How should businesses view these global trends and events? How are behaviors and spending changing? In this report, Insider Intelligence analysts weigh in on the questions they’re being asked by both clients and the media about the shifting landscape in key areas like digital advertising, retail and ecommerce, and financial services.

Technology decision-makers within the banking industry will need to justify tech plans if spending growth is to remain steady.

Technology decision-makers within the banking industry will need to balance high tech spending with the potential for regulatory disruptors.

Technology decision-makers within the banking industry will need to balance high tech spending with the potential for competitive disruptors.

This second annual benchmark evaluates seven Canadian financial institutions across six feature categories and weights their scores according to the results of a survey of mobile banking users in Canada.

Neobank and Big Tech competition, rising mobile adoption, and new touchpoints like the metaverse are pushing banks to rethink their branch footprints. They must react to evolving consumer banking preferences so they can future-proof their branches.

The super app model is moving to the West and will upend how consumers interact with financial services. Banks must start preparing now to make the changing tide work to their advantage.

Competition from fintechs and consumer brands is compelling leading banks and technology providers to revise their strategies. These fintechs and brands are scaling and evolving rapidly on top of banking as a service (BaaS) and open banking infrastructure. We’ve spoken with executives at financial institutions, fintechs, and vendors about how to thrive in an ecosystem that’s reshaping financial services.

Banks face growing pressure from shareholders and customers to take more action on sustainability. While transitioning to a greener business model will be challenging, banks have a plethora of strategies to choose from.

Payments Ecosystem: This year will reveal how providers must adapt to lasting pandemic-driven digitization across payments channels, ranging from in-store retail to B2B ecommerce.

This inaugural study ranks eight leading premium travel credit cards offering 49 emerging features, weighted by demand from prospective customers.

This report explores what’s driving UK neobanks’ growth and how incumbents can defend their share of the digital bank account holder market.

As banking companies focus on meeting heightened consumer expectations for personalized experiences, 2022 may be another record-breaking year. These players will need to weigh partnerships with encroaching Big Tech competitors.

This fifth annual benchmark stacks up 23 US financial institutions against one another, evaluating their mobile app capabilities based on consumer demand for 42 emerging features.

This benchmark evaluates four US neobanks across seven categories and weights their scores according to the results from a survey of US mobile banking users. It highlights the most in-demand mobile banking features that an incumbent, fintech, or neobank can offer to attract, retain, or monetize users.

Though half of Gen Z hasn’t yet reached adulthood, it’s well on its way to becoming a financial juggernaut. Here’s an overview of this generation’s unique financial attitudes and behaviors.

In this report, we explore how digitization is reshaping the banking CMO’s role, responsibilities, and priorities through exclusive interviews with 10 banking industry CMOs in the US and Canada.

Over the past five years, neobanks have advanced on two fronts: user growth and richness of mobile functionality. But they’re still chasing profitability, launching new financial services offerings and reserving some of their most innovative features for paying customers. This second annual study stacks up the top four UK neobanks against one another, scoring their mobile app capabilities based on consumer demand for 48 emerging features.

This inaugural study ranks 10 leading cash-back credit cards (with no annual fee) by the degree at which they offer 49 emerging cash-back credit card features, weighted by how highly cash-back credit card prospects value those features.

Digital-only banks—and neobanks in particular—have emerged as potent threats to incumbents, and many disruptors that could further shake up the US banking market loom large. But incumbents can still secure digital account holders by adopting digital best practices championed by challengers.

This third annual study ranks the 10 largest UK banks and building societies by assets according to their mobile banking capabilities and how highly consumers value their offerings. We present detailed benchmarking data on the availability of 41 mobile features, selected based on their propensity to set financial institutions apart.

Through our exclusive interviews with heads of digital at 12 of the largest financial institutions and three top neobanks across the US, UK, and Canada, this report illuminates the biggest challenges and opportunities these executives are facing.

With $68 trillion in assets set to transfer to younger generations over the next 30 years, wealth managers who target high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) must adapt by using digital solutions to enhance their existing white-glove services—not replace them.

In 2021, the number of new mobile banking users in Canada will plummet to a third of the previous year’s level, considerably increasing competition among financial institutions (FIs), including the Bank of Montreal (BMO). As the battle for new mobile users heats up, the features of FIs’ mobile banking apps will be crucial: This report identifies which key growth opportunities BMO might focus on to gain and retain customers.

In 2021, the number of new mobile banking users in Canada will plummet to a third of the previous year’s level, considerably increasing competition among financial institutions (FIs), including CIBC. As the battle for new mobile users heats up, FIs’ mobile banking app features will be crucial. This report identifies which key growth opportunities CIBC might focus on to gain and retain customers.