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Going Digital

Digital transformation has changed the world. The ubiquity of the Internet and the extremely rapid expansion of increasingly versatile smartphones have disrupted the way consumers interact with several industries. From entertainment to the car industry, almost no sector of the economy has been left out of the digitalization wave. Financial services are not an exception. The way customers interact with banks and insurance companies has changed: according to Eurostat and The Financial Brand, as much as 40% of banking customers in the EU are active online banking users. That number rises to 61% in the US. We expect this number to rise to 83%-89% in the EU by 2020. In this article, Alejandro Gonzalez and Pedro Fernández from Arthur D. Little, examine how financial institutions can implement technologically-inspired strategies.

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Digital transformation has changed the world. The ubiquity of the Internet and the extremely rapid expansion of increasingly versatile smartphones have disrupted the way consumers interact with several industries. From entertainment to the car industry, almost no sector of the economy has been left out of the digitalization wave. Financial services are not an exception. The way customers interact with banks and insurance companies has changed: according to Eurostat and The Financial Brand, as much as 40% of banking customers in the EU are active online banking users. That number rises to 61% in the US. We expect this number to rise to 83%-89% in the EU by 2020. In this article, Alejandro Gonzalez and Pedro Fernández from Arthur D. Little, examine how financial institutions can implement technologically-inspired strategies.