Global Retail Banking Report 2017

The Economist Intelligence Unit, on behalf of Temenos, surveyed 200 global banking executives to investigate the challenges retail banks face in the years to 2020 and how they are responding. 

Some key findings: 

How do corporate treasurers manage risk in challenging economic times?

A highly anticipated and well-attended session at EuroFinance's annual flagship conference in Vienna brought together leading corporate treasury executives to discuss how to manage risk in challenging economic times.

How the regulatory wave in banking will hit treasurers

Bank regulation has come a long way. The perceived lesson of the financial crisis, namely that banks’ insufficient capital buffers were one catalyst, has spawned a wave of rules, ratcheting up the amount of equity banks must hold against their loans. While these new rules have undoubtedly shored up global financial stability, recent developments have also demonstrated that they raise a host of challenges for corporate treasurers.

Managing risk in challenging economic times

Key findings include:

Swiss banks try to raise homegrown fintech startups to global stage

There are 160 fintech startups in Switzerland—a number that is growing steadily. But Swiss startups, finance focused or otherwise, have historically struggled with international growth, lacking a real incentive to think beyond their borders.

Millennials train in banking to succeed in tech

Are finance jobs becoming a conveyor belt for millennials wishing to go into tech startups? Banks invest heavily in training to create well-rounded employees with high-stamina and perfected soft skills.

How customers are now calling the shots in retail banking

By most accounts it’s a good time to be a retail bank customer in Europe, particularly so in the UK.

Tailored Direct Private Equity

Insights from Jose Camacho, Cyril Demaria and Dweep Chanana

King of the banking world: UK governor chairs back-slapping panel of global central bankers

Earlier this week, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King convened a panel of his high-profile friends to discuss the lessons that economists should learn from the global financial crisis.

Has state intervention in banking gone too far?

In the opening of his book, Lombard Street, Walter Bagehot remarked that he would not pass comment on Peel's Banking Act of 1844 as it was still too controversial to discuss.

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