November 2020

China continues to mint new high-net-worth individuals, and private banks global and domestic are eager to serve.

Bank safety has never mattered more than it does now.

Global Finance names the 50 Safest Banks in Europe.

Gulf state banks joined midsized Chinese banks in outsized asset growth.

Global Finance names this year’s safest banks in emerging markets.

Japan’s biggest banks surge past others in balance-sheet growth.

Global Finance’s annual rankings of the World’s Safest Banks has been a recognized and trusted standard of financial counterparty safety for more than a quarter-century.

Sharia principles are no barrier to stable long-term growth.

Global Finance names this year’s 50 safest commercial banks.

Global Finance names this year’s world’s safest banks by country.

R. Edward Freeman, an American philosopher and Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School at the University of Virginia, discusses his stakeholder theory and his work on business ethics.

From high growth to laggard status, Spain has felt the pandemic’s economic sting. Now, a budget crisis threatens its recovery.

Nigeria faces leadership, institutional and security challenges to building a sustainable economy. But first, it must break out of its second recession in four years.

For now, Australia’s most vital exports, which include liquid natural gas, iron ore and copper, have not been affected by rising tensions with China.

U.S. Department of Justice alleges Google violated anti-trust laws.

The market for green bonds could surpass US$1 trillion early in the first half of 2021.

Regulators are using ESG metrics to stress-test banks.

As investors and other stakeholders apply pressure for sustainable policies on the environment and society, companies are changing their ways, somewhat—and also pushing back.

British Airways has become a political football, as rose-tinted nostalgia for a flagship brand often distorts the realities of aviation today and in the future.

Gilson will join a small band of non-Japanese CEOs that includes Owen Mahoney at Nexon, Christophe Weber at Takeda Pharmaceutical and Eva Chen at Trend Micro.

The passing of the man who transformed Samsung from small trading business into tech giant inaugurates a new era.

Arabtec may struggle to meet the end of November deadline set by shareholders to formally submit liquidation plans to a court. 

The semiconductor industry is undergoing serious consolidation.

Delayed by Covid-19, the central bank of Australia plans to license the country’s first Islamic bank in early 2021.

Recent acquisitions strengthen Morgan Stanley’s core wealth management, asset management and institutional securities businesses, Gorman argues, and open more possibilities for cross-selling. 

The ECB has announced that it will decide by mid-2021 when to launch a digital euro project, beginning with an investigative phase.

The credit card titans seek to leverage AI and data tools to deliver cybersecurity and other financial solutions as banks find it increasingly challenging to operate in the digital world.

Technology is being leveraged to bolster diversity.

Covid-19 cruelly crushed some innovators, but the companies that have reinvented themselves are getting stronger.

Kazakhstan is embracing cutting-edge fintech.

The pandemic may have closed stores and movie theatres but not the IPO market.

Sierra Leone offers a wealth of resources and a future of longterm growth, but it’s only for those who can handle the ups and downs.