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  Global Finance: How has CBQ’s successful tech innovation influenced your overall banking strategy? Shahnawaz Rashid: Technology and innovation has more than influenced CBQ: it is the core of our banking strategy. Client experience and innovation are two of the ...

Today, Georgia’s reputation as one of the easiest places in the world to conduct business, combined with generous government subsidies – including but not limited to incentives for automotive and electrical manufacturing, low taxes and operating costs, a highly educated ...

As economies reopen, Financial Services (FS) organizations continue to focus on reinventing ways of working and doing business. Dennis Gada from Infosys explains how cloud is shifting from being a technology enabler to business transformation enabler.

One of Bahrain’s largest financial institutions, Ahli United Bank (AUB) is at the forefront of digital transformation. Its mass adoption of FinTech services resulted in exceptional performance despite economic turbulence, and AUB has won multiple accolades for financial performance, growth, ...

Social media is an indispensable marketing tool for knowing your customers. Hussein M. Ali Al-Abdulla, Commercial Bank Qatar’s Executive General Manager & Chief Marketing Officer, discusses strategies that made it Global Finance’s “Best Bank for Social Media & Marketing” for ...

The conversation about digital business model innovation is not new, but it has never been more pressing. As CEOs grapple with their biggest challenge, namely, how to stay relevant amid rapid change and uncertainty, the legacy pipeline-based business model was ...

BOC is rapidly scaling up its green finance businesses with an extensive range of innovative green finance products and services, including funds, wealth management, leasing, equity investments, insurance, financial advisory services, and listing and financing services for enterprises. A leader ...

Egypt’s premier private sector bank, CIB has made a deep institutional commitment to ESG practices that is transforming the bank into a major force for sustainable finance in Egypt and around the world. As a founding member of the Net ...

Global Finance: How has TBC Bank been instrumental in supporting Georgia’s economic growth? Vakhtang Butskhrikidze: TBC Bank Group PLC, listed on the London Stock Exchange, is a technology-driven company with a mission to make people’s lives easier through quality services ...

“Sustainability is in our DNA,” says Hacina Py, who was recently appointed as Societe Generale’s Chief Sustainability Officer. They have been committed as a Group for a long time as they were one of the first banks to join the ...

  In June, Johannesburg-based Standard Bank officially launched OneHub, a digital platform that helps the bank’s clients and partners interact. OneHub gives clients access to eight built-in solutions (and growing) along with six APIs, all with one password. “It’s a ...

Disruptive forces are increasingly defining Russia’s banking landscape. Amid the rapid pace of digitalisation, business models – and customer expectations – are changing. Corporate initiatives to create their own ecosystems have focused on identifying synergies and new niches, developing products ...

As companies globally are developing ESG strategies to address climate change, Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) has put environmental protection at the center of its banking, governance, and operational strategy, with significant initiatives for developing green finance and reducing ...

Prime markets for FinTech in the Middle East Considered an unsaturated market, the Middle East has become in recent years an attractive destination for FinTechs due to its large unbanked or underbanked young population, high cash usage, and recent regulatory ...

Home to more than 2,400 financial services firms, Palm Beach County is experiencing significant financial sector growth as major companies - including Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs – are flocking to the county. Dozens of financial firms recently relocated to, ...

Millennials expect on-demand banking as well as fast, seamless, contactless, and one-click effortless payment options. Regulatory institutions and payments industry leaders too are driving this change by putting in place measures to streamline payments standards and rein in risk. The ...

Industry Innovation In 2018 Orbian opened up the supply chain finance industry to more suppliers with the introduction of its eCard, combining a virtual payment card with a supply chain finance program free of any minimum annual procurement volume. “A ...

    Global Finance: The World Bank upgraded Tanzania’s economy in 2020 – what is driving the nation’s economic growth? CRDB Bank: Tanzania is among Africa’s fastest-growing economies, with nearly 7% GDP growth in the last decade, driven by agriculture ...

Global Finance: How are the capital-raising needs of Nigerian corporates evolving against today’s economic backdrop?   Banjo Adegbohungbe:      COVID-19 has created an urgent need for corporates everywhere to rethink how they finance their business operations. Amid the macroeconomic ...

A major retail bank with a unique endowment, Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) reported breakthrough business performance in 1H21, making gains in scale, quality and efficiency. With total assets and AUM for retail customers to RMB12 trillion respectively, a ...