
Trade Finance In Wartime
The huge drop-off in trade involving Russia and Ukraine has hit trade finance hard.
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The huge drop-off in trade involving Russia and Ukraine has hit trade finance hard.
Superpowerful computers will extract enormous benefits from artificial intelligence—and deliver proportional advantages.
The Covid-19 pandemic created some waves in the foreign exchange markets over the last couple of years, but the re-emergence of global inflation and inflation-fighting central banks has truly rocked the currency world this year.
The largest company in the world can fluctuate day to day, even minute by minute, depending what measurement is used. Tesla began 2022 as the world's fifth largest company by market cap and ended the year in 11th place after their CEO Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter.
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.
Emerging and developing economies will likely be hardest hit by Covid-19. Rebuilding will require addressing preexisting conditions as well as the new ones.
The world’s richest families are looking to real estate and private equity as they flesh out post-Covid investment strategies.
The global health crisis is forcing banks to accelerate digital transformation. Customers are responding.
Imran Khan, head of Global Digital Experience at TD and president and CEO of UGO Mobile Solutions, reveals how to make life easier for consumers.
Khaled Abbas, wholesale banking head at Gulf International Bank (GIB), shares his thoughts on how the pandemic is pushing banks to find agile methods to meet corporate needs.
Quintessential Capital Management Managing Partner Gabriel Grego explains why his much-maligned “short activism” is good for investors and markets.
Our supplement looks at the rise of smart finance and the baby steps that banks are taking into cryptocurrencies.
Despite the best efforts of innovators and regulators, ubiquitous open banking might still be a ways off. Can the Covid crisis help to jump-start it?
With derivatives contracts soaring due to the pandemic, so did OCC’s cash balance.
Despite some setbacks, cryptocurrency continues to grow and expand. Now that JPMorgan Chase is on board, will other traditional banks follow?
Dennis Gada, senior vice president and head of Financial Services, North America, for Infosys, spoke with Global Finance about digital transformation in financial services—including treasury—in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.
Trade wars, a pandemic and heightened regulation are making KYC processes a priority and spurring institutions like Swift and the Fed to standardize them.
The practical requirement for more-efficient digital operations and client interfaces—and now pandemic-induced lockdowns—have put smart digital on fast forward.
In a period of uncertainty, when cash is king, treasurers are looking for greater access to data to optimize liquidity management.
With an election looming, Ghana’s economy grapples with a pandemic, falling oil revenues, a nagging fiscal deficit and the imperative to diversify.
The Covid-19 crisis derailed Portugal’s economic comeback. Can stimulus, fiscal prudence and an attractive climate for retirees get it back on track?
Overnight, the three big banks’ decision makes PCAF, founded in 2015 by the Netherlands consultancy Guidehouse, a focal point in the struggle over how to address climate change.
Multiple governments in recent years have amended existing legislation or adopted new regulatory processes to better screen or block FDI, if necessary.
The high-stakes battle is being watched closely as a showdown over the vast commercial power of the iPhone producer.
Israel’s Economy Ministry calculates that the normalization of ties could increase exports to the UAE to US$300 million to $500 million annually while according to Moody’s Investors Services, UAE investments in Israel could reach US$350 million a year.
Wirecard’s scandalous collapse exposes the weakness of a single EU financial market that leaves regulatory supervision to the member states.
Chrystia Freeland adds finance minister to her résumé alongside deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs.
COO Jim Farley will become Ford Motor Company’s CEO in October, succeeding Jim Hackett.
The 2008 crisis highlighted the role of company CFOs; the pandemic is highlighting the role of HR.
The abrupt announcement that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was resigning for health issues after nearly eight years in power startled the world.
In recent weeks, Barbados, Bermuda, Estonia and Georgia have announced new extended-stay visas for individuals who earn their income abroad.
A number of major retailers in the US filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection during the pandemic, including Sears and J.C. Penney.
As economies grapple with the economic disaster of the novel coronavirus, the value and number of M&A deals worldwide have deflated.
In today’s environment, special purpose acquisition companies for big investors are getting bigger and bolder.
When investors become less willing to take risks, they’ve traditionally turned to the dollar and gold as safe havens.
S&P Global is forecasting bank loan losses to reach $366 billion for the US and Canada over the two years to the end of 2021.
As Cuba reopens its economy, the government hopes loosened restrictions and dollarization of international trade will spur expansion.
As the Asian Development Bank shifts its 2020 Annual General Meeting to virtual, Covid-19 policy measures take center stage.
Taiwan effectively contained Covid-19, clearing the path for intermediate-term economic growth.