Emerging & Frontier Markets
Argentina: Breathing Space?
President Javier Milei’s currency moves give markets room for planning, but his ambitious economic restructuring faces roadblocks. For the better...
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
The Changing Face Of FDI
After years of lackluster growth, foreign direct investment is growing. As recent history has consistently demonstrated, there is nothing...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Introduction
Global banking aced 2023 despite the drama of bank failures. The banking industry emerged triumphant in 2023, a year that...
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COP28: A crucial waypoint in the Race to Zero
On 30 November, the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference begins in Dubai. With COP28 taking place in the United Arab Emirates, just one year after COP27 in Egypt, the concerns of developing economies will be at the forefront of the global climate agenda.
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Asia-Pacific
However, the second-largest economy remains conspicuously absent. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region last year—as in 2022—net interest margin (NIM) dynamics...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Central America
Post-pandemic growth meets soaring remittances. Central American economies have flourished in the pandemic’s aftermath due to the region’s lower-than-average inflation,...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Central And Eastern Europe
With war in their midst and a challenging macroeconomic environment regionally and globally, it wasn’t an easy year for banks...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Latin America
Banks show solid performance but regional economies didn’t fare as well. It was an overall solid year for Latin American...
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ION: helping FX clients thrive in uncertain times
Foreign exchange trading is, like other investments, susceptible to the volatility that can plague us all in uncertain times. And the past few years have seen more uncertainty than most.
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2024 Private Bank Awards Dinner
Global Finance hosted this year’s Private Bank Awards Dinner on the evening of March 21, 2024. Convening in the iconic...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Middle East
Leading Middle Eastern banks offer a bumper crop of online services. With their deep knowledge of domestic and regional markets,...
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World’s Best Banks 2024—North America
Banks blend the best of high-touch services and low-touch environments. For the Best Bank winners in North America, aggressive innovation...
Economic Data
Inflation Rate 2024: A Global Comparison
The Consumer Price Index only tells part of the story. Two years ago, inflation reached a 40-year high in the...
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Innovating Corporate Banking to Drive Kuwaits Digital Transformation
Kuwait’s leading banking innovator, Boubyan Bank is transforming corporate banking with a fully digital one-stop corporate platform. Abdul-Salam Mohammed Al-Saleh, Chief Executive Officer, Boubyan Bank’s Corporate Banking, Financial Control, Treasury and Legal Affair, discusses the bank’s corporate banking strategy, market opportunities in transactional, trade and supply chain banking and commitment to serving as a digital transformation partner to corporates.
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World’s Best Banks 2024—Western Europe
Banks see client growth and a bump in transactions and sustainable lending. Most Western European banks had an exceptional 2023,...