Dr José Darío Uribe Escobar
Governor, Banco de la Republica de Colombia

The Banker heralds the world’s best central bank governors who have stuck to their guns when under fire, whether it be encouraging diversification, controlling inflation or fighting off the governmental propensity for meddling.

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is determined to get his country into the EU despite nay-sayers on all sides. He talks to Karina Robinson.

Strong business profit performance lies behind the upswing in the US economy, writes Yusuke Horiguchi.

This may be the year that the US pendulum swings away from excessive regulation towards balanced principles.

Despite China opening up banking to foreigners, incomers will face difficult challenges to make an impact on such a gargantuan market.

Crèdit Andorrà
Crèdit Andorrà has had a rewarding year. Its consolidation strategy in the personal, private and commercial banking divisions and the increased product offering resulted in a profit growth of more than 40%, breaking a sequence of flat profits in the previous two years.

Measures to open India’s banking market to global competition are under attack from foreign banks for being too slow, and from state bank employees for being too rapid and drastic. Michael Imeson reports.

Jacqueline Guichelaar, general manager, technology operations, National Australia Group, tells Dan Barnes of the importance of marrying technology and business decision making.

Stephen Timewell discovers how the Belgian bank improved the efficiency, productivity and client-facing time of its sales network.