Ben T. Smith IV, a longtime Silicon Valley executive and currently head of the Communications, Media and Technology practice at Kearney, speaks to Global Finance about the post-SVB venture capital industry and the pace of innovation.
Many of the world's richest countries are also the world's smallest: the pandemic and the global economic slowdown barely made a dent in their huge wealth.
Global Finance editor Andrea Fiano interviews Ásgeir Jónsson, Central Bank Governor of Iceland during Global Finance's World's Best Bank Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on October 15th.
This issue of the magazine focuses primarily on the safest banks: those globally and in emerging markets, but also in each one of nearly one hundred countries. For us this represents not just a way to celebrate excellence in the banking sector but also a way to provide our readers with a working tool to navigate the banking world. For this reason, we also focus this month on banking regulation, on the rating agencies and their universe, and on the strategies of the world’s safest banks.
Over the years Global Finance’s Safest Bank Rankings have become one of the most recognized and appreciated pieces of research we produce, and we are proud to present to our readers the first-ever Safest Banks Issue, with expanded coverage of this critical topic.