Gilly Wright

Our annual picks for the best of the best worldwide in key corporate and consumer segments.

First launched in 2021, Bridge was developed to help small businesses connect online with regional, local and community banks for loans up to $10 million.

While the winner of Taiwan's presidential contest is uncertain, whoever wins will have to manage the island's increasingly difficult relationship with mainland China.

Martin Kubík, CIO and director of Tatra banka, discusses how open banking and AI will help attract the next generation of clients.

Han Kwee Juan, group executive and country head of DBS Singapore, explains how technology helps to create personalized experiences, added value and greater sustainability.

Naveed Anwar, global head of Digital and Data for Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, shares how the bank enables growth in a real-time world.

Better UX and efficiency fuel digital banking growth.

Poring over spreadsheets won’t solve all cash flow challenges. 

Real-time payments and technologies provide a two-edged sword for corporate treasurers. 

With a registered customer base of more than 450 million users, WalMart-owned Flipkart has entered the loan business.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads in a bid to exploit user dissatisfaction with Elon Musk's Twitter and quickly signed up 100 million users in its first week.

For banks to compete and flourish, Gareth Richardson, chief operating officer of Thought Machine, explains why cloud-native technology is key.

By providing a secure platform for tokenizing traditional financing documents into “on-chain” tradable nonfungible tokens, Visa’s solution will enable farmers to receive loans with customized terms.

Qantas’ new CEO Vanessa Hudson has spanned roles both onshore and offshore across the commercial, customer and finance segments of the company.

Global Finance magazine names the world's most innovative banks and fintechs, and the best financial innovations of the past year. 

To help beef up Arm’s potential earnings ahead of an IPO, Softbank appears to be tinkering with Arm’s unique selling point.

A slow process of switching from physical to digital trade documentation appears to be speeding up.

The 2023 Social Security Financing Adjustment Law raises the retirement age from 62 to 64, with a requirement that the retiree has worked at least 43 years; otherwise, workers must wait until they turn 67.

The diversification of the world’s supply chains is leading to a new look compared to the past.

PhonePe is fast becoming a distribution engine, leveraging the large base of 450 million registered users to cross-sell products such as insurance, lending and other services.

Leading banks leverage their global backbones to better serve the region.

A treasurer’s role must change with the times.

With a possible slowdown looming and the promises of data insight, treasurers are keeping an especially close eye on their cash.

Banks continue to design better products despite the regional conflict.

The agreement is a notable competitive win for Oracle over AWS, which might have been chosen for the lower cost and higher performance of its cloud infrastructure.

Joon Kim, BNY Mellon’s global head of Trade Finance Product & Portfolio Group Treasury Services, explains how digitalization helps companies cope with business disruptions.

Marie-Laure Gastellu, head of Trade Services at Societe Generale, shares her thoughts on the role of data, ESG and ISO 20022 in trade finance.

Supply chain finance is keeping goods and materials moving along despite obstacles and setbacks.

The surge of early 2022 is gone, but there are still signs of hope for new trade growth.

Arnaud Lhoste, global head of corporate sales at Societe Generale, explains how to meet the different FX needs and risk appetites of large and small corporates.

Once seen as a plague on emerging markets, FX volatility hit major global currencies in a big way in 2022, due to rising interest rates, inflation and economic contraction.

Bank of Georgia CEO Archil Gachechiladze explains how creating a digital-first experience that puts customers at the heart of its innovation initiatives is strengthening BOG.

Global Finance announces the second-round of winners of our World’s Best Digital Banks Awards.

Naveed Anwar, Citi’s global head of Digital, Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS), explains how data is helping the bank enhance the treasury tool bag.

Dynamism in the payments arena is driving change at banks and drawing new players into the field, expanding innovation and opportunity.

North American multinationals lost $34.25 billion in the third quarter due to currency volatility while their European counterparts reported $3.02 billion in FX-related losses.

Asset tokenization has real potential to transform issuance settlement.

Sibos participants cited regulatory obstacles, skills gaps, outdated ways of working, legacy technologies and core systems, difficulties extracting and analyzing customer data as hurdles to the bold plans for digital transformation.

The hiring will also include software developers and data specialists who will work with BBVA’s Client Solutions, Architecture and Data teams on the design, development and deployment of global and reusable components that support the creation of functionalities for retail and corporate clients.

 The company and other giant petroleum refiners face an uphill battle after a US Congressional committee released documents revealing that their executives and staffers contradicted their public statements regarding their sustainability goals.

According to the bank’s internal projections, Marcus will lose more than $1.2 billion in 2022.

Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking’s global head of product and sales, Eduardo Vergara, shares his thoughts on why engineering talent and client feedback are vital to cloud-based corporate banking success.

Technology standards pay off big.

Soon Chong Lim, group head of Global Transaction Services at DBS, discusses how banks help treasuries make the most of new technologies.

Liz Truss is promising tax cuts during an inflationary crisis.

Companies are introducing circularity to their supply chains to mitigate human impact on the global climate.

Foreign banks are pulling back from the Irish market amid regulatory tightening.

The Cloud has become a must for traditional financial institutions, who are increasingly viewing it a key tool for innovating and achieving business goals.

New capabilities are bringing speed to banking while simultaneously expanding access. Global Finance recognizes outstanding innovations in local and regional markets around the world.

Company investigations are underway of CFO Jorge Gomez by both of his former employers, Moderna and Dentsply Sirona.