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

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 it’s centre of excellence, providing business and technology strategy advisory across the global Banking and Financial Services ecosystem. The firm supports transformation across all elements of the Financial Services business model.

Some of Cedar’s practice areas of expertise in this space include:

Balanced Scorecard, Process Transformation, M&A Integration, Strategy Formulation, Competency Assessment, Core Banking, Transaction Banking, RAPID Readiness Review, Enterprise Architecture, Digital & IT Strategy

Established in 1991, UK-headquartered International-Banking-Systems Intelligence (IBSi) is the world’s only pure-play Financial Technology (traditional and new-age) research, advisory, and media firm, with global coverage, and a 360° portfolio of research analyst firm offerings.

For over 30 years, IBSi’s expert teams have delivered independent, in-depth, actionable insights, with a laser focus on everything Financial Technology, to the global banking, consulting, and technology vendor world.

The firm covers 5,000+ global FinTech vendors in-depth – the most extensive coverage by any analyst firm globally. Its annual iconic Sales League Table is the industry’s benchmark for Financial Technology vendor performance, spanning 100+ participants across 200+ countries and 20+ system types

10,000+ pages of FinTech markets research
5,000+ FinTech profiles
Vendor coverage cross 100+ countries
Trusted by 1,000+ Banks, FinTech vendors and capital markets leaders

Founded in 2017, the Cedar-IBSi FinTech lab has been home to 55+ global FinTech players a “soft-landing” into MENA and Indian Financial Services ecosystem.

The lab is the brainchild of the Cedar Consulting and IBS Intelligence and was created to facilitate partnerships between emerging and established vendors, and tech-buyers at Banks across the region. 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 and conferences deliver 1-1 engagement between FinTech leaders and top banking decision-makers.

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