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Bank 4.0
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Bank 4.0

by Brett King
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 43m
English
Wiley
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10Conclusion: The Roadmap to Bank 4.0

Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you. —Jay Samit, author of Disrupt You

When we talk about Bank 4.0 it is good to establish both a timeline and a definition for clarity:

BANK 1.0: Historical, traditional banking centred around the branch as the primary access point. Started with the Medici family in the 12th century.

BANK 2.0: The emergence of self-service banking, defined by the first attempts to provide access outside of bank working hours. Commenced with ATM machines and accelerated in 1995 with the commercial internet.

BANK 3.0: Banking when and where you needed it as redefined by the emergence of the smartphone in 2007, and accelerated with a shift to mobile payments, P2P and challenger banks built on top of mobile; channel agnostic.

BANK 4.0: Embedded, ubiquitous banking delivered in real time through the technology layer. Dominated by real time, contextual experiences, frictionless engagement and a smart, AI-based advice layer. Largely digital omni-channel with zero requirements for physical distribution.

If we try to represent this graphically, we would show the economics of banking (primarily distribution and delivery mechanics) on one axis versus friction (in customer experience) on the other.

Graph show friction from high to low versus distribution from physical to digital where four boxes labelled bank 1.0 1472 to 1980, bank 2.0 1980 to 2007, bank 3.0 2007 to 2017, and bank 4.0 2017 onwards arranged diagonally from origin to top right corner.

Figure 1: Embedded, ubiquitous banking must be fast, frictionless and real ...

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