Commercial banking top trends in 2023
The world of commercial banking faces uncertainty today. As a result, it is difficult to make confident decisions about the medium-to-long term. However, Accenture believes commercial banks have an op...
While unfortunate, the rising tide of fraud is not necessarily surprising. Financial criminals have been targeting ...
Banks and other incumbent payment players face an intriguing paradox right now. They must innovate to stay relevant, ...
There’s a lot of buzz about next-gen payments rails globally, but where does North America stand when it comes to ...
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the tempo of change in consumer behaviors and expectations. Payments, ...
The payments industry has undergone unprecedented transformation in recent times given the global pandemic, ...
Telecom firms play a critical role in connecting people: 85% of the US population use smartphones today, and the ...
As the 21st century began, banks revolutionized bill payments by introducing online bill pay. Customers could finally ...
If there’s one thing the payments industry has learned to expect over the last decade, it’s the unexpected. Even before ...
Digital payments are gaining popularity as cash usage declines around the world. While card payments still dominate in ...
This blog is based on my keynote presentation at the 2021 Payments Canada SUMMIT Payments leaders probably feel like ...
The world of commercial banking faces uncertainty today. As a result, it is difficult to make confident decisions about the medium-to-long term. However, Accenture believes commercial banks have an op...
Disclaimer: ChatGPT did not write our post, but we did ask it for title suggestions and picked our favorite one. Thanks, generative AI! We’re at an inflection point. Every day, we see how artificial i...
The pace of change is not slowing down. Customers’ expectations have radically changed, and they expect much more from their banking products and services than ever before. To maintain relevance, bank...
ISO 20022 is probably the biggest payments change of the last 30 years—if not more. It’s also no longer news. The industry has known for years that it’s coming. In fact, some institutions began thei...
A recent Accenture survey found that embedded finance offerings to small and medium-sized enterprises could increase global bank revenues by as much as US$92 billion by 2025. Embedded finance offers b...
As Yogi Berra once famously said, there is no difference, in theory, between theory and practice— but in practice, there is. That’s certainly true for tech transformation projects at banks. Most ban...
Banks face a trust paradox. While customers trust banks with their money, only 19% of them say they are interested in receiving advice from a bank. And the more digital banks become, the less connecte...
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the tempo of change in consumer behaviors and expectations. Payments, characteristically, is at the forefront of the change. In “Payments Gets Personal—Strategies to St...
As consumers experience economic turbulence due to inflation and rising interest rates, they want to be able to pay anywhere, anytime, anyhow. For banks to stay ahead of an increasingly complex paymen...
Having pulled through the Covid pandemic, the unravelling of international supply chains and a global energy crunch, commercial banks must now grapple with a spike in interest rates and the collapse o...