FIs relying on outdated lending technology face competitive disadvantages: higher operational costs, greater credit risk exposure, and diminished customer satisfaction. Corporate borrowers now exhibit a greater willingness to switch lenders, and lending profits remain tight due to credit commoditization. Failure to modernize lending technology reduces profitability, erodes market share, and compromises institutional reputations in an industry where technology-driven innovation has become a critical differentiator.

This report examines how financial institutions (FIs) can transform their corporate credit and lending operations through comprehensive life-cycle management and operational automation. It is based on a Q3 2025 Datos Insights survey of 1,036 midsize and large businesses in North America, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U.K.), and the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, India, Japan, Singapore).
Clients of Datos Insights’ Commercial Banking & Payments service can download this report.
About the Author
Benjamin Nestor
Benjamin Nestor is an Advisor with the Commercial Banking & Payments practice. His topics of coverage supporting the practice center on emerging commercial banking product areas, content management, fintech vendors, ESG, and applied sustainability solutions. Prior to joining Datos Insights, Benjamin spent nearly a decade in higher education as a researcher, teacher, and archivist. He also has a background in...
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Gilles Ubaghs
Gilles Ubaghs is a Strategic Advisor with the Commercial Banking & Payments practice at Datos Insights, where he is focused on business-to-business and commercial payments as well as the role of digital transformation across the enterprise and broader financial services sector. Gilles brings over 15 years of experience in the analysis and financial services space creating a range of syndicated off-the-shelf and...