The future of banking
The structural forces reshaping global banking and the strategic decisions leaders cannot defer....

May 18, 2026 • by Salvatore Cantale in Banking • 7 min read
A new report on the future of banking identifies six structural, powerful shifts affecting a bank’s ability to operate successfully over the coming decades. Bank leaders cannot afford to ignore them....
Continue readingApril 22, 2026 • by Vsevolod Shabad in Banking • 9 min read
AI efficiency gains dominate business cases, but capability losses are systematically underestimated and often ignored. Vsevolod Shabad explains how to mitigate this critical risk. ...
March 10, 2026 • by Jean-François Manzoni in Banking • 10 min read
Slawomir Krupa, CEO of Societe Generale, tells Jean-François Manzoni how restoring financial discipline and protecting the bank’s capacity to innovate under pressure helped restore faith in one of Europe’s oldest institutions...
February 11, 2026 • by Catherine Agamis, Hischam El-Agamy in Banking • 9 min read
How banks can position themselves across multiple futures to deliver on sustainability commitments while maintaining financial performance...
May 1, 2025 • by I by IMD in Banking • 4 min read
Sabine Abfalter, CFO of Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International, explores how finance leaders can support a bold vision for the future of banking....
March 10, 2025 • by David Bach in Banking • 6 min read
Switzerland should learn from the post-mortem into what drove the collapse of Credit Suisse before rushing to impose further regulation, the Group CEO of UBS said in a wide-ranging discussion on the...
December 20, 2024 • by Robert Hooijberg, Arturo Bris, David Bach, José Parra Moyano, Michael R. Wade, Julia Binder, Howard Yu, Simon J Evenett, Alyson Meister, Salvatore Cantale, Stefan Michel in Banking • 11 min read
At the end of last year, IMD professors outlined their expert predictions for 2024. Read on to find out who was proved wonderfully right by events, and whose crystal ball was occluded...
August 9, 2024 • by Howard Yu, Jialu Shan, Alexandre Sonderegger , Lawrence Tempel in Banking • 7 min read
Singapore-based DBS bank was being shaken by nimble competitors from China, and it needed to change fast. But CEO Piyush Gupta knew that blowing a fortune on the latest technology was not...
July 19, 2024 • by Peter Nathanial, Ludo Van der Heyden, Salvatore Cantale in Banking • 14 min read
In light of the Swiss Federal government’s report following the Credit Suisse debacle, how can the Swiss banking sector regain its reputation for stability and resilience?...
February 13, 2024 • by Camilla Erencin, Simon J Evenett, Alexander Gruber, Felix Reitz in Banking • 5 min read
As interest rates rose in many economies, fears of a “hard landing” grew. We examine whether a tighter monetary policy has translated into more firms going into corporate distress by tracking three...
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