On average marketing can reduce its spend by 35% and either become a hero function by doing more with less or using what it has to generate higher results. The key is cutting the wasted budget. Nearly every single marketing department can reduce wasted time and spend within the next 3 months if it really … Continue reading “Be the best marketing department. Cut out the ineffective.”
As Open Banking takes a greater hold of the Financial Services marketplace, large financial institutions are having to increasingly adopt new technology and innovate. APIs (Application Programming Interface) allow banks to connect with other digitally enabled organisations. Large financial institutions are now improving the services and products they can deliver by using APIs to grow … Continue reading “APIs & Partnership Ecosystem. Another challenge for banks.”
Most large financial institutions are having to compete with new challengers in the banking world but increasingly regulation is forcing the financial services marketplace to open up. The latest EU legislation is PSD2 (Second Payment Services Directive), which forces banks to open up their vast data siloes to third parties. The fear for many of … Continue reading “The big PSD2 challenge for global banking institutions”
All Financial Institutions are experiencing increased scrutiny due to new regulations. One of the leading challenges now faced by banks is therefore compliance as they have to keep up with continual change to regulation. On average, most financial institutions are spending around 4% of their total revenue on managing compliance – this is compounded by … Continue reading “The challenge of compliance in the global financial services industry”
For many traditional financial institutions they have never had to truly compete. There used to be a small number of players with a huge market audience. This is no longer the case – technology has enabled challengers. Challenger banks such as Monzo and Atom, are digitally enabled organisations which can supply customers with improved CX, … Continue reading “The challenge of digital transformation in the global financial services industry”
In the recent report, ‘Thinking like a Financial Institution’, we examine the main challenges faced by Financial Institutions in the technology-enhanced 21st century. One of the main challenges sited in the report is regulation, specifically Open Banking/PSD2 – a regulation forcing Financial Institutions to open up their data systems to third parties. This blog will … Continue reading “One month on from the launch of PSD2, who are the winners?”
