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Head of Global Markets E-Commerce at National Bank of Abu Dhabi David Wilkins explains how NBAD's new digital platform, Emerald, was designed from the ground up to meet client needs, while strengthening the bank as a fulcrum between West and East and expanding its reach.

Although the frequency of civil wars has fallen in recent decades, civil conflict in the Middle East has become ever more prevalent since the Arab Spring. A number of nations, including Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Iraq and others, have experienced either ...

Being a bank at the top of your game in global treasury and cash management is not for the faint hearted. Banks that win our global awards for Best Treasury & Cash Management tend to have more than one of ...

Determining the influence of the state in a given company, and what that means for investors, is a surprisingly nuanced exercise.

David Wilkins, head of Global Markets E-Commerce at National Bank of Abu Dhabi,  discusses the bank's digital platform, its e-commerce strategy, and Abu Dhabi as a Fintech hub straddling West and East.

Millenial millionaires aren't quite the "millionaire next door" of yore: they come with new attitudes and new futures to carve out. 

"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain", famously said baron Edmond James de Rothschild.

Wells Fargo's Investment Institute offers a glance on key themes in the Investment Industry for 2016.

What is the single most critical factor wealth managers must change about their service in the next 12 months? Improve operational effiency 30% Improve technological iterations (eg web, app, email, ...

At almost 79, Ratan Naval Tata is donning the captain’s cap again at the $108 billion Tata Group. He’s back at his Bombay House corner office at group headquarters, taking daily calls on operations. After four years of retirement, the ...

As the reality of a Donald Trump presidency sinks in with the world's markets, financial professionals and economic groups are choosing to look at the stimulus that could result from the election of the real estate developer turned reality show star.

With billionaire president-elect Donald Trump in the White House, we may be about to witness a revival of bling. Trump has promised to lower taxes on the wealthy, giving them more to spend on everything from Apples (iPad) to zircon ...

Paolo Sironi, thought leader for IBM in wealth management, talks about robot financial advisors and how they could make personal finance--from retirement planning to saving for college or a vacation--more engaging. 

With great wealth comes a burden of keeping it. Last year, the net worth of 1,400 billionaires worldwide that are being tracked in a study declined for the first time in a decade—to $5.1 trillion. And while 210 people rose ...

Corporate compliance and due diligence headaches may be easing, as a number of new services have been launched to help companies screen suppliers against global sanctions lists. Ever-increasing regulatory requirements, including broader monitoring and compliance obligations, and ever-changing sanctions and ...

One message comes quite clearly out of Sibos in Geneva this year: fintech companies and financial institutions are re-thinking their relationships. And in general both sides are ready to consider different models of collaboration and coexistence. Few possibilities are excluded. ...

​At Sibos in Geneva, financial technology, or fintech (blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning), was present in almost every conference presentation and workshop. And even in those sessions that didn’t directly reference it, one felt a sense that banking in particular ...

The term 'financial inclusion' is often equated with the working poor in developing countries. But if the term is thought of more broadly as referring to those that have limited or restricted access to financial services such as loans and ...

This year, Innotribe, the Swift initiative long known for launching fintech start-ups around the globe, changed gears. Rather than running its incubators and challenges throughout the globe, it focused on two emerging fintech hubs: Latin America and Africa. That opened ...

The strong growth in digital payment transactions highlighted in the recently released World Payments Report 2016 from management consultant Capgemini and banking group BNP Paribas is good news, but it’s more than that. This growth, particularly in the emerging markets, ...