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The global bank has refreshed its senior management but needs to start demonstrating its platform can deliver best-in-class returns.

HSBC takes the top spot in Euromoney’s survey for the third year in a row.

Partnership with digital investor platform is the latest move by bank’s Sprint fintech team.

The dynamics of the US securitization market have changed beyond recognition, while the role of banks in ABS has evolved too. The excesses of the past have gone and securitization is now a safe and reliable funding tool for consumer lending. So why don’t banks want to talk up their role in the market?

Why does the tech behemoth want to provide current accounts for users? It’s the data, stupid.

It appears that basic errors rather than deliberate attempts to game the system lay behind Citi’s large miscalculations of UK RWAs and CET1.

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The bank's head of treasury and trade solutions, EMEA, says: 'In transaction banking, we see exponential growth.'

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Citi

Australia Best Bank

Citi has long impressed for its front-end digital excellence, with streamlined and clever apps aplenty, and for its ability to integrate itself into the lives of its customers at every level through a string of partnerships across the region.

Citi remains the name to beat in regional transaction services.

Continued investment in people, technology and partnerships to consolidate the bank’s cash and trade networks in sub-Saharan Africa make Citi Africa’s best bank for transaction services for the third year in a row under Peter Crawley, its treasury and trade solutions head, based in Johannesburg.

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Citi’s reach and knowledge of African markets combined with its international banking expertise and balance sheet make it Africa’s best bank for financing for the second year in a row.

Citi’s local presence gives it an edge with financial sponsors, particularly the regional players, such as Mid Europa Partners, that drive a large chunk of deal flow in CEE.

Citi’s worldwide presence is proving an asset as new regional trading blocs emerge.

With Russian markets reeling from a fresh bout of sanctions and Turkey suffering extreme currency volatility, investment bankers in CEE were on the back foot last year. As the flow of larger deals slowed to a trickle, the small group of global players still focused on the region struggled to find a market for their services.