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Barrow Hanley: Insights from a Global Value Investing Leader
Cory Martin, CEO of Barrow Hanley Global Investors, reflects on the firm’s growth, its value investing philosophy, and how technology and ESG considerations are shaping the future of asset management. Cory Martin’s Journey at Barrow Hanley As the CEO of Barrow
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Small is Beautiful in Banking: Little US Institutions Form a Financial Backbone
Yerbol Orynbayev, former Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and World Bank governor, reports for CFI.co on the American banking sector. In the US, there are some 4,001 community banks and 134 regional ones. The majority of the country’s banking system
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Supporting African Businesses: A Focus on Sustainability and Close Customer Relationships
The Access Bank UK Ltd is making significant strides with its international expansion – and there are good reasons for that… The Access Bank UK Ltd provides trade finance, commercial banking, private banking and asset management products and services for
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Mexico’s First Woman President is Rock Steady
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s ascent from academia to the National Palace is anything but flash-in-the-pan. When Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo assumes high office as President of Mexico on October 1, she will be the first woman to take on the role. She
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Managing Popular Banking and Practising Financial Inclusion? Challenges Accepted!
Mexico’s Banco Azteca has risen to the top thanks to its inclusive policies — and astute direction from its chairman. Alejandro Valenzuela’s understanding of the banking industry has substantially evolved over his nine years at the helm of Mexico’s Banco
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It’s Not All in the Mind — but Is It About the Sex and Gender, too?
Group upgrades its efforts to study the role that gender plays in women’s mental and physical health. When the Women’s Brain Project transformed into the Women’s Brain Foundation in March, it morphed from its seven-year provisional status into the permanent
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João Pedro Oliveira e Costa: Banco BPI’s Compassionate Touch
The CEO of the Portuguese bank, João Pedro Oliveira e Costa, puts human values at the centre of all operations — but values AI’s contribution, too. A company, according to the Banco BPI philosophy, is like a person, with its
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The Man Driving the Rio Tinto Bus: Meet Jakob Stausholm
Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm is steering this mining giant as it rolls towards sustainability. Since taking over as CEO in January 2021, Stausholm has led the company through hills and valleys of transition, aiming always for environmental responsibility,
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Paolo Sironi, IBM: Regenerating Banking via Bots — AI Has Our Full Attention
Financial services specialists — like professionals in so many sectors — are embracing the radical technology, to great effect… Generative AI has seized the world’s attention like no technology before it. Executives are either dazzled by bright futures or dismayed
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World Bank: How to Accelerate Growth and Progress in Developing Economies
Amid a barrage of shocks during the past four years, the global economy has proved to be surprisingly resilient. Major economies are emerging mostly unscathed after the fastest rise in interest rates in 40 years—without the usual scars of steep
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