The digital dividend dominated the cash management market in 2020. Corporates responded well to those banks that digitalized the services they needed to stay afloat in the choppy waters of a global pandemic.

Investors and analysts had expected an insider to succeed António Horta-Osório, but new CEO Charlie Nunn could still be a continuity candidate when he is allowed to take his post.

Euromoney’s futurologist Mystic Maca gets on a Zoom call with next year, when markets return to a version of normality.

Across every sector and region HSBC stands out for its commitment to developing partnerships and products that will bring finance at scale to create a more sustainable and resilient planet.

Covid-19 has not simply accelerated the push to digital but has also changed the nature of transaction banking itself.

The new chief executive of HSBC had announced a big cost-cutting programme just before Covid hit. He was smart enough to pause it and encourage local staff around the world, even in locations where the redundancies were set to fall, to back their customers with quick loan decisions. Noel Quinn discusses the bank’s impressive response.

Analysts hope HSBC will announce a more radical strategy shift when the bank posts half-year results on Monday. Executives at a bank caught between an irascible Chinese public and quarrelsome US politicians, might simply wish for better days ahead.

Private sector digital adoption is surging because of the pandemic. The resultant efficiencies will partially offset pressure on profitability at the bank.

Saudi Arabia’s Al-Rajhi is named the region's best bank in this year’s Euromoney Awards for Excellence.

Crédit Agricole takes the lead in Western Europe in this year's Euromoney Awards for Excellence.

HSBC has been central to maintaining imports of vital goods into the region, even while national borders slammed shut.

In a transformative year for capital markets in the Middle East, HSBC stands out as the region’s best investment bank, reclaiming the title it last won in 2017.

Year after year, HSBC quietly gets on with the key business of delivering crucial funding to clients whether they are looking to refinance debt, acquire an asset or rival, or just bulk up their balance sheet in the face of a once-in-a-century global pandemic.

HSBC retains its title as the Middle East’s best bank for transaction services for the second year running by stepping up to the challenge of helping customers trade and transact at a time of closed borders and supply-chain disruption.

The list of deals from 2019 and 2020 – green bonds, social bonds, sustainability bonds and ESG-linked loans – goes on and on for HSBC in Asia under Jonathan Drew, managing director, sustainable finance.

The Middle East is a hard market in which to be truly sustainable, given the vast amount of money in the region that is tied to oil now and will be for some time.

There is fierce competition in sustainable finance in Western Europe, but this year one bank stands out for its commitment across all the sectors and countries in which it operates and for its work on ensuring the needs of both environment and society are addressed.

The London-headquartered lender has its roots and its future in Asia, and from the outset it was keen to provide staunch support to its customers across the region. It has been everywhere throughout the Covid-19 crisis, playing, in the words of chief executive Noel Quinn, a “massive role” in supporting communities and helping restore economic growth.

DBS reaffirms its best bank status in the region in this year’s Euromoney Awards for Excellence.

Supply chain disruption will create new challenges for transaction bankers and may lead to long-term changes in global trade patterns.

HSBC’s strategy shift will see it deploy more capital, assets and risk to the region. The challenge is the same one it faced a decade ago: how to do more in China and southeast Asia. But the truth is that the bank is not as strong beyond Hong Kong as it should be

When a ‘major deal’ is more misnomer than mind-blowing.

Freshly empowered European bank chairmen are making perplexing lurches as they search for new chief executives. A random CEO generator might help.

The interim chief executive unveils a radical three-year restructuring plan that makes abundant strategic sense but carries plenty of execution risk.

HSBC launched its green deposit account in the first week of February with a deposit from a building materials company.

The leading banks in Euromoney’s Trade Finance Survey 2020 comment on the highlights of the last 12 months and their expectations for the year to come.

UBS Global Wealth Management retains the top spot; JPMorgan is a standout, too.

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The senior management team at HSBC looks increasingly chaotic. It needs to fix that, before it can fix the bank.