financial services

Forrester has recently kicked off some new research focusing on services and companies that make financial decisions and take action on behalf of consumers. You can take a very short survey on this topic here. I’m psyched to present here our first FORR/3 video episode on this topic (see below)! In it, Oliwia Berdak and […]

Financial services in Asia Pacific are in the middle of a radical departure from the past. Senior Analyst Zhi-Ying Barry joins to explain how the convergence of disparate forces are challenging the very nature of a financial services firm.

Now is the time for the retail financial services industry to take a much more proactive, holistic approach to customers’ financial well-being.

Yesterday, Temenos announced its acquisition of US vendor Kony. Both Kony and Temenos are Leaders in the recent “The Forrester Wave™: Digital Banking Engagement Platforms, Q3 2019.” This acquisition adds Kony Quantum, a low-code development platform, and Kony DBX to Temenos’ digital front-end product portfolio. Kony DBX is a digital banking engagement platform (DBEP), a […]

Weigh in on how financial advice will change over the next 5-10 years.

Chinese banks are vying to offer consumers the best possible mobile experience. We break down what's working and where there's room for improvement.

As leaders in the FS sector increasingly embrace customer-centric strategies, they will have to credibly connect the customer story to the money story. Otherwise, the legitimacy of often-heard CX slogans and promises can be easily challenged.

The closure of Finn does bring up some important lessons for other digital bank startups or digital offshoots of the major bank brands.

In this episode of our video blog series FORR in 3, Vijay Raghavan and I discuss the challenges of robo-advice, some of the latest failures in this space, and what this means for a technology market that has seen over $2 billion of investment in the last decade. For more insights, Forrester clients can check […]

If you’re a fan of the old TV show “Happy Days,” you know Fonzie and Potsie. If you don’t know the show, here’s a quick sum-up of the two characters: Both were good dudes, but while one (Potsie) managed to, at best, fit in with the crowd, the other (Fonzie, also known as “The Fonz”) […]

I have recently released a new report looking at the second phase of the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and its security requirements along with my colleagues Jacob Morgan and Andras Cser. Banks and financial institutions are currently hard at work building APIs and testing their Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) solutions. Banks need to comply with […]

Customers have come to expect easy, effective, and contextually relevant mobile banking experiences. Bolting a shiny new user interface on top of a patchwork of legacy systems won’t cut it anymore.

On April 18th, T-Mobile officially launched its T-Mobile MONEY checking account, after a soft launch late last year. This is not the first time we’ve seen a telecommunications firm enter the banking space – it’s already been happening for years in Europe and Asia, with large telcos such as Orange and KDDI. And this isn’t T-mobile’s first foray into banking either. So should banks be worried? Watch below to learn more.

Large corporates and startups seems like a match made in heaven. The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave. And startups bring speed and agility and can help enterprises experiment with emerging technologies and business models. There’s even a whole industry of matchmakers — platforms and accelerators that aim to […]

[This post was coauthored by my colleague, Christian Austin.] Of the 16 technology markets Forrester monitors for VC funding trends, the $2.1B raised by regulatory technology (RegTech) ranked 14th in 2018. As such, you’d be forgiven for overlooking a category that doesn’t evoke many buzzwords, hasn’t raised the splashy capital of several other markets, and […]

A New Era, A New Digital Japan? On May 1, Japan will get a new emperor, and a new era — Reiwa — will begin. The transition is largely symbolic, as the emperor’s role is ceremonial, but the coming of the Reiwa era also marks the end of the Heisei era, sometimes known as “the […]

With broker reforms at a standstill, Australian financial services firms must step up and take responsibility by putting customer interests first. Create the right culture, be more transparent, and build tools to protect vulnerable customers.

Wealth management firms are leveraging emerging tech to create differentiated, valuable investor experiences. Read how.

Apple and Goldman Sachs are partnering to deliver a new credit card. The industry seems to be quick to dismiss the partnership . . . but there’s an awful lot more at stake here than credit card rewards.