Best Banks & Financial Rankings

North American treasurers are adapting to the rapid pace of technological change, as new real-time payment systems and greater digitization and centralization of treasury operations take hold.

The treasury function in Asia-Pacific is being transformed.

Mobile banking and card payments are replacing cash.

European treasurers must decide what they want their future treasury operations to look like.

Real-time means better predictability for treasurers.

New technologies can help treasurers solve challenges they face in accurately forecasting their future cash and liquidity needs.

Banks and fintechs want to make treasurers’ lives a lot simper.

The regulatory and technological stars have aligned for the benefit of all as the move to real-time treasury operations promises to deliver unparalleled efficiencies and insights that banks and treasurers once only dreamt of.       

Banks in the Nordics have a bold vision to establish an integrated regional payments network, and to open up access to information so companies can better manage their cash and liquidity.

From new technologies come practical financial applications, which are transforming supply chains—and putting pressure on banks.

Digitization is revolutionizing age-old processes at trade finance banks.

Global Finance honors the companies that set the standard for FX hedging across regions and industries.

Global Finance selects the best foreign exchange banks in 113 countries.

With direct investment retreating from the US and the UK, a crop of smaller countries, topped by Singapore, were the biggest winners in the FDI horse race. Global Finance offers a new analysis and ranking.

Paloma Piqueras leads Global Wealth and Asset Management at BBVA, Global Finance’s pick this year as the World’s Best Private Bank for Clients with Net Worth Under $1 Million. She speaks about technology, how BBVA structures wealth management and the value of the nonfinancial components of its client service.

With the world as their oyster but more competition from other oyster hunters, private banks are focusing products and services in an effort to grow without sacrificing profits.

Islamic finance is expanding, though its strength is built in the Gulf.

The key factor shaking up the rankings this year is the tightening of regulatory oversight worldwide.

The world’s biggest banks are even bigger than last year. China has the biggest; Europe has the most.

For China’s banks, growth is easier than reducing debt and bad loans.