Report

State of banking and financial wellness

24 August 2021
24 August 2021
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Insights from 1K+ Banking Decision-Makers and Retail Consumers across Asia Pacific.
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Backbase

With consumer worries about debt and the rise of new fintech disruptors, banks and especially personal financial management (PFM) tools which have now evolved into digital money management, play a key role in financial wellness.

Commissioned by Backbase, this Forrester study featuring the insights of 1K+ business decision-makers and retail-banking consumers across Asia Pacific (APAC) reveals:

  • Top 5 Challenges of Banking Consumers
  • The Evolution of Personal Financial Management (PFM) to Digital Money Management and Financial Wellness
  • Country Spotlights:
    • Australia and New Zealand
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Japan
    • Malaysia
    • Philippines
    • Singapore
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
  • Key recommendations
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Subline

To succeed in the digital age, financial services providers must understand how to engage customers and serve their deepest needs. Having the latest technology is not enough — you must know how to use it to enhance customer experience and build long-term loyalty.

Forrester

To succeed in the digital age, financial services providers must understand how to engage customers and serve their deepest needs. Having the latest technology is not enough — you must know how to use it to enhance customer experience and build long-term loyalty.

Forrester

In this new era of digitalisation, delivering differentiated customer value hinges on building trust through insights that can improve the financial wellbeing of customers…

Elaine Ng
Financial Services Leader PwC Malaysia

Players like Grab have started offering embedded wealth as part of their core service to customers and PFM will play a similar important role for many fintech and non-traditional financial services…

Basudev Banerjee
Director & Industry Leader — Financial Services Industry, APAC Microsoft

The last two years have seen a cultural shift in consumer behaviour and expectations, with today’s consumers demanding more oversight and control over their finances…

Myles Bertrand
Managing Director, APAC Mambu

Modern PFM apps offer enhanced consumer engagement by leveraging open banking… [and] can seamlessly link to your banks without asking for credentials and even link to banks that don’t have a website.

Adrian Nowell
APAC Strategy Director — Financial Services Mobiquity Inc

Competition is heating up between PFM apps, and the room for error in the onboarding user journey will become even narrower, as consumers become increasingly less tolerant of inconveniences and poor user experiences.​..

Frederic Ho
Vice President, APAC Jumio

Technology enables and differentiates you. What you are building, you’re not building for today, you’re building for the years ahead.

Manish Bhai
CEO & Co-Founder UNObank
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