Technology

Tom Manning, affiliate partner at Waterstone Management, has been advising global companies on China, and vice-versa, for years. The onetime CEO of Ernst & Young Consulting Asia, Capgemini Asia, Cerberus Asia and Indachin, and former senior partner at Bain, sat down with Global Finance to discuss the nation’s quiet innovation revolution.

Q+A
Michael Curran, head of foreign exchange, BNY Mellon Markets Group, sees blockchain technology as the FX market’s key innovation.
 

Interview with Brian Edmondson, Global Leader for Working Capital Finance and Corporate Digital Channels at MISYS, discussing the challenges presented by legacy infrastructure in digital banking.

Interview with Tamas Braun, Sales Specailist for MISYS Digital Channels discusses how banks are responding to the opportunities presented by digital solutions and what the next evolution of digital banking will be.

The Full Listing Of Global, Regional, and Country Awards Winners for The Best Digital Banks of 2015

Q+A with Hubert Jolly, Managing Director, Head of Channel & Enterprise Services, Treasury & Trade Solutions at Citi

Q+A with Alex Chen, Executive Vice President of Ctbc Bank

Country Report | Israel
Chinese investors flock to the nation’s cutting-edge tech sector.

As digital banking transformation becomes a key competitive tool, Global Finance recognizes those banks making the most-effective and most-innovative changes.

The World’s Best Digital Bank Awards was preceded this year by the inaugural Global Finance Digital Bank Conference, held in London. Three panels of digital banking experts shared their experiences of competing against nontraditional providers in the financial technology space.

Q+A with Juraj Bojkovský, Director Of Electronic Distribution Channels At Tatra banka

Q+A with Asit Oberoi, Senior President And Chief Operating Officer, YES Bank

Trends | Fintech
China’s Big Three Internet and e-commerce companies—Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent—are so big they are referred to collectively as BAT, and all three have received banking licenses and scaled up their e-commerce and finance platforms.

In the province of Imbabura in northern Ecuador, approximately a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the capital, Quito, and close to the border of Colombia, sits Yachay, the country’s first planned “city of knowledge.”

Capital Markets | Deal Matchmaking
In this age of social media, even business matchmaking, traditionally the domain of word of mouth and handshakes, could use a little tech facelift.

As digital banking transformation becomes a key competitive tool, Global Finance recognizes those banks making the most-effective and most-innovative changes.

Deutsche Bank’s Isabel Schmidt discusses FinTech and the banks digital strategy to delivering cutting edge digital payment services to clients and the challenges and opportunities presented by blockchain technology.  She continues with the effect of standardized and streamlined digital payments on fees and Deutsche Bank's efforts to deliver advanced connectivity systems.

Deutsche Bank’s Graham Warner discusses the ways the Bank is taking advantage of big data to better service customers, their approach to keeping customer data and bank assets safe and how it differentiates its digital offerings in the marketplace.

Market Trends | FinTech
News that 13 additional banks have joined financial innovation firm R3’s distributed ledger initiative signifies the savings the banking sector believes blockchain technologies can deliver to the financial services sector.

Market Trends | Intellectual Property
A European patent regime with unitary effect and a Unitary Patent Court is set to come into force as early as 2017, making it simpler and cheaper for international corporations to defend their intellectual property rights.