Gilly Wright

Rapid adoption of bank APIs promises not just to make treasury more efficient, but to shift more customer account management to online and mobile environments.

Everyone wants a piece of the millennial market.

Blockchain technology is speeding up trade-finance transactions. But there’s more work needed to scale up and develop common standards.

An array of new and improved technologies promise to make moving and managing money much simpler for treasurers.

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.

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

Mobile banking and card payments are replacing cash.

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.

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

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.

Speculation about who US President Donald Trump will pick to head the World Bank.

Lithuania establishes a regulatory regime fit for fintechs.

Telecom Italia Group is struggling and badly divided.

The winners of Global Finance’s Best Digital Banks awards are leveraging APIs and building an ecosystem of partners to deliver ever-more-tailored services—anywhere, anytime.

Crypto comes to Swift's annual conference.

Lithuania's laser focus attracts new investment.

J.C. Penney struggles to avoid the fate of Sears and Toys "R" Us.

Report from Global Finance's Digital Bank and Innovators Conference.

The first round—country and subcategory winners—of Global Finance’s Best Digital Bank awards 2018 reveals that digital transformations are driving efforts by global, regional and national banks to build their corporate and consumer clientele—and cut costs while they’re at it.

Advanced technologies help banks be competitive and retain customers. Maxim Evdokimov, vice president of Russia’s Tinkoff Bank, a digital leader that took several regional awards, explains how technology and lifestyle banking will drive the industry.

The Bank of Distinction Award honors entities that are punching above their weight, using digital technology to deliver a competitive customer experience.

Tapodyuti Bose, global head of Channels and Enterprise Services, Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, explains the importance of removing friction with open banking.

With the arrival of open banking, the era of real-time financial data and the end of banks’ monopoly on their clients’ account information is at hand.

Regulators are pressing for institutions to open their APIs. But first, the banks need to know their customers want what open banking can give them.

As a pathway to harmonization and platform interoperability for financial institutions, ISO 20022 is catching on. But migration to the global payments standard could be easier.

Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase have picked a doctor to lead their health care venture.

Europe's biggest tech IPO in 2018 is a smashing success.

Campbell Soup CEO ousted as company fails to maintain sales amid consumer shift to healthy, natural, and organic foods.

By taking a different approach this year, Global Finance was able to explore a new range of innovation.

Irish government's legal and planning processes spur Apple to cancel data center construction plan.

The breakneck pace of innovation in finance shows no signs of slowing.

Tate & Lyle's new CFO expected to be pro-active on the M&A front to take advantage of growing consumer demand for health and wellness products.

Bans and regulations are encouraging novel workarounds by cryptocurrencies.

The few corporations that have embraced cryptocurrencies tend to be small or troubled. However, spinoff technologies from digital currency such as blockchain are likely to play a major role in corporate finance and international banking.

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

Ever-changing political and economic environments keep cash management professionals agile.

Providers have to deal with issues both big and small with firms both big and small.

Newer market economies face issues of smaller scale and a wider array of currencies than their western counterparts.

News-heavy year required flexibility in cash management solutions.

Vendors guide corporate clients through increasingly frictionless—though initially disorienting—new platforms.

In the wake of the US tax overhaul, corporate treasuries brace for repatriation of assets.

Speed becomes the key differentiator for treasury and cash management providers.

While we are witnessing a global race for instant payments, this momentum isn’t likely to result in a global real-time payments solution anytime soon.

What does it take to excel at trade finance on a regional or global scale?

Lisa Lansdowne-Higgins, vice president of business deposits and treasury solutions, personal and commercial banking at RBC, discusses changes in innovation and free trade. 

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Countries like Algeria, Morocco, Bolivia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal and Bangladesh have all issued bans—or at least begun the process—on bitcoin and other alternative currencies, in order to stamp out tax evasion and irresponsible trading.