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Peter Heywood

Peter Heywood Regional Leader & Head of Market at ISG

Developing trends in the financial sector in 2023

The financial sector is facing several unprecedented challenges as we head into 2023. The future is uncertain; from political instability and economic uncertainty to technological disruption and changing consumer behaviour, financial organisations are looking for new ways to support customers. While the financial sector has long relied on traditio...

/retail /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Peter Heywood

Peter Heywood Regional Leader & Head of Market at ISG

Inflation and operating model optimisation

Rising inflation across the US, UK and the Eurozone is creating massive pressures across global markets. We’re seeing a reduction in the breadth of credit products, like mortgages, as they become more unaffordable, which leads to a reduction in volume and profitability as net interest margins are squeezed. Defaults are increasing – and will continu...

/markets Trends in Financial Services

Peter Heywood

Peter Heywood Regional Leader & Head of Market at ISG

The future of bank branches

Retail banks have been making a push into digital services in recent years (albeit at varying speeds), but the pandemic supercharged this process. It became essential for digital interaction points like banking apps to be as seamless and comprehensive as possible as it became harder to access local bank branches. Bank customers very quickly became...

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Peter Heywood

Peter Heywood Regional Leader & Head of Market at ISG

Developing a successful multi-cloud strategy for banks

The cost-efficiency potential of the cloud is attracting banks and financial services companies to ditch their legacy platforms and modernise their systems with cloud technologies. This would have been unthinkable even a few years ago, but we’re seeing the beginning of a new era for the industry as traditional institutions face stiff competition f...

/cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation