How banks win in the digital era
Prevailing cookie-cutter strategies and monolithic business models limit banks in reaching their full potential. That’s why banks will embrace more diversified strategies that are tailored to meet the needs [...]
Growing with a new commercial mindset and strategy
The Nordic mid-sized bank, founded in early 2000, belongs to the first wave of challenger banks. The board has set new ambitious growth targets, and achieving them requires rethinking [...]
Expanding into new markets with a bundled offering
Holvi, a high-growth BBVA portfolio company, is a Pan-European B2B banking and SaaS service. BBVA strives to grow the business by entering new markets and inventing new cross-category offerings [...]
Improving bottom line with digital transformation
POP Alliance represents twenty-six independent cooperative POP Banks in Finland. The bank group is known for its customer-focus and excellent personal service. To ensure future competitiveness, they needed to [...]
Challenging giants
When CEO Wouter Verschuren took over the reins of Istec from his father Dé Verschuren, Wouter set his vision on growing the business by taking on the global competitors [...]
How ING is innovating its way to the bank of the future
In cooperation with Holland Fintech, Accenture and others we recently released a report on the Dutch banking innovation ecosystem. Based on Ross Republic’s project work with several international banks, [...]
Moving past the hype of Open Banking
Since the PSD2 deadline hit two weeks ago on Sept 14th, we can finally leave the reductive threat vs. opportunity discussion behind us and start exploring meaningful, customer-centric applications. [...]
How Dutch banks prepare for the future
In cooperation with Holland Fintech, Accenture, Fincog and Infinium we created a new report on the Dutch banking innovation ecosystem. Based on Ross Republic's project work with several international [...]
Product portfolio innovation in financial services
This is the third blog post about our new financial services whitepaper. The first one covers the importance of product portfolio innovation, the second one explores how to deliver [...]
Rethinking banking delivery
This is the second blog post about our new financial services whitepaper. While the first one covers the importance of product portfolio innovation, this one explores how to deliver [...]