Insights on Financial Services
Article
Can agentic AI (finally) modernize core technologies in insurance?
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Insurers have long understood the need to transform their core technologies. So, why haven’t they? Agentic AI may finally make the difference.
Report
The next age of fintech: AI, digital assets, and new paths to success
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Fintechs are now generating $650 billion in revenue, and the most successful ones are balancing scale, profitability, and new-found regulatory maturity.
Report
Global Banking Annual Review 2025: Why precision, not heft, defines the future of banking
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Banks need to prepare for the next growth curve. Global Banking Annual Review 2025 shows how a targeted approach can help them thrive.
Report
The future of AI in the insurance industry
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Only a few insurers have extracted outsize value from AI to gain a competitive edge. Joining their ranks requires a strategic, comprehensive approach that rewires the enterprise.
Interview
An agile approach to hiring: Mastercard’s tech talent transformation
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Leaders from the global payments technology company explain how embracing the nimble, collaborative ethos of product development enabled them to overhaul talent recruitment.
Article
The AI-powered bank: Rewiring for excellence in customer care
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To unlock AI value, banks must “rewire”: integrating technology into redesigned processes, unified data, and cross-functional operating models to achieve sustainable structural change.
Article
Midmarket insurance: Managing growth in a complex environment
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Adopting a data-driven framework to replace fragmented practices may be the key to risk-controlled growth for insurance’s strategically important mid-corporate market.
Article
Beyond $1 trillion: The next chapter for insurance and private capital
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Private-capital-backed insurers, whose assets totaled nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, have reshaped the life insurance industry over the past decade. As growth matures and returns compress, sustaining advantage will require integration—not just scale.
Blog Post
Can agentic AI solve the “last-mile” automation challenge for CIB?
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Capital markets and investment banks have difficult-to-automate processes. Agentic AI brings a fundamentally different approach that could help capital markets institutions bridge the gap.
Article
The signal in the sell-off: Wealth management’s value in the AI era
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As AI automates technical planning and other tasks, wealth managers must pivot from producing outputs to delivering outcomes anchored in human trust and defensible control points.
Article
How radical simplification can transform corporate and investment banking
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A rapidly evolving industry means CIBs must ramp up productivity, embrace AI, and sharpen their competitive edge to better position themselves for long-term success.
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Featured publications
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The stable door opens: How tokenized cash enables next-gen payments
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Stablecoins are transforming payments globally, and tailwinds may cause a material shift across the payments industry in 2025...
Report
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...
Article
Extracting value from AI in banking: Rewiring the enterprise
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To gain material value from AI, banks need to move beyond experimentation to transform critical business areas, including by...
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