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Foundations for continuously improving customer experience

Like many industries pursuing innovation, banking and financial services often gravitate to hot topics such as decentralised and sustainable finance, super apps, or some aspect of the metaverse. While new technologies and initiatives do have the potential to transform the landscape of the industry, sometimes customers’ day-to-day requirements end ...

11 August 2022 /retail Analytics in Banking

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To exploit hyperautomation, banks must lay the right foundations

With a predicted global addressable market of nearly $600 billion in 2022, hyperautomation (HA) is a key focus for many industry transformation initiatives. In this article, I’ll lay out in layman’s terms what hyperautomation is, why it matters and what foundations firms should establish to ensure the delivery of successful hyperautomation initi...

06 July 2022 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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Opportunities to manage technical debt within financial services firms

In a previous blog article, I discussed how the judicious adoption and management of technical debt was a potential competitive differentiator and a key strategic business imperative for financial services firms. In contrast, with technical debt consuming 41% of enterprise IT budgets, for some firms an ignorance of technical debt may pose an exis...

29 June 2022 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Financial firms must approach digital transformation with technical debt in mind

Technical debt is a “ball & chain” for many financial firms - a natural consequence of getting things done quickly instead getting things done well. However, regarding technical debt simply as a “thing” is a limiting factor for firms and misses vital nuances of this concept. In this article, we’ll re-visit the concept of technical debt, and sug...

21 March 2022 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Banking on context to unlock opportunity in financial services

The potential emergence from the Covid pandemic will require significant adjustment to challenging macro-economic conditions. In 2022, growth is unlikely to return to levels forecasted pre-pandemic. But the greatest challenge for financial services firms will be to maintain and enhance relationships with customers trying to adapt to their “new no...

04 February 2022 /covid-19 Banking Architecture

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