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 once again on Global Finance's ranking of the Safest Banks. Not just the safest banks in the world, in the emerging markets, or the safest commercial banks, but also in each of more than 100 countries.
For us this represents not just a way to celebrate excellence in the banking sector, as expressed by the three major credit rating agencies, but also to provide our readers with a working tool to navigate the banking world. Over the years the Safest Banks rankings have become one of the most recognized and appreciated awards in our magazine, but they are also a status symbol for financial institutions worldwide.
This year, while we confront uncertainty on many global fronts, these rankings have another added value. They represent continuity and innovation in the banking sector and remind many skeptics that, no matter how confused the global scenarios may be, some banks always excel.
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