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The right mix of product, people and technology is critical for the financial sector and the customer's it serves. The consequences of failure, whether data breach or ethical disaster are potentially catastrophic.
We help financial organisations focus on what really matters with a strategy that supercharges customer experience and retention whilst providing regulatory compliance and secure operating models.
Our years of financial brand expertise alongside a breadth of cross sector experience spanning government, retail, finance, health, and utilities support the discovery, design, creation and delivery of digital services that are secure by design, accessible, architected for sustainability and deliver competitive advantage.
Our experienced financial services team members & associates have a proven track record with major sector brands
Create a compelling reason for change & the strategy to support it
Optimise your operating models to maximise value delivery
Align the eco-system in which teams & tech fit to improve outcomes
Build ownership, accountability & continuous improvement
Maintaining high levels of resiliency to withstand ongoing change, shock and disruption is imperative for all Financial Services organisations. Major events including the 2008
financial crisis, and the Covid-19 global health crisis have bought financial and operational resilience up the agenda.
Unpredictable events such as cybercrime, hacking, digital attacks, failing infrastructure,
natural disasters and climate change have risen in recent years. These are risk factors
that can significantly impact the ability of an FS organisation to provide critical business
services and these are exacerbated by the fact that many organisations have legacy core banking and IT systems. Consequently,
effective operational and technological resilience are key to maintaining core banking
services through or despite of a disruption.
It is vital that organisations remain resilient in the presence of unrelenting change,
threat of disruptions and ubiquitous digital transformation.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Banks are now emerging as major force in reaching the UN’s SDGs, with strong commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities.
Although banking is not considered a polluting industry, the current scale of operations has considerably increased the carbon footprint of banks due to their massive use of energy, high paper wastage and lack of green buildings. This has led to sustainable banking (green or ethical banking), a relatively new initiative that seeks to balance economic growth with environmental and social responsibility including offsetting. The focus is an additional agenda towards protecting the environment and conserving natural resources. By integrating sustainability into their core operations, banks play a crucial role in driving positive change and reducing the carbon footprint from banking activities.
We can help Financial Services organisations reach their sustainability goals by adopting technology and products which result in substantial reduction of their carbon footprint as well as develop a sustainable business, for example by:
There is so much to know about every customer - needs, wants, preferences, behaviours,
interactions, buying habits, past purchases, etc. Customer identity data, engagement data, behavioural data and attitudinal data are some of the most valuable data held by Financial Services organisations as when it comes to building customer value, providing
better customer experience and improving efficiency - customer insight is the ultimate
power.
One of the biggest challenges today is that Financial Services organisations use many
systems to hold customer data, systems such as e-mail, analytics, CRM, e-commerce and
social sites. Largely, these systems operate in silos and don’t pass data back and forth providing an incomplete picture.
With so many different types of customer data to collect, methods of collecting data and systems to store and analyse data, organisations constantly need to elevate their Customer Data &
Analytics capability by connecting their systems, evolving their data management processes and upskilling their staff to take advantage of new and existing data technologies.
Another big challenge faced by Financial Services organisations is balancing
personalisation with data privacy. On one hand, the information held on customers enables organisations to create more individualised customer experiences and interactions. On another, data privacy regulations protect customer data from unethical use. Balancing
personalisation and consumer privacy is key for trust.
With exciting new developments on the horizon such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine
Learning (ML) tailored experiences can meet the unique needs and preferences of their customers.
Advanced analytics and data visualisation tools are also trending due to their ability to
provide valuable insights into customer behaviour and preferences. These tools will increase in use driven by a desire to stand out from the competition and maximise efficiency. Advancements in AL, ML, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), cloud-based analytics and predictive analytics.
We can help Financial Services organisations evolve their Data and Analytics
capability by:
Everyone can be vulnerable at different points in their lives. That vulnerability can be so wide ranging and driven by factors that could include:
In vulnerable circumstances, people’s financial circumstances and a sense of wellbeing can often change rather abruptly. As a result, vulnerable customers may make poor financial decisions or mistakes that could have detrimental long-term effects. To empathise and achieve better outcomes for vulnerable customers, Financial Services organisations are building tailored products and solutions and embedding fair treatment of vulnerable customers in their culture, people, policies and processes.
We can support you to provide stand-out user experience and even better outcomes for vulnerable customers by:
The need to manage the cost of existing and new technology is a common challenge across all industries, but comes with significant burden for those operating in complex, highly regulated sectors such as Financial Services. Our customers typically wish to prioritise investment in technology creating differentiating experiences, but their technology spend (which is becoming increasingly squeezed) is typically disproportionately needed to manage business as usual, supporting large legacy ecosystems and in turn slows the delivery of new digital products and services. Organisations also face increasing diversity and complexity in technology options available, the skills & competencies needed to effectively leverage that technology and the range of delivery partners available to help with mainstream, emerging and niche technology.
CX in Financial Services refers to the quality of customers’ experiences and interactions with their FS provider. Every interaction impacts the customer’s perception of a brand and consequently, their loyalty to that brand. Emotionally charged interactions, when customers are reaching out to their FS provider at critical moments in their lives, often have the greatest influence on customer satisfaction. However routine interactions are just as important in shaping positive and lasting customer experiences.
According to Zendesk’s Customer Experience Trends Report 2023, customers have some
common expectations for the digital banking experience with 72% of customers wanting immediate service, 62% wanting personalise recommendations, and 70% of customers expecting anyone they interact with to have full context of their enquiry..
We can organisations that are falling behind to keep up with the fast, personalised, and seamless digital experiences that customers desire by providing support with:
An experienced digital product manager with over 20 experience in financial services and highly regulated environments.
Steve has leadership experience in many complex transformation programmes and agile fast-paced product development organisations, driving significant commercial value and positive outcomes across the full customer relationship life-cycle.
Highly engaging and motivating, Steve has built and developed many high-performing product teams, establishing new organisational operating models, collaborative ways of working and growth mind-set focussed upon value creation.
Three-time winner of the IFS award for innovation in Financial Services.
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Maya is an Enterprise Architect with experience in supporting transformation across the enterprise. She has vast experience at developing business outcome roadmaps that support strategic ambitions and the target business architectures that guide the realisation of these outcomes.
She is passionate about architecting based on business capability, i.e. the combination of people, process, information and technology that come together to provide the business with the ability to operate and achieve its desired outcomes. She is thorough and diligent and believe is constantly learning and adapting to be successful.
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A Business and Enterprise Architect with over 20 years experience in the Global Financial Services industry embedding Business Architecture disciplines that fully connect the business services offered to customers, to the Value Streams, processes and technology architectures that support them.
Expertise from working in a heavily regulated environment to ensure that Operational Resilience of services can be demonstrated through an understanding of process linked to risks and controls.
Improving Product Originations and Customer Onboarding journeys by evaluating, decoupling and integrating digital capabilities to remove customer friction.
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