Global Banking news and trends

Scotiabank Names Travis Machen to Head Global Markets Unit
Personnel // April 30, 2024

Canada’s Scotiabank has a new CEO for its global banking and markets (GBM) business. Travis Machen, who joins the bank from Morgan Stanley, is set to take on his new position on May 6, Scotiabank announced in a Monday (April 29) news release. “In this role, Mr. Machen will...

JPMorgan Chase Combines 3 Lines of Business Under Global Banking
Personnel // April 04, 2024

JPMorgan Chase has announced a new organizational structure for its Global Banking (GB) business. The GB business now brings together the bank’s Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking lines, according to a memo provided to PYMNTS Thursday (April 4) by JPMorgan Chase. “Our new GB franchise strengthens...

Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds
Digital Banking // September 11, 2019

Kill the check. Shutter the branch. Make that leather wallet a mobile one, wielded on smartphones. The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the...

Trade Finance Rejection Rates Accelerate
B2B Payments // April 22, 2019

The massive global trade finance gap is the topic of conversation for many banks and FinTech firms looking to strengthen their position in the market. Banks have the customer and financial institution (FI) relationships needed to facilitate trade finance, while FinTech firms have the technology...

Quick Reads
HSBC Launches Platform for Managing Domestic and International Business Payments

November 26, 2024
HSBC has launched a platform for managing domestic and international business payments. The new Smart Transact provides a single platform that lets businesses manage their transactions and access a current account, domestic and cross-border payment capability and the HSBCnet global banking platform, the bank said in a Tuesday (Nov. 26) press release emailed to PYMNTS. […]

Scotiabank Names Travis Machen to Head Global Markets Unit

April 30, 2024
Canada’s Scotiabank has a new CEO for its global banking and markets (GBM) business. Travis Machen, who joins the bank from Morgan Stanley, is set to take on his new position on May...

JPMorgan Chase Combines 3 Lines of Business Under Global Banking

April 04, 2024
JPMorgan Chase has announced a new organizational structure for its Global Banking (GB) business. The GB business now brings together the bank’s Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking lines, according to a...

Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank Confirm Merger Talks

March 18, 2019
Deutsche Bank confirmed on Sunday (March 17) that it’s in talks with Commerzbank about a deal. In a memo from Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Christian Sewing, he said that — given...