Private banking is a business based on personal relationships and trust – and it’s hard to truly connect with someone on Zoom. So long as the pandemic persists, this presents a substantial challenge to wealth managers, who can only grow their businesses by bonding with wealthy clients and winning new mandates.

Australians may draw a different meaning from MAS’s terminology.

Equity Bank takes the region's best bank accolade in this year's Euromoney Awards for Excellence.

Standard Chartered’s contribution to the development of African markets this year was shown in several transformational infrastructure deals, including Tanzania’s light railway and a huge offshore oil drilling rig in Angola. This contribution makes it Euromoney’s best bank for financing in Africa.

Ghana’s banking sector went through severe challenges in 2018 after the central bank’s asset quality review in 2017 revealed several structural challenges, including poor corporate governance, poor risk-management practices and regulatory non-compliance.

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

Digital solutions embraced as corporates get used to remote working and as banks adjust to the new normal.

Across Asia, the coronavirus is hampering banks’ ability to run roadshows, and even hold meetings, and some business continuity plans are starting to kick in.

Returning money to shareholders was an important milestone; building revenues and controlling costs remains the key task.

The global head of transaction banking at StanChart says: 'We will see better results if we work together.'

Australia Best Bank

There have been several ground-breaking sustainable finance deals in the last 12 months in Africa and one bank has been at the forefront of them: Standard Chartered.

Bahrain Best Bank

Closure of second investigation brings embarrassing episode to an end.

The culture is changed and numbers are solid, but return on equity isn’t going to budge without progress on costs.

The banking and financial conference scores highly with Euromoney's correspondent.

SC Ventures launched in Singapore; combines internal accelerator with venture capital.

The west African state has reclaimed its status as the most attractive francophone market south of the Sahara. International banks are rushing to do business there.

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Africa’s best investment bank, Standard Chartered, owes its success to its pre-eminence in foreign exchange, debt capital markets, loans, advisory, structured products and research.

Algeria

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