Insights on Financial Services
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Global Insurance Report 2025: The pursuit of growth
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Finding profitable growth is an imperative for the world’s personal and commercial property and casualty insurers, while life carriers must adjust to changing consumer needs.
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Global Banking Annual Review 2024: Attaining escape velocity
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In coming years, the “management quotient” will spell the difference between industry leaders and laggards.
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Global payments in 2024: Simpler interfaces, complex reality
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Global payments are becoming simpler for users, but complexity keeps growing behind the scenes. This year’s report explores this paradox and the options for providers.
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Global Insurance Report 2025: Finding profitable personal lines growth
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The personal property and casualty insurance industry grew in 2023, fueled by rate increases in developed markets. The opportunity now is to expand coverage to new markets and sectors.
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Global Insurance Report 2025: Searching for profitable growth in commercial lines
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Profitable growth is increasingly hard to find. Commercial property and casualty insurers need to be deliberate about where and how they compete.
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Global Insurance Report 2025: Growth and relevance in life and beyond
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There are bright spots for growth in global life, retirement, and health insurance. But to combat stagnant demand, the industry needs to find new sources of growth beyond its core products.
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How banks can supercharge technology speed and productivity
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Financial institutions can unlock the productivity of their software engineering teams to significantly boost tech innovation without increasing IT budgets.
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State of consumer digital payments in 2024
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Increased digital adoption and evolving channel preferences indicate a need for payment providers to seek ways to engage consumers earlier in the shopping journey.
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Unlocking value from technology in banking: An investor lens
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Investors, boards, and management teams are looking for banks to demonstrate differential value from technology. Our research provides a framework to link technology investments to value creation.
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Investing in insurance: The value imperative
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Private investment in insurance is rising as deal volumes and value for the global private equity industry contract. For the bet to pay off, we suggest three ways of generating operational value.
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The state of retail banking: Profitability and growth in the era of digital and AI
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As the global macroeconomic environment remains uncertain, retail banks should focus on the fundamentals of customer primacy and margin protection while embracing digital technologies and gen AI.
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Featured publications
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Scaling gen AI in banking: Choosing the best operating model
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Generative AI is transforming financial services, offering opportunities for efficiency and innovation. As banks race to deploy...
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Capturing the full value of generative AI in banking
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Setting up generative AI pilots is easy; scaling them to capture material value is hard. A recipe for success is emerging.
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Been there, doing that: How corporate and investment banks are tackling gen AI
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Wholesale banks have vast expertise in traditional AI. It’s a sound investment that is paying off again as generative AI...