Cedar is a global strategy and management consulting firm with a 35+ year track record, serving 2,000+ clients worldwide, across multiple industry sectors, including Fortune 500 companies, banks, and SMEs. Since 1985, the firm has delivered integrated support across strategy, process innovation, human capital, and business technology, with a strong focus on Financial Services.

Cedar was formerly part of the US$1 billion Renaissance Worldwide, whose leadership co-created the Balanced Scorecard – the world’s leading strategy deployment and performance management tool.

Cedar’s specialist  Financial Services  practice is its centre of excellence, providing advisory, research, and accelerator solutions across the global banking and financial ecosystem. The firm supports transformation across all elements of the banking business model.

With:

400+ Balanced Scorecard designs across industries​
35+ countries with past & present clients
150+ global banking clients
2,000+ clients served globally including F500, banks & SMEs​

Founded in 1991 and headquartered in the UK, IBS Intelligence (IBSi) is the world’s only pure-play research, advisory, and media firm exclusively focused on Financial Technology — both traditional and new-age.

With over 30 years of global expertise, IBSi delivers independent, in-depth insights across banking, technology, consulting, and the institutional investor landscape, through a comprehensive 360° intelligence portfolio.

IBSi covers 4,500+ FinTech vendors in-depth — the most extensive coverage by any analyst firm globally. Its iconic Sales League Table is the industry’s benchmark for Financial Technology vendor performance, spanning 120+ participants across 200+ countries and 20+ system types.

With:

30+ years of track record
10,000+ pages of FinTech markets research
4,500+ FinTech profiles
Coverage in 100+ countries
Trusted by 850+ banks, tech firms, consultancies & investors

Founded in 2018, Cedar-IBSi FinTech lab has been home to 55+ global technology companies who need a “soft-landing” opportunity into MENA and India. The lab is the brainchild of the Cedar-IBSi group.

Not many know FinTech the way we do. The Lab has mentored global technology companies of different shapes and sizes, each of whom have used membership benefits to learn, partner, and accelerate.

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Precision-led, insight-packed, and flawlessly executed — our global summits deliver high-impact engagement between FinTech leaders and top banking decision-makers.

325+ industry speakers & panellists
~400 banks and financial institutions represented
2,500+ in-person delegates
100+ curated panel discussions across global financial hubs

Where the future of FinTech meets the people shaping it.