Shape Finance

INSIGHTS

What financial services leaders are actually working through.

Our insights draw on ongoing research conversations, event discussions and market observation to surface the priorities, trade-offs and implementation questions shaping financial services.

FEATURED INSIGHT
REGTECH · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Moving AI from pilot to production in financial services

Across compliance and lending, financial institutions are moving beyond experimentation with AI. This insight looks at where adoption is reaching production, what is slowing implementation, and how teams are approaching governance, integration and the business case.

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FROM OUR RESEARCH

Drawing on conversations with compliance, financial crime and technology leaders across banks and financial institutions.

KEY THEMES

AI implementation

Governance & validation

Financial crime operations

Technology adoption

LATEST INSIGHTS

Latest thinking from across our research.

LENDING · TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY

The integrated vs modular question in lending technology

How lenders are thinking about architecture, vendor selection and the trade-offs between consolidation and specialist technology.

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REGTECH · IMPLEMENTATION

Why implementation is becoming the real RegTech differentiator

Technology capability matters, but financial institutions are increasingly scrutinising integration, deployment and the operational reality behind the product.

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FINANCIAL SERVICES · DATA

Building the foundations for AI in financial services

AI ambitions are moving faster than many firms’ underlying data environments. We look at the infrastructure, governance and operating questions sitting underneath adoption.

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WHAT WE’RE TRACKING

The questions shaping financial services technology.

Our research follows the operational questions emerging across the communities we bring together, from technology strategy and implementation to AI, data and changing operating models.

01 - AI & automation

Where firms are moving from experimentation into production, and the governance, accountability and operating questions that follow.

02 - Technology strategy

How financial institutions are approaching architecture, vendor selection, integration and the balance between consolidation and specialist technology.

03 - Data foundations

The infrastructure, governance and organisational changes needed to support more intelligent and automated financial services.

04 - Implementation & operating models

What determines whether new technology delivers value once it meets existing processes, teams, controls and legacy environments.

FROM INSIGHT TO CONVERSATION

The best insight often starts with the right conversation.

Shape Finance brings senior financial services leaders together to explore the questions shaping technology adoption, implementation and operating models in practice.