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Diederick Van Thiel

Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED
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The embedded finance transformation: Think big! Think smart! Be bold! And do it!

CEO’s: what a stretch! The C-level job is more demanding than ever before. On one hand smart decision-making is pushed by the revolutionizing digital experience needs of younger generations. In my last blog on embedded finance, I wrote that nowadays, people are online almost continually, searching for products and solutions, watching videos on Ins...

14 April 2022 /retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

COOL! REVOLUTIONIZE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE FOR EMBEDDED FINANCE

The Experience age transformation of personal finance The age of experience is deeply transforming markets and will do so even more. More than a decade ago, when I was Chief Marketing Officer at ING, I wrote my book ‘Got EQ? Cool!’ to support my fellow CMO’s with practical approaches to win the hearts and minds of their customers. The book reached...

25 March 2022 /payments /retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Game-changers: Harnessing the power of alternative data

The tied-on-points World Championship finale This weekend Verstappen and Hamilton will battle head-to-head for the formula one World Championship. It’s going to be a battle on team strategy, car, and driver performance. A battle fuelled with smart big data strategies and zillions of data from sensors. Formula One is one of the most competitive and...

10 December 2021 /cloud /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Sustainable Game Changers with balls

Turning the tide Between 1995 and 2010 I climbed the corporate ladder into the multi-national board room. I was a trained Dutch economist and former navy seal that rigorously drove growth for the brands that employed me, with creativity, innovation power and can-do mentality as my strong weapons. I was a product of the post war profitable growth l...

26 November 2021 /sustainable Innovation in Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Game Changers for SME Banking

What makes SME lending so hot these days? There is a lot of rumour around the prospective growth of the global SME lending market. It represents 90% of businesses and 50% of employment worldwide. World Bank calculations furthermore indicate that 600 million jobs will be needed towards 2030 to absorb the growing global workforce, which makes SME de...

12 November 2021 /retail /inclusion Digital Bank Transformation

Diederick Van Thiel

Game Changers for Next Gen Banking

If personal is the name of the next gen banking game.. Financial marketers must reach out now or their window of opportunity will slam shut forever. All strategic players have come to the realization that next gen banking customers are their primary profit pool as of 2025. PWC research foresees a 42% increase of cashless payments towards 2025. The...

29 October 2021 /retail /sustainable Digital Bank Transformation

Diederick Van Thiel

EAT OR BE EATEN: THIS IS THE POST-COVID CHAMPION IN BANKING!

Looking at the 2020 strategic banking game to detect the winners! The battle on the banking customer has become intense. Therefore, I researched the underlying competencies that drive current and future success in banking. Since September 11th, 2020, I have written a series of 5 blogs that illuminate banks’ differentiation in cost/income strategy,...

30 November 2020 /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Diederick Van Thiel

Win or lose? Winning banks break through the Big Tech Nash equilibrium.

In today’s ever-changing business landscape, where companies need to try and stay ahead of their competition, innovation should be one of the most important focus areas. According to strategy consultant BCG, innovation indeed is a top-three management priority for almost two-thirds of companies. This is however the lowest level since the financial...

09 November 2020 /retail /covid-19 Innovation in Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

The post COVID war has started: the leading group of digital banks against Big tech and Fintech

Digital sales, a dangerous unseized opportunity for banks For banks, digital sales are a crucial new benchmark—and a logical next step in the race to digitization. For every time that customers visit a branch, customers access their banking apps between 50 and 80 times. And this number doesn’t take into account visits to banks’ websites, this make...

27 October 2020 /retail /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Diederick Van Thiel

Survival of the fittest: Digital advice, the strategic cost - income play

COVID-19 flushes away traditional banking Last week at premier financial services event SIBOS (https://www.sibos.com) a series of C-level banking executives shared their immersive visions on the post COVID growth of banks. “How will the pace of technological change push digitalization forward and how will the rise in consumer demand for new digita...

13 October 2020 /retail /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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