Barclays

A global focus is no longer a nice-to-have. Every deal requires a worldwide lens—crucial with $50 billion worth of them projected over the next 12 months.

The Providence, Rhode Island-based bank has hired Aunoy Banerjee as its next CFO, a role that will be vacated by State Street hire John Woods. Banerjee is currently the CFO of Barclays Bank PLC.

The country's central bank cited geopolitical uncertainty and the increased reliance on digital payments as a reason to focus on offline payments as a backup. Also, a look at U.K. bank outages and other news in American Banker's global payments and fintech roundup.

An IT problem at the bank left thousands of customers locked out of their accounts for several days.

The payment company is using its Xoom transfer app to bring PYUSD to a broader market; while Barclays is reportedly in talks with Brookfield Asset Management to sell a portion of its payments business. That and more in our global payments news roundup.

The investment banking giant is selling its General Motors credit card portfolio to Barclays, which is looking to grow and diversify its U.S. cards business. It's part of Goldman's retreat from consumer banking.

Graper was promoted to her current role as  managing director and global co-head of debt capital markets last year.

Since she was elevated to her current role roughly 18 months ago, Mariniello has continued to balance emerging opportunities with implementing long-term growth initiatives.

Regulators in two countries are strengthening rules requiring banks and merchants to accept paper, while a majority of Canadian payments are now tap to pay.

The card brand adds to partnerships that enable data sharing and cross-selling; the U.K. bank is lowering fees based on clients meeting metrics for sustainability; and more.