The Future of Retail Financial Services
The Future of Retail Financial Services
What policy mix for a balanced digital transformation?
Sylvain Bouyon
Report of a CEPS-ECRI Task Force
Chaired by
Kim Vindberg-Larsen
Centre for European Policy Studies
European Credit Research Institute
Brussels
The European Credit Research Institute (ECRI) is an independent think tank that carries out research and contributes to the policy debate on financial services in Europe. It is managed by CEPS, a leading think tank covering a broad range of policies in EU affairs.
This report is based on the discussions and main findings in the CEPS-ECRI Task Force on The Future of Retail Financial Services, chaired by Kim Vindberg-Larsen, a FinTech entrepreneur. These findings are substantiated and elaborated via independent research carried out by the author Sylvain Bouyon, CEPS-ECRI Research Fellow, who acted as rapporteur for the Task Force.
The group met four times over a concentrated period from mid-September 2016 to January 2017. The policy recommendations put forward in this report reflect a general consensus reached by Task Force members, although not every member agrees with every aspect of each recommendation. A list of members, observers and invited guests of the Task Force can be found in Annex 1. The members were given the opportunity to comment on the draft final report, but its contents may only be attributed to the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions to which the members belong.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
Figure 1.Volume of digital data stored
Figure 2.Social networking use (% of internet-using adults, 2005-15)
Figure 3.Distribution channels for different products: Consumer research (2015, % of total)
Figure 4.Distribution channels for different products: Purchase and post-sale phase (2015, % of total)
Figure 5.Distribution channels for personal loans, by country (2015, % of total)
Figure 6.Devices used for product research on personal loans (2015, % of total)
Figure 7.Devices used for product research on car insurance (2015, in % of total)
Figure 8.Opening a (current) account: What are the relevant requirements?
List of Tables
Table 1.Different types of FinTech start-ups involved in retail banking and non-life insurance
Table 2.Specific requirements for the online/offline information disclosure in European rules
Table 3.Type of eID mean, e-service, e-government and e-banking, by country
Table 4.Authentication mechanisms used in e-finance and e-payment services
List of Boxes
Box 1.Rapid growth in the volume of digital unstructured data created by consumers
Box 2.New models of credit scoring
Box 3.Original objectives of general directives on consumer protection
Box 4.Original objectives of financial services directives on consumer protection