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Company announcement/sustainable

Doconomy and BCG form climate action partnership

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, has announced a new strategic partnership with Doconomy, a leading provider in climate technology, aimed at supporting financial institutions in the development of their sustainability agendas.

14 September 2023

Company announcement/inclusion

Spice Money and Boston Consulting Group to build platform for rural population

Spice Money (subsidiary of DiGiSPICE Technologies), India’s leading rural fintech that is revolutionizing the way Bharat banks, today announced its strategic partnership with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading global consulting firm.

10 May 2023

Company announcement/retail

Innovate Finance and BCG publish new report on open finance

Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, in partnership with professional services firm BCG, has released a new report with key recommendations for the UK to unlock the full potential of Open Finance.

06 March 2023

News/retail

Money 20/20 EU: Take caution with hyper-expansion

Hyper-personalisation is receiving significant attention from financial services at present. Yet expansion into new niches which businesses haven’t fully understood poses new risks, and, as explored by Money 20/20 Europe’s panel session, ‘Hyper-personalisation in a data-driven world', this can have severe impacts across an entire business model.

10 June 2022

Company announcement/crypto

Central bank digitial currencies - a global capital markets perspective

Over 70% of central banks have begun exploring the possibility of introducing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

22 February 2022

News/regulation

WEF: Little market-wide agreement on DLT use in capital markets

A report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that while distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers the potential for significant market-wide transformation, market participants are still far from adopting this technology at scale at a market-wide level.

06 May 2021

News/sustainable

AFME: ‘Financial materiality is not sustainable finance’s end goal’

In conversation with Richard Peers for Finextra TV, Tonia Plakhotniuk, associate director, policy (sustainable finance & financial reporting) at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) traverses a number of predications we can expect to see around sustainable finance in 2021.

25 January 2021

News/payments

Payments revenue growth forecasts almost halved under brightest post-Pandemic outlook

Annual global payments revenues could reach $1.8 trillion under a quick Covid-rebound scenario, according to data from the Boston Consulting Group, representing a considerable slowdown in growth from pre-pandemic boom times.

05 October 2020

News

Securities industry close to adopting APIs – SWIFT and BCG

A new joint SWIFT and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report reveals that interest in application program interfaces (APIs) is rapidly increasing in the securities servicing industry and firms may leverage the technology to handle diversity of asset types.

30 July 2019