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Africa’s best bank for transaction services 2021: Citi

Regional banks in Africa are developing internationally orientated and increasingly sophisticated transaction services platforms; often, as at Equity Bank, to service corporate and small and medium-sized enterprise clients trading across borders. Ecobank, meanwhile, is bolstering its business with partnerships including part-owners Qatar National Bank and Nedbank, as well as with regional telecoms companies and payments firms like Flutterwave.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Western Europe’s best bank for SMEs 2021: HSBC

HSBC, with big operations in the UK and France as well as a presence on the ground in 20 markets across Europe, wins the award for the region’s best bank for small and medium-sized enterprises this year, against strong challenges from UniCredit and Santander.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Latin America’s best bank for transaction services 2021: Citi

In 2020 Citi added 11 new countries in Latin America to its digital onboarding platform, which now stands at 47 countries globally. Its global platform enables the US bank to provide unrivalled geographical breadth in its digitization efforts. Not only can the bank be more efficient itself – rolling out central innovations globally – but it also enables its multinational client list to embrace digital banking in most of the markets in which it operates.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Awards for Excellence 2021: Best bank in Austria

The region's best banks, country by country

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Middle East’s best bank for corporate responsibility 2021: National Bank of Bahrain

Corporate responsibility is at the heart of what National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) does. It is hard to find worthy projects, causes and charities that the Manama-based lender is not involved in funding and furthering.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Western Europe’s best bank for corporate responsibility 2021: BBVA

Covid has, unsurprisingly, dominated the corporate responsibility agenda at banks across Europe. A key determinant in this category was the effectiveness with which firms addressed the acute challenges that many of their clients have faced, from the initial healthcare emergency to longer-term financial distress. BBVA stepped up to the task promptly and at scale and takes the regional award this year.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Latin America’s best digital bank 2021: Nubank

Nubank, Latin America’s best digital bank, is still very much in growth mode. Over the past year it has further built out from its credit card origins; current accounts have been added and the bank has acquired online investment platform Easynvest.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Western Europe’s best bank 2021: BNP Paribas

Business diversification has proved to be a crucial asset for BNP Paribas over the past year. Relatively intact operations such as fixed income trading have provided vital props to its financial performance compared with local rivals that had made deeper cuts to those businesses pre-Covid. Post-pandemic the bank has become even more important as a financier to its western European clients. It has also moved earlier than other top-tier global banks to burnish its sustainability credentials.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

North America’s best bank for sustainable finance 2021: Citi

Jane Fraser, who took over as Citi’s chief executive on March 1, 2021, wasted no time in putting ESG at the top of the bank’s agenda. On her first day she announced the bank’s commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

North America’s best bank for corporate responsibility 2021: Bank of America

Nearly all banks talk about corporate responsibility, few make it integral to the way they work. What sets Bank of America apart is that it has been doing just that for years and this year it receives the award for North America’s best bank for corporate responsibility.

July 14, 2021

CAPITAL MARKETS

China’s crackdown on US listings heralds new era

Beijing made clear this week that it is determined to stop its firms from selling shares in New York. A simultaneous crackdown on ride-hailing firm Didi also offers a timely reminder to global investors that China is no longer committed to market reforms but to ideology and sovereignty in the Xi Jinping era.

Elliot Wilson, July 13, 2021

Opinion

Pakistan: Anyone for MSCI tennis?

If you have Wimbledon withdrawal symptoms, watch Pakistan’s status in MSCI’s indices, which has the same quality as a ball being smacked back and forwards during an interminable rally.

July 13, 2021

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