Mobile Hot, Cloud Not in Financial Services

Though most financial services firms consider themselves "fast followers" as opposed to trailblazers when it comes to adopting new technology, they tend to embrace the technology they do adopt and make it central to the business, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and Verizon. 

The survey polled 672 executives in all industries, including 82 in financial services, on their views on technology. The responses from the financial services professionals indicate an eagerness to adopt new technology, despite the industry's reputation for conservatism. 

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Some 36% said they were "ahead of their competitors" in use of new technologies, and 68% say they’d "moderately, significantly, or completely changed" their core business strategy in the past three years. Additionally, financial services firms are building new technologies directly into their products and services more than almost any other sector, the survey found. Nearly 75% of financial services respondents said their offerings had at least moderately changed as a result of new technology within the past three years, compared with an average of 68% of the overall survey.

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Bryan Yurcan is associate editor for Bank Systems and Technology. He has worked in various editorial capacities for newspapers and magazines for the past 8 years. After beginning his career as a municipal and courts reporter for daily newspapers in upstate New York, Bryan has ... View Full Bio