Gilly Wright

Your friendly neighborhood UPS driver could be replaced by a flying robot sooner than you think.

The Federal Reserve now offers a real-time payment option.

Digital banks continue to evolve and grow.

Secil Watson, executive vice president and head of Digital Solutions for Business at Wells Fargo, explains how banks can add value to their corporate customers.

Mohamed Badat, chief commercial officer of Bidaya Home Finance, explains how digital is speeding up and simplifying the mortgage process.

Banks are fighting to differentiate themselves digitally with a plethora of new, non-traditional services for corporate clients and individual consumers.

Fintech solutions offer a plethora of advantages to corporate treasury. So why are treasurers reluctant to partner directly with these innovators? 

Facebook's new currency faces regulatory hurdles.

Open banking promises to deepen banks’ relationship with their customers. But different jurisdictions are moving at very different speeds to accept and encourage it. 

Open banking and real-time payments are changing the market. Banks hope a wave of acquisitions and partnerships will keep them competitive. 

This year’s expanded scope of entries shows how banks are using digital technologies to think outside the box.

Digital innovations have utterly transformed payments, making every choice more personal—and more mobile.

Evans Munyuki, chief digital officer for Emirates NBD, reveals how to create a fully digital ecosystem and highlights the technologies with the most promise.

Ty Panagoplos, CIO of TD Securities, explains the importance of technology and talent in keeping pace with change.

Isaac Kamuta, group head of Cash Management and Client Access at Ecobank, explains how technology is helping Africa provide the next level of financial services.

Islamic bankers are developing innovations and workarounds that enable them to bring Shariah-compliant services into the digital age.

Jordi Nicolau, executive director of Global Customer Experience at CaixaBank, addresses fintech trends and open banking.

If innovation doesn’t deliver value to customers, what’s the point?

Bidyut Dumra, head of Innovation, Technology and Operations at DBS Bank, talks about internal and external innovation.

As Brazil steps closer to open banking, Gustavo Fosse, director of Technology, Banco do Brasil, explains how payments innovations are bringing change to Latin America, and new proposals to give consumers more control over their own data.

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.