Finance Updates – Page 22 – Finance Updates

Kotak’s Trade Finance Push: Megha Chopra Leads India’s Mid-Market Surge

Asia Firms Depository Credit Intermediation

Kotak Mahindra Bank created a new Head of Tra...

Chopra brings 24+ years in trade, working cap...

Kotak is targeting fast-growing mid-market an...

Execution will hinge on digital product rollo...

Why Bank Mandiri Was Named Indonesia’s Best CIW Bank in 2025

Asia Firms Depository Credit Intermediation

Bank Mandiri was named Indonesia’s Best Corpo...

Kopra by Mandiri drove strong institutional t...

Corporate and investment lending expanded rap...

Despite wholesale momentum and a high corpora...

How Banks Can Boost Transaction Banking Profits by 30–50% Through AI & CX Innovation

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Global transaction banking generated about US...

McKinsey estimates a six-playbook transformat...

The biggest levers are customer-experience re...

Agentic AI is a cross-cutting accelerator for...

Q3 2025 Earnings Surge: Manufacturing Margins Outpace Retail Profit Struggles

Americas Markets Public Administration

Q3 2025 manufacturing after-tax profits rose ...

Large retail corporations (assets ≥$50M) post...

Large retail sales increased to $1,097.8B (+$...

Overall, the QFR suggests manufacturing margi...

CAI Software & Print ePS Merge: Boosting Manufacturing ERP & Graphic Communications

Global M&A Software Publishers

CAI Software and Print ePS completed a merger...

The combined business will operate three divi...

Brent Pietrzak was named CEO and Cort Townsen...

The company has 800+ employees across North A...

GE Vernova Sells Proficy Software to TPG for $600M to Sharpen Grid Software Focus

Americas M&A Software Publishers

GE Vernova agreed to sell its Proficy manufac...

Proficy represents about 20% of GE Vernova’s ...

GE Vernova plans to reinvest proceeds into it...

The deal is expected to close in the first ha...

How Sages Intelligence Is Scaling Industrial Robotics with Embodied AI and Profitable Global Expansion

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Shanghai-based Sages Intelligence (founded 20...

Proceeds will fund R&D (~40%), overseas expan...

Sages sells mobile and multi-arm industrial r...

Already profitable, it ships about 1,000 unit...

Fifth Third-Comerica Deal: Stakes, Risks & Financial Impacts for Regional Banks

Americas M&A Depository Credit Intermediation

On Jan. 6, 2026, Fifth Third and Comerica sha...

The deal would create the ninth-largest U.S. ...

Management projects about $850M of annual cos...

Activist HoldCo opposes the terms and is suin...

Crypto Gambling Surges but Faces Major Consumer, Regulatory & Investment Risks

Global Risk Gambling Industries

The article is largely promotional, highlight...

The crypto casino market is growing rapidly, ...

Deposit volume is concentrated among a few op...

High growth is offset by significant consumer...

How Hedera’s Tokenization Tools are Unlocking Compliant DeFi Derivatives

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

DeFi derivatives are scaling toward instituti...

Hedera is shipping compliance-oriented tokeni...

Tightening rules (MiCA, SEC, AML/KYC, stablec...

Key open issues are liquidity depth, legal en...