offerings make corporate treasuries far nimbler.

Digitalization furthers financial optimization and brings inclusion to the continent.

SCF is no longer a luxury that only the largest suppliers can afford.

Stimulus packages and high equity drove the winners’ success this year.

Global Finance presents its inaugural annual listing of the best global, regional and national banks that serve SMEs, for more than 60 countries and regions.

The pandemic caused bank clients worldwide to shift to online usage—a boon to banks that were prepared.

An economic rebound fills the coffers of Europe’s winners.

Global Finance names this year’s best private banks serving clients in the Caribbean.