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• Report Build A Dynamic Digital Banking Roadmap

  Roadmap: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Peter Wannemacher

  Digital business leaders at banks must have both a vision of the future and a strategic plan for getting there. But moving from vision to action is never easy. Banks need a roadmap that lays out...

• Report How To Monetize Open Finance And Platform Business Models

  Business Case: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  January 14, 2021 | Jacob Morgan

  Financial services executives have more go-to-market options available than ever before for their firm's products and services — thanks to open banking and platform business models. But how do you...

• Report Learn From — Don't Fear — The Tech Titans To Prepare For The Future Of Banking

  December 17, 2020 | Alyson Clarke

  The tech titans — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — have been dabbling in financial services for years, and they continue to push into many aspects of banking and payments. This report looks at...

• Report Research Overview: Financial Well-Being

  A Guide To Our Financial Well-Being-Related Research

  December 15, 2020 | Aurelie L'Hostis

  Sustainable finance has become an imperative. Promoting customers' financial well-being is a great opportunity for financial services firms to drive customer engagement, create new value, and...

• Report How To Reinvent Small Business Lending

  SMB Lending Transformation Requires A Reset Of Technology, Processes, And Culture

  December 10, 2020 | Zhi-Ying Barry

  COVID-19 is challenging how business lenders operate at every part of the lending value chain. To address these challenges, some lenders have begun to digitize parts of the origination and...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Chinese Lenders Must Learn From Digital Lenders To Stay Relevant

  December 9, 2020 | Meng Liu, Arnav Gupta

  Recent Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics® data reveals that digital lenders have gained significant mindshare among Chinese borrowers and often delighted customers with their service...

• Report COVID-19 Is Forcing Lenders To Transform

  Accelerate Small Business Lending Digital Transformation To Drive Growth And Demonstrate Leadership

  August 26, 2020 | Zhi-Ying Barry

  COVID-19 has exacerbated the liquidity challenge that small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) globally face. Many incumbent lenders have been forced to transform their systems and processes to help...

• Report The Future Of Banking Is Built On Trust

  Vision: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  July 29, 2020 | Jacob Morgan, Alyson Clarke

  The economics of the next decade will challenge banks. COVID-19 has shifted the focus but will not dominate the future narrative. Leading banks are pivoting and rebooting their strategy —...

• Report New Tech: Open Banking Intermediaries, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 35 Providers

  June 2, 2020 | Jacob Morgan

  Open banking requires that banks make their services available to third parties; however, differing standards, specifications, and deployments result in the need to resolve complexity across...

• Report The Renaissance Of Branch Banking In Asia Pacific

  Let CX And EX Drive Branch Transformation

  April 27, 2020 | Tom Mouhsian

  Digital self-service and transaction automation have led banks to close branches. But many customers still depend on branch staff for financial consultations and support, shifting the key drivers...

• Report Build A Thriving Developer Community

  How Leading Financial Firms Prioritize Developer Engagement

  April 16, 2020 | Jacob Morgan, Jost Hoppermann

  Astute digital business leaders recognize that a developer portal is actually a shop window to entice collaboration and innovation with the developer community — the ultimate builders of...

• Report The State Of Digital Banking In Asia

  A Look At Submissions To The Digital Banker Awards For 2019 And 2020

  March 27, 2020 | Tom Mouhsian, Frederic Giron

  The banking landscape in Asia is rapidly evolving as new entrants and incumbents vie to win, serve, and retain ever more entitled and empowered customers. Forrester worked with The Digital Banker...

• Report The Dawn Of Autonomous Finance

  Algorithm-Driven Services Will Reshape Finance

  March 18, 2020 | Oliwia Berdak, Peter Wannemacher

  People's lives are becoming ever more automated as millions of algorithms make decisions and take actions on consumers' behalf. This shift toward autonomous services is starting to happen in...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Go Beyond Just AI And APIs For Financial Services Tech Innovation

  February 27, 2020 | Jost Hoppermann

  Financial services teams should be aware of their peers' investment priorities and key areas of innovation if they want to keep up. This infographic provides an overview of innovation and...

• Report Forrester Infographic: SaaS Faces Obstacles In Financial Services

  Financial Services Firms Are Reluctant To Nab Key Tech Opportunities

  February 13, 2020 | Jost Hoppermann

  Banks and other financial services firms have already used software-as-a-service (SaaS) for horizontal solutions like CRM and HR. However, SaaS in financial-services-specific (vertical) deployments...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Deliver Better Banking Experiences To Retain Indian Customers

  January 31, 2020 | Arnav Gupta

  In May 2019, Forrester surveyed 2,988 metropolitan Indian online adults to understand their expectations when interacting with Indian financial services firms. This report helps digital banking...

• Report The Future Of Work In Banking

  Routine Compliance And Branch Management Tasks Give Way To Deeper Customer Relationships And Digital Skills

  January 14, 2020 | Alyson Clarke, J. P. Gownder, August du Pont

  Digital technology can perform routine tasks like data entry more effectively than humans, freeing up human workers to complete other, more complex tasks. Banks that find the right balance of human...

• Report Now Tech: Digital Banking Platforms, Q4 2019

  Forrester's Overview Of 35 Digital Banking Platforms

  December 26, 2019 | Jost Hoppermann

  You can use digital banking platforms to improve customer service and account opening; reduce time-to-market of new products and services and downtimes; and enable great business agility. But to...

• Report Best Practices In Global Mobile Banking Functionality, 2019

  Leading Banks Continue To Raise The Bar On Mobile Functionality

  December 23, 2019 | Arnav Gupta, Meng Liu, Zhi-Ying Barry

  Mobile apps have become the touchpoint of choice for millions of banking customers to manage their finances. With expectations rising, digital banking teams know they need to continuously iterate...

• Report Libra Isn't Dead, But It Needs A Better Form Of Life Support To Survive

  Fine Words About Regulatory Compliance Aren't Enough

  December 19, 2019 | Martha Bennett

  October 2019 was an eventful month for Libra: Seven major companies withdrew from the initiative, the Libra Association held its inaugural meeting, and the US House Committee on Financial Services...

• Report The Coming Upheaval In Singapore's Banking Landscape

  December 17, 2019 | Zhi-Ying Barry

  The arrival of digital-only banks will change the Singapore's banking landscape. Singaporean consumers, many of whom are Progressive Pioneers, are warming to the idea of banking with these new...

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  Webinar The Pulse Of Financial Services Customers In Asia Pacific

  November 5, 2019 | Zhi-Ying Barry, Frederic Giron, Arnav Gupta

  The adoption of digital banking is about to accelerate and reach new levels of scale in Asia Pacific. Pioneers such as WeBank and Kakao have foreshadowed what is on the way, but this is just the...

• Report Marketplaces Will Reshape Financial Services

  Marketplaces Will Be The Most Successful Platform Business Model In Financial Services

  October 25, 2019 | Jacob Morgan

  Marketplace business models offer many advantages over traditional linear value chains, benefiting both providers and customers, as well as the owner of the marketplace. While many new marketplaces...

• Report Case Study: How WeBank Became The World's Leading Digital Bank

  Tencent-Backed WeBank Is Driving Financial Inclusion At Scale In China

  October 24, 2019 | Meng Liu, Aurelie L'Hostis

  Financial inclusion is a billion-customer-plus opportunity that many traditional banks neglect or fail to grasp. WeBank leveraged Tencent's digital ecosystem and emerging technology capabilities to...

• Report Eight Ways To Grow Deposits

  Strategies And Tactics For Banks And Credit Unions To Drive Deposit Growth

  October 23, 2019 | Alyson Clarke

  Winning deposits is a key priority for many banks and credit unions, and competition is fierce in the battle to find cheap deposits and keep funding costs down. But attracting deposits isn't only...