Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Brand strategy meets the future of banking

02 Nov 2022

Banks and banking are facing an existential crisis. Brands that represent security, reliability, and dependability are being elbowed aside by cool, digital upstarts. Despite reputations built over hundreds of years, traditional banks are under threat from businesses launched with not much more than conviction and capital. The pace of change in ban...

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Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

UK Banks Must Expedite Plans to Address ESG Goals or Face Increasing Investor Activism

12 May 2022

Economic, social, and environmental factors increasingly govern the manner in which we live and work. In 2017, the World Bank had reported that almost 31 percent of the adult population worldwide were unbanked – these 1.7 billion adults did not have an account at a financial institution or through a mobile money provider. Three years later, the CO...

CBDC: Powering the future of money in the digital era

25 Oct 2022

This is an excerpt from Finextra’s report, 'The Future of Digital Banking North America 2023'. The last couple of years have witnessed a revolution in digital currencies globally. Rapid advancements in technology and decline in cash transactions, particularly through the pandemic, have further fuelled their rise. A report by UNCTAD in 2021 indicat...