Barclays Mobile Banking in Numbers

Infographic | January 7, 2020

More and more banks are on their journey to the cloud. It is no longer seen as the future or an emerging trend; it has become a critical tool to remain competitive. But the first question banks must ask themselves is, what does ‘cloud’ mean to them?

Infographic | January 28, 2020

Since the introduction of the first credit card with a magnetic stripe in 1966, financial technology has come a long way. Silicon Valley may not have birthed the term “fintech”, but it has certainly helped catapult its applications into the mainstream. Leveraging everything from basic apps to the blockchain, the changing dynamics of fintech are creating new investment opportunities every day, growing its appetite with every new megadeal.

Infographic | November 1, 2021

37% of Financial Services firms globally adopt AI to reduce operational costs AI is poised to give the banking industry an aggregate potential savings of $447 Billion by 2023 A Juniper research predicts that 90% of interactions in banks will be automated by 2022 using chatbots As per research, AI will reduce banking operational expenditures by 22% Automating middle-oce tasks with AI has the potential to save North American banks $70 Billion by 2025.

Infographic | March 22, 2022

The most common reasons for outsourcing financial services are: Reduce Costs, Focus on Core Business, Enhance Service Quality, Access to Financial Skills and Infrastructure, Critical to Business Needs, Drive Transformational Change, and Manage Business Environment.

Infographic | December 24, 2019

Tech firms have enjoyed a deluge of funding in the last few years. As discussed in our State of Venture Capital report, 2018, in particular, was a bumper year, with a total of $254 billion invested globally into ~18,000 startups through venture capital funds—a sharp increase of 46% from 2017’s total. Figures for 2019 are not yet completely finalized, but initial reports point to a slowdown in funding levels in the first half of the year and a mild rebound in Q3.

Infographic | April 7, 2021

Open Finance involves an extension of Open Banking principles to a wider field of financial services and products. It is a new paradigm where data from multiple sources beyond banking can help build innovative and inclusive financial services. These conditions make Open Finance a perfect fit for Latin America, a region where users’ financial lives don’t take place exclusively within the walls of banks. In part, because part of the population is still underserved by traditional financial institutions: only 51 percent of adults in the region are bank account owners. And, increasingly, because emerging fintech providers are targeting these customers with digital solutions.