Financial Services

Symbiosis. Your bank has your trust, can fintech make you love it?

March 20, 2017

Global

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March 20, 2017

Global
Renée Friedman

EMEA

Renée Friedman joined The Economist Group in July 2016 as a Managing editor for EMEA.  Her work focuses on thought leadership programmes for the financial services sector.

Prior to joining The Economist Group, Renée worked in a variety of roles: in Economic and Political risk consulting, in finance in the City of London as an Economist, a Macro strategist and a Bond fund manager,  in the  international and UK domestic policy spheres as an Economist to the Treasury Select Committee at the House of Commons and as Senior Economist and Chief Technical Advisor for the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS,  and as an academic, designing and teaching economics courses at universities across London.

Renée has spoken on a variety of panels  and events focused on Russia, Ukraine and other emerging market economies including those for BNE Intellinews, IHS Global Insight, the IMF Poverty Reduction Strategy meetings, and for the UNDP. She has also appeared on CNBC.

Renée holds a PhD in Economics from London Business School, a Masters in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham, and a Bachelors in International Trade and Development from the London School of Economics & Political Science.  She is also a Prince 2 certified project manager. In addition to her native English, Renée speaks Russian.

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This report offers a new twist in the ‘tug of love’ story of banks and fintechs under changing regulatory and compliance rules.

Rather than hand-to-hand combat, banks are learning to love fintech in the hope that it will lead us to love our banks, too. This strategic U-turn by traditional banks has been quick—less than 12 months. However, building a loving, symbiotic relationship may take a little longer. We surveyed 200 global banking executives to investigate the challenges retail banks face in the years to 2020 and how they are responding.

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