Treasury is undergoing its fastest transformation in a decade. The shift from operational to strategic decision-making is unmistakable and the tools that support treasurers must evolve just as quickly ...

Exactly one year ago, San Francisco-based First Republic Bank was sold by regulators amid a US regional banking crisis. Citizens Financial Group, which had seen the sale as a chance to turbocharge its ...

It is a year since Indian prime minister Narendra Modi turned his country’s transactional finances upside down with his demonetization programme. The dust has now settled. People will argue for years ...

Nubank has revolutionized digital banking in Latin America. But the foundational ingredient to the bank’s extraordinary growth lies elsewhere, in something a little more humdrum, a little more ...

China’s e-CNY, piloted in 2019, has positioned the country as a leader in central bank digital currencies (CBDC). Growth has been impressive, especially following the launch of its mobile app in 2022.

While an increasing number of central banks are shifting their focus from retail to wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), China’s e-CNY, a retail CBDC, has shown notable progress, despite ...

Sir David Scholey (DS) joined SG Warburg in 1965, becoming deputy chairman in 1977 and chairman in 1980. Today, he remains a senior adviser to UBS. Peter Spira (PS) joined SG Warburg in 1957 and was ...

From small beginnings as the offshoot of a British merchant bank in 1969, Macquarie has become the world’s largest infrastructure asset manager, a powerful investment bank, a global commodities player ...

Citi’s trajectory over the past 15 years has epitomised the much wider changes in the global banking industry. Until the sub-prime crisis, the group had consumer franchises spread across 50 countries ...

Long known as a hot Caribbean tourist destination, the Dominican Republic continues to invest in the critical sector at pace. The country is attracting substantial financial investment beyond the ...

As real-time domestic payments become ubiquitous across major economies, the spotlight is turning to cross-border transactions. As the global cross-border payments market is expected to reach $290 ...