Press Release By Finastra
- Research into ‘the journey to financial empowerment’ offers new insights into how people feel about their bank and their financial goals.
- Customers crave three things in their financial relationships: knowledge, control and freedom.
- Incumbent banks risk being relegated to a passive role.
Dubai, UAE, 2 June 2021: Finastra has released research around ‘the journey to financial empowerment’ – a unique and comprehensive global ethnographic study that explores people’s feeling towards their money and the type of relationship they’d like to have with their banks.
Carried out between the second half of 2020 and early 2021, the key objective of this ethnographic research is to understand consumer attitudes towards digital banking and analyze the factors that could limit consumer adoption of innovative products and services. It is clear from the findings that consumers crave an improved overall digital experience and better relationships with their financial service providers that enable them to reach their financial goals more quickly.
The study has uncovered three key enablers that lead individuals to foster a good banking relationship and optimize their finances:
- Knowledge – A good understanding of the tools provided by the institution that manages their money
- Control – The sense of control that comes from being secure in this knowledge, and having the tools that empower them to feel in charge of their finances
- Freedom – The sense of freedom that is created when they take charge of their financial future
The report outlines how new digital and challenger banks are often doing these things, while some long-established banks risk being relegated to a passive role unless they start helping people on their financial empowerment journey. Personalization is at the heart of what people want. The bank’s role is to provide the knowledge, tools and the means to help people feel in control and at the center of their financial life.
Download the research here.
About Finastra
Finastra is building an open platform that accelerates collaboration and innovation in financial services, creating better experiences for people, businesses and communities. Supported by the broadest and deepest portfolio of financial services software, Finastra delivers this vitally important technology to financial institutions of all sizes across the globe, including 90 of the world’s top 100 banks. Our open architecture approach brings together a number of partners and innovators. Together we are leading the way in which applications are written, deployed and consumed in financial services to evolve with the changing needs of customers. Learn more at finastra.com
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