High-net-worth individuals today demand a wide array of sustainable investment options and increasingly sophisticated digital services. Larger, integrated institutions may be best placed to benefit from these trends.

Luis Javier Blas Agüeros, chief operating officer at CaixaBank outlines how banks can ensure their future success through innovation, cloud technology and the reinvention of their products and services.

Technological advancement is revolutionising financial services, and in the next few years even more profound change is likely to happen. Blockchain – or distributed ledger technology – is one technological advance in particular that offers immense potential to completely transform areas of transaction banking, if not the entire financial industry, says Lim Soon Chong, group head of global transaction services at DBS.

Australian banks are ready to return in force to the capital markets for their fundraising activity, with investors in Asia set to play a critical role in the deals.

Digital transformation has been a core pillar of Commercial Bank of Qatar’s five-year strategic plan, initiated in 2016. After consecutive years of investment in digitising its operations and banking businesses, the bank’s operational efficiency and financial performance has strengthened, highlighting the success of the transformation so far.

Environmental, social and governance considerations have been a strategic focus for CIB for quite a few years, pushing the Egyptian lender to the forefront of the regional banking industry's embrace of ESG issues. In an interview, CIB CEO Hussein Abaza, explains the importance of these issues to the bank and how this is reflected across its operations and businesses.

Anders la Cour, chief executive officer of Banking Circle Group, talks about the payments bank’s latest research, and how chief information and chief technology officers can future-proof their businesses.

In an interview, Gautier Mouzelard, head of transformation and compliance for global trade finance at BNP Paribas outlines the key elements of the bank’s digital transformation strategy in the business.

In this article, Yves Longchamp, head of research at SEBA Bank, explains the rise of digital assets and highlights an important component to unlocking greater institutional adoption.  

Mainland China’s sustainable bond market has gone from strength to strength recently, with issuers and investors finding new opportunities – and embracing international standards.

David Newns, global head of GlobalLink execution services, talks to Euromoney about some of the factors that have enabled the multi-dealer platform to increase its market share and achieve top ranking in the Euromoney 2021 FX survey.

Sriram Muthukrishnan, group head of product management, global transaction services, DBS, explains how digitisation is accelerating the sustainability agenda.

The European banking sector is facing three key challenges: a prolonged period of negative interest rates, the pace and scale of the digital transformation of the sector, and increased competition from established and new entrants.

In an interview, Shi Bo, general manager and CIO (equity) of Southern Asset Management, warns of lower short-term stock market returns ahead, but sees plenty of opportunity for growth in investment advisory.

The CEO of one of the world’s largest banks said recently that institutions “risk losing their licence to operate”, if they fail to make green finance a priority. At a recent annual general meeting of another global bank, there were many questions about sustainability, leaving little time for discussion of more traditional financial matters. Momentum has been building for years, but now sustainable banking is coming of age.

It can be difficult to imagine a world in which real-time payments are the norm for businesses. Yet Jon Levine, co-head of institutional banking at payments bank, Banking Circle, explains why the reality is closer than businesses realise.

Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service recently assigned a B1 credit rating to Jusan Bank, one of Kazakhstan’s leading banks. The award is in recognition of the successful work and strategy of the bank's new management team. In an interview, Aibek Kayip, Jusan’s chairman of the management board, explains what has been achieved by the bank, and highlights some of the new challenges it is facing.

Digital transformation has been a core pillar of Commercial Bank of Qatar’s five-year strategic plan, initiated in 2016. In an interview, Joseph Abraham, group CEO, talks about what evolving into a more digital enterprise means for the bank and its retail and wholesale banking businesses.