Digital Bank Strategy — The Missing 4th Option

Chris Gledhill
4 min readJun 27, 2020

I conducted a twitter survey on Bank Strategy and I was surprised by the inconclusive results. I asked my followers (who are mostly Finance and/or Technology folks) the best strategy for large incumbent banks to compete with new digital banks. The options were to buy a digital bank, build their own digital bank or transform themselves into a digital bank. Of the 1000+ survey responses, the opinion was split almost evenly!

Pie chart showing even split between Buy, Build or Transform as answer to how large incumbent banks can take on challengers.

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Chris Gledhill

Freelance #FinTech Influencer, Keynote & TEDx Speaker, Writer and Advisor. collaboration@chrisgledhill.com