The CEO of a cutting-edge fintech explain how his start-up offers investment services once reserved for the ultrawealthy to successful professionals. Source: McKinsey Targeting an untapped fintech market worth trillions: A conversation with Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta

The energy transition continues apace. Meeting increasingly bold climate targets requires reducing capital expenditures while accelerating project timelines. Source: McKinsey Introduction: February 2024

Integrating AI into Canadian healthcare could help simplify administrative work; improve system management, care quality, and patient and staff experience; and boost affordability via lower spending. Source: McKinsey The potential benefits of AI for healthcare in Canada

Welcome to this edition of Voices on Infrastructure by the Global Infrastructure Initiative (GII). Source: McKinsey News from the Global Infrastructure Initiative: February 2024

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Rising energy costs, growing consumption, and the need to meet decarbonization goals are pressuring telcos to lower costs and to use electricity more efficiently. Source: McKinsey The growing imperative of energy optimization for telco networks

With advances in AI, telecom operators can better understand individual customers’ network experience, enabling ROI-maximizing capital allocation, higher reliability, and better commercial outcomes. Source: McKinsey The network is the product: How AI can put telco customer experience in focus

Are you making the right things effortless and the wrong things hard? To remove friction in your organization, you may want to start thinking like a friction fixer. Source: McKinsey Author Talks: Got friction? Stanford’s Robert I. Sutton shares what you can do about it

Four tactics can improve telecom companies’ returns on fiber rollouts, helping to connect more of the millions of people who remain without high-speed access. Source: McKinsey The keys to deploying fiber networks faster and cheaper