Gilly Wright

After a year of challenges for the global FX market, the pace of change hasn’t slowed.

Global Finance honors this year’s best corporate FX providers.

Volatile markets spur innovation.

Amazon gets hit with a $1 billion fine by the Italian government for anti-competitive practices.

Sony Group Corporation (SGC) won Global Finance’s Best Company in the World for Foreign Exchange Management award for the successful implementation of its Metro global treasury management system, which supports all SGC business segments—except financial services—worldwide.

The pandemic caused bank clients worldwide to shift to online usage—a boon to banks that were prepared.

Naveed Anwar, global head of Digital Treasury & Trade Solutions at Citi, shares his thoughts on the digital requirements of corporates.

Berlin will be the home to Sber's first R&D facility outside of Russia.

Alexander Vedyakhin, first deputy chairman of the executive board at Sberbank, shares the Russian bank’s strategy on using data to deliver personalized services.

Alibaba Cloud is expanding into Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Thailand.

The launch this September follows Goldman Sachs’ UK launch of its digital offering in 2018.

Bootstrapping can be risky but also lucrative.

Chad Wallace, global head of digital Transaction Banking (TxB) at Goldman Sachs, discusses the advantage of BaaS and embedded finance, such as improved flexibility and new partnership opportunities.

Citi is divesting from underperforming markets to focus on wealth management and institutional and corporate banking.

Expanding partnerships fuel the next-generation of mobile apps.

Sael Al Waary, deputy group CEO of Bank ABC, discusses how AI has changed the rules for digital banking.

HSBC is doubling down on Asia.

Increasing competition, consumerization and the quest for a bigger wallet share have transaction banks eyeing retail divisions for inspiration.

Establishing a global tax regime may rob digital tax initiatives of their momentum.

Alberto Calderón brings with him experience in government and Colombia's mining sector.

Visibility is the key to maintaining control. 

Armed with new technologies, banks are finding new ways to keep customers happy and themselves profitable.

More than 440 financial services firms in the UK that are relocating part of their business, staff or legal entities to the EU due to Brexit.

Covid-19 caused banks to sprint to digitalization, but the transformational journey is long and ongoing.

The pandemic spurred financial institutions to ramp up technology upgrades and add new services at record speeds.

Aiding clients in weathering the pandemic involves more than deploying a few service tweaks.

Bank of America takes this year’s top honor from Global Finance.

The ability of cloud-based systems to deliver faster payments—and treasury insights—took on added importance during the pandemic.

If Kavcıoğlu’s appointment results in interest rate cuts, financial markets will naturally react by using the FX rate as an automatic stabilizer.

The fallout from the Juukan Gorge scandal has put executives at other mining companies on alert.

The world is watching to see if Australia succeeds in making Big Tech pay publishers for the content they profit from.

APIs are speeding up banks’ ability to deliver the modern data tools that finance executives want.

For Global Finance’s top TCM banks, navigating the Covid crisis means AI, innovation, better FX functionality and real-time for virtually everything.

Trade and technology advances are helping African banks and corporates weather the pandemic.

Regional banks are betting cash management digitalization and better cash-flow forecasting will give clients an edge post-pandemic.

Leaps in digitalization and automation, plus critical macro insights, are helping banks pull North American businesses through the Covid-19 crisis.

Top Middle Eastern banks are streamlining corporate services and scrambling to meet rising demand for self-service solutions.

E-banking, blockchain solutions and electronic signatures are some of the new and improved services that banks hope will strengthen bonds with their beleaguered clients.

Regional banks are innovating and partnering with fintechs to help their clients survive the pandemic—and make the treasurer’s job easier going forward.

Established in 2009 and commercially launched in 2012, Simple set a new standard for personal banking.

The company and its new CEO Pat Gelsinger have some kinks to iron out.

Bank tellers are being digitized.

A volatile currency environment is focusing attention on foreign exchange and day-to-day cash flow. 

Anna Mikhina, VP of Lifestyle Services Development at Tinkoff, explains why the bank’s super-app has been so popular during the pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic has given fresh impetus to the need for paper-free international trade processes. 

PNC's acquisition will make it the fifth-largest bank in the US.

Middle East regional winners of Global Finance’s Best Digital Bank awards are ramping up the shift to digital banking.

Tapodyuti Bose, managing director and global head of Digital Channels, Data & Analytics, Treasury & Trade Solutions at Citi, spoke with Global Finance about how digitization is helping businesses remain resilient and operational during the Covid pandemic.

Google Pay will be able to not only aggregate data from different banks but analyze that data and make special offers.

Banks are responding to the Covid-19 pandemic with innovations that could mark out the direction of their efforts to digitize for years to come.