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Banking for SMEs: The voice of the makers

These interviews with leading finance executives provide strategic insights into the current state of SME banking and its fintech future.

Banking for small and medium enterprises

This research provides strategic insights into the state of SME banking and its fintech future—as well as actions to take moving forward.

2024 Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets

This report describes the overall BFM landscape for 2024 as well as critical generative AI use cases in banking.

Embedded finance: Creating the everywhere, everyday bank

Embedded finance is essential for modern banking strategies. Learn how financial institutions are boosting business performance on the platform economy.

Embedded finance: The voice of the makers

Hear from experts and makers what opportunities embedded finance creates for banks, non-banking partners, and tech-forward competitors.

2023 Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets

Banks and financial markets firms can expect “certain uncertainty” in 2023. What might an agile response look like this year?

Foundations of banking excellence

Explore IBM and BIAN’s findings on how healthier financial institutions and banks accelerate digital transformation and digitalization.

2022 Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets

Financial services experts highlight the top 10 industry imperatives for 2022.

Banking on open hybrid multicloud

Platform economies are revolutionizing financial services. Open hybrid multicloud is helping industry leaders adapt.

More Banking and Financial Markets research and insights

Telecoms and banks connect

Explore three steps telecoms can take with banking partners to generate new revenue through innovative mobile financial services.

The as-is and future of Enterprise Architecture implementation in China’s banking industry - Chinese

The financial industry has evolved from financial informatization and Internet finance to the era of financial technology in which finance and digital technology are fully and deeply integrated.

Foundations of banking excellence: Practices and priorities to accelerate digital transformation - C...

How do banks with healthier financial performance accelerate digital transformation? The IBV, in collaboration wth BIAN, interviewed 2,000 banking CIOs and CTOs worldwide to find out.

Hurdles to accelerating banking transformation INFOGRAPHIC

Key highlights for IBM and BIAN research collaboration “Foundations of banking excellence: Practices and priorities to accelerate transformation”

Data Integration Strategy of Large Group Enterprises - Chinese

With the enablement of blockchain, 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other technologies, enterprises are able to generate business insight, prevent risks.

Achieving "extreme digitization" to reshape the future of financial services -Chinese

The financial industry has entered the era of deep integration of financial technology.