Mounting cost pressures are leading European card processing players to redouble their efforts to achieve savings and productivity gains. Source: McKinsey Digital banking: Winning the beachhead

Mobile, online and social technologies are revolutionizing consumer access to information and sparking demand for new services. Source: McKinsey Innovation and disruption in U.S. merchant payments

Cross-border trade is growing relative to global output, making trade finance crucial to a wider cross-section of cash management clients. Source: McKinsey Insights into the dynamics of new trade flows

With a dramatic decline in acquisition over the past five years, issuers are finding it hard to differentiate themselves. The result is a race to attract new accounts. Source: McKinsey New frontiers in credit card segmentation: Tapping unmet consumer needs

Source: McKinsey The asset management industry: Outcomes are the new alpha

Source: McKinsey The second act begins for ETFs

While the global banking industry has achieved a modicum of stability over the past several years, earning a record $1 trillion in 2014 and recording a 9.5% return on equity for the third consecutive year, banks now face rising competitive threats on all sides as new technology companies and others seek to poach their Read more about The fight for the customer: McKinsey global banking annual review 2015[…]

The CEO of Italian telecommunications company Wind, Maximo Ibarra, explains how the company is evolving to serve increasingly connected, savvy customers. Source: McKinsey Embracing technological change, Italian style

Using data is nothing new to insurance carriers and actuaries. Yet the boom in advanced analytics is driving fundamental change. Source: McKinsey Transforming into an analytics-driven insurance carrier