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Benjamin serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. His research focuses on how consumers perceive, adopt, and use new technologies and what that means for business executives at consumer companies, encompassing topics like customer segmentation, business models, and managing multiple distribution channels.
His research explores how emerging technologies like the Internet and mobile phones affect consumers' behavior, what motivates their use of different channels for different tasks, and how new channels and technologies are changing consumers' media consumption and their relationships with consumer firms like retailers and financial services companies. In particular, he specializes in understanding the effect of the Internet and other new technologies on business models in retail financial services, including payments, banking, lending, investments, and insurance.
During his 13 years at Forrester, Benjamin has worked in the company's Consumer Technographics®, financial services, and eBusiness channel & product management professional teams. He is based in Forrester's London office.
Before he joined Forrester, Benjamin was an analyst at Fletcher Research, the UK Internet research company that Forrester acquired. There, he researched the nascent online retail, online financial services, and online advertising markets. Before joining Fletcher Research, Benjamin worked as a financial journalist in London for four years.
Benjamin has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford.
Design And Select Banking Platforms Based On Forward-Looking Target State Requirements
Forrester defined 14 requirements for the banking platform of the future — based on an updated view of banking IT in 2023 and Forrester's next-generation banking platform requirements. In...
I have discussed questions such as “Which banking platform vendor is the right one for a given financial services firm in its specific requirements context in a given country?” with...

A Cold Breeze And Only One Hot Region Characterize The 2009 Market
Some Banking Platform Vendors Mastered The 2009 Storm Smoothly
Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Considering participants of both the 2009 and 2010 surveys, deal volume of the top 10 vendors increased by...
Findings From Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey
Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that many financial services firms need to refocus their application infrastructure strategies to fully align with...
Next week, I will present first results of Forrester’s 2012 global banking platform deals survey. A total of 28 banking platform vendors submitted their 2012 deals for evaluation. One year ago,...
Findings From Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey
Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that financial services firms fall into two groups: One focuses on single vendor technology stacks, allowing for easier...
The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation
Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...
When designing application infrastructure strategy, planning for the renewal of their application landscape, or assessing their overall strategic position, banks and other types of firms in financial...
Some Are Less Global Than Others
Many off-the-shelf business apps are supposed to be global. However, the reality of what it really means to be global lies between off-the-shelf support and vast amounts of customization....
In 2006, Forrester found that organizational structure, internal enterprise goal systems, and most urgent business requirements were key obstacles on many firms’ journey toward broad...
Being A Systems Integrator Is No Longer Enough
Many banks struggle to find the right systems integrator (SI) or service partner to support their banking platform transformation initiative. Forrester talked with six vendors providing...

Banking IT In 2023 Becomes Banking IT Today As Well As Banking IT In 2026
Application development and delivery teams in financial services must design and select future-proof, forward-looking business applications capable of coping with future business scenarios. To...
Forrester began surveying global banking platform deals in 2005. For 2010, we evaluated about 1,200 banking platform deals submitted by 23 vendors and located in more than 130 countries. Shortly, we...
Findings From Our Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey
During the summer of 2010, Forrester surveyed 80 IT decision-makers in financial services (FS) firms in Europe, North America, and, for example, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. Our findings show...
For the past couple of months, we have been working on identifying best practices for application development and delivery teams executing on multichannel strategy. The related report will get...
For some time there have been rumors about Deutsche Banking having selected TCS BaNCS for some or all of its international subsidiaries. Today, both Deutsche Bankand Tata Consultancy Services...
Some Like It Hot
Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Four regions — Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America — saw average to very strong...
Be Strategic, Be Tactical, And Be Fast — The Multichannel Organization Revisited
Application development and delivery teams tasked with delivering rich and broad multichannel solutions are painfully aware that they will always be forced to set a course that balances rapid...
A Tool For Initial Steps Toward Selection Of A Transformation Service Firm
Forrester surveyed six global transformation service firms with focused offerings in the off-the-shelf banking platform space. Their transformation service offerings are broad and rich, covering many...
Small Banks Are Cloud Providers' Primary Target Market In The Banking Space
The cloud has become a key topic for many firms in many industries, including banking. In the future, banks should leverage the potential of public and community cloud solutions if they want to...