"What Can FinTechs and Traditional Banks Learn from each other?"
From platform thinking to risk management - there's plenty to learn from challenger and traditional banks. This talk presents eight ideas and learnings from a global point interview. Key topics: technical architecture, teams, culture, growth, trust, branding, risk management and customer satisfaction.
Lessons from Revolut
1. Banking as a Platform
2. Getting it Done
3. Growth Teams
4. No Middle Man
Lessons from Traditional Banks
1. Build Trust via Advice
2. Invest in Branding
3. Building Business
4. Owning the Majority
10. Building a State-of-the-Art Card Fraud Detection System in 9 Months
Sherlock in numbers:
• over $3M saved during the
year in production
• just 1c out of $100 is lost
due to fraud
• 96% of fraudulent
transactions are caught
• 30% of Sherlock’s fraud
predictions turn out to be
correct
11. “The reality is what we're trying to achieve is [to]
build a 10x better financial services company that is
10x cheaper as well. The only way to do it is not
building only one product, but building a platform
with a lot of products on top of it.”
NIKOLAY STORONSKY
13. The individuals that really set themselves apart
and really thrive at Revolut are the ones that
take the initiative to put themselves out of that
comfort zone and take ownership of that tech
and learn something
REBECCA SOUTH
Head of Executive Search
16. Marketer
Brand & Story
Business Developer
Product Growth
Comms. Mgr
The Message
Community Mgr
Activation
Country Mgr
Growth
Growth Teams: Decentralised And Cross Functional
19. Legacy Banks Are at a Major Disadvantage
Legacy systems are an inhibitor to
the technical aspirations of banks
with almost half (46%) of bankers
seeing legacy systems as the biggest
barriers to the growth of commercial
banks.
FRAEDOM
20. Effectively when you run all the infrastructure in-
house, you can actually make money out of this
business, and the business becomes quite
profitable
NIKOLAY STORONSKY
Founder and CEO of Revolut.
23. Most Brits don’t trust challenger banks –
and do trust traditional banks
When asked, almost seven in ten (68%) said they trust their current bank, and
less than a fifth (17%) said that challengers are as reliable and trustworthy as
traditional institutions. In general, consumers said they’d prefer to use these
traditional institutions over neobanks (47% versus 11%).
YouGov UK, 2020
26. Consumer awareness is low
When asked, only 9% of Brits could name any challenger bank at all. The best
performing brand in terms of spontaneous awareness was Monzo, which was
recalled by 5% of respondents.
YouGov UK, 2020
29. Traditional Banks have been a
foundation of support for SME’s
Banks loaned SME's $600M in the US in 2017. 59% used the loan for expansion.
They also provided essential services such as investment management, corporate
Credit Cards, bookkeeping and much more.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
32. Majority of UK people are happy with
their current bank
The evidence doesn’t suggest that most Brits are crying out for alternatives.
Almost half (48%) say their current provider provides great service versus 11%
who say it provides poor service
YouGov UK, 2020
33.
34. TRADITIONAL BANKS
1. BANKING AS A PLATFORM
2. GETTING IT DONE
3. GROWTH TEAMS
4. NO MIDDLE MAN
1. BUILD TRUST VIA ADVICE
2. INVEST IN BRANDING
3. BUILDING BUSINESS
4. OWNING THE MAJORITY
36. The Most Useful Innovation When Choosing a Financial Services
Company:
53%
A CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE THAT
INTEGRATES ALL ASPECTS OF
MY FINANCIAL LIFE
2019 EDELMAN TRUST BAROMETER.