Insights on Financial Services
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Building profit resilience in European private banking
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Private banks face a critical decision point: Strengthen their business focus and monetization discipline, or risk declining profits.
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Global Banking Annual Review 2026: Precision with speed
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In this preview of our 2026 Global Banking Annual Review, we provide a glimpse of banks’ continued strong results in 2025; the emergence of a new world map; the tipping point for customer ownership; and the unprecedented pace at which AI is remaking the industry, prompting banks to accelerate their precision strategies and evolve into multispeed organizations.
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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.
Podcast
Talking with Daniel Marovitz, SVP of Fintech at Booking.com
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Booking.com’s senior vice president of fintech describes how the travel-booking company has become the global platform of choice by managing complexity and easing customers’ pain points.
Article
Turning sustainability compliance into a competitive edge
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How financial institutions can turn mandatory reporting of financed emissions into a growth opportunity.
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Five client-led shifts reshaping European wealth management
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Survey results point to changing consumer preferences that are disrupting and transforming the industry in Europe—and highlight the need for a new set of strategic imperatives.
Blog Post
What Latin America’s wholesale banking model teaches about resilience
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Banks in the region follow a formula designed for volatility and complexity. Banks elsewhere should take note.
Blog Post
The future underwriting operating system: From inbox to AI nerve center
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With agentic AI, commercial and specialty insurers can move from manual case-by-case underwriting to a machine-first, human-governed model.
Blog Post
Banking trends snapshot: Finding value from innovation
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Analyzing a decade of banking innovation identifies clear trends for the industry’s direction and how leaders can gain a competitive advantage. Hint: It’s not about doing more.
Case Study
Blackstone’s Legal & Compliance AI transformation started with technology. It succeeded because it put people first
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By first redesigning how decisions flow—clarifying ownership and codifying precedent—the financial services firm was able to rewire its Legal & Compliance group with technology at the core.
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Beyond stablecoins: The emerging architecture of on-chain money
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As attention focuses on stablecoins, a larger $4 trillion transformation is underway, integrating bank deposits and central bank assets into a unified global monetary stack.
Talking Banking Matters
Leaders in Payments is an original podcast series from McKinsey’s Global Banking Practice, featuring conversations with...
Banking & Securities matters
Short takes on critical topics for leaders in banking, securities and beyond.
McKinsey on Insurance
McKinsey Insurance leaders and other experts help you navigate the challenges of a fast-changing insurance landscape and inspire...
Insurance blog
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Featured publications
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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...
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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...
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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...