Financial Innovation Spotlight – March 2025 edition

Digital Reinvention
27/03/2025Article
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Boris Plantier

Qorus

Head of Content & Awards

Banks, insurers and fintechs are innovating all over the world. Among the financial services companies making waves with intriguing new projects, this month we feature Burbank, KasikornBank, ING Spain, CIMB Bank Berhad and Discovery Vitality.

Whether it's offering a more secure online payment solution, a platform dedicated to managing small and medium-sized hotels, a tool for calculating customers’ environmental impact, opening a golf lounge for VIP customers, or enhancing fleet safety through behavioral science, here are the five innovations that caught our eye in the financial services sector over the past month.

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