Gilly Wright

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Sibos participants cited regulatory obstacles, skills gaps, outdated ways of working, legacy technologies and core systems, difficulties extracting and analyzing customer data as hurdles to the bold plans for digital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

As pandemic response continues to reshape human behaviors and attitudes, banks are strengthening in-house innovation teams and tapping broader networks to stimulate fresh ideation in financial services.

Elon Musk’s plans to make Twitter an open forum for speech may be a double-edged sword. 

CaixaBank CEO Gonzalo Gortázar explains how innovation is helping banks plan for future financial needs.

Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS Bank, reveals how investing in staff and growth-stage technology companies will help meet Asia’s future financial needs.

Banco Popular Dominicano CEO Christopher Paniagua advocates innovation to develop an “orange economy.”

Newly minted CEO Taro Shimada—formerly Toshiba's chief digital officer—will try to revive the company's fortunes.

European nations opt for nuclear, oil, and gas to reduce their dependence on Russian energy which helps finance their war effort in Ukraine.

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.

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.

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.

The move follows similar stock market listings of Geely-owned foreign marques, including Volvo Cars, which floated in Stockholm last year.

Western companies and Russian oligarchs look to divest themselves of assets albeit for very different reasons.

The sale of UK-based microchip designer Arm to Nvidia was scrapped due to significant regulatory hurdles.

The companies’ fortunes have been intertwined since the 1930s.