Boston Consulting Group - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement/startups

African fintech market set for explosive growth

Global fintech is entering a new era of maturity and momentum. According to a new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and QED Investors, Fintech’s Next Chapter: Scaled Winners and Emerging Disruptors, the sector has emerged from a tough funding environment stronger, more disciplined, and with greater growth prospects than ever.

21 August 2025

News/ai

Fintech sector braced for fresh wave of disruption as AI changes the game

As artificial intelligence reshapes the business landscape, fintechs stand poised to usher in a fresh wave of disruption as the industry emerges from a prolonged slump.

07 July 2025

News/startups

Fintechs enter new stage of profitability - report

The global fintech has enetered a new chapter defined by a rise in profitability and the emergence of scaled fintech and an "intensified focus on profitable growth".

02 June 2025

News/ai

Fewer than 1 in 4 banks ready for AI era - report

A vast majority of banks are unprepared for the advent of artificial intelligence, according to recently published research

21 May 2025

Company announcement/payments

Adyen and BCG estimate $185 billion embedded finance opportunity for SaaS platform

Adyen, the financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has today launched a new report with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) which reveals a game-changing $185 billion market opportunity for SaaS platforms, a substantial 25% increase since 2022.

28 October 2024

Company announcement/sustainable

Doconomy and BCG form climate action partnership

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, has announced a new strategic partnership with Doconomy, a leading provider in climate technology, aimed at supporting financial institutions in the development of their sustainability agendas.

14 September 2023

Company announcement/inclusion

Spice Money and Boston Consulting Group to build platform for rural population

Spice Money (subsidiary of DiGiSPICE Technologies), India’s leading rural fintech that is revolutionizing the way Bharat banks, today announced its strategic partnership with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading global consulting firm.

10 May 2023

Company announcement/retail

Innovate Finance and BCG publish new report on open finance

Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, in partnership with professional services firm BCG, has released a new report with key recommendations for the UK to unlock the full potential of Open Finance.

06 March 2023

News/retail

Money 20/20 EU: Take caution with hyper-expansion

Hyper-personalisation is receiving significant attention from financial services at present. Yet expansion into new niches which businesses haven’t fully understood poses new risks, and, as explored by Money 20/20 Europe’s panel session, ‘Hyper-personalisation in a data-driven world', this can have severe impacts across an entire business model.

10 June 2022

Company announcement/crypto

Central bank digitial currencies - a global capital markets perspective

Over 70% of central banks have begun exploring the possibility of introducing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

22 February 2022

News/regulation

WEF: Little market-wide agreement on DLT use in capital markets

A report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that while distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers the potential for significant market-wide transformation, market participants are still far from adopting this technology at scale at a market-wide level.

06 May 2021

News/sustainable

AFME: ‘Financial materiality is not sustainable finance’s end goal’

In conversation with Richard Peers for Finextra TV, Tonia Plakhotniuk, associate director, policy (sustainable finance & financial reporting) at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) traverses a number of predications we can expect to see around sustainable finance in 2021.

25 January 2021