Future of Royal Bank of Canada
CATEGORIES
- Asset Performance
- Innovation assets and pipeline
- Disruption vulnerability
- Company headlines
- Company’s future prospects
DATA ACCESS
The Royal Bank of Canada is a Canadian global financial services company and the biggest bank in Canada. The bank serves over 16 million clients and has active employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank was established in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1864. The company's Institution Number (or bank number) is 003. In Canada, the bank's commercial and personal banking operations are branded as RBC Royal Bank in English and RBC Banque Royale in French and serve approximately ten million customers through its network branches. RBC Bank was the U.S. banking subsidiary with various branches across different states in the Southeast, which served more than a million clients. RBC also has branches across different countries in the Caribbean, which serve more than 16 million customers. RBC Capital Markets is RBC's global corporate and investment banking subsidiary, while the investment brokerage firm is known as RBC Dominion Securities. Investment banking services are also offered through RBC Bank and the concentration is on middle market clients.
Innovation assets and Pipeline
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DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY
Belonging to the financial sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:
*First off, the shrinking cost and increasing computational capacity of artificial intelligence systems will lead to its greater use across a number of applications within the financial world—from AI trading, wealth management, accounting, financial forensics, and more. All regimented or codified tasks and professions will see greater automation, leading to dramatically reduced operating costs and sizeable layoffs of white-collar employees.
*Blockchain technology will be co-opted and integrated into the established banking system, significantly reducing transaction costs and automating complex contract agreements.
*Financial technology (FinTech) companies that operate entirely online and offer specialized and cost-effective services to consumer and business clients will continue to erode the client base of larger institutional banks.
*Physical currency will disappear in much of Asia and Africa first due to each region’s limited exposure to credit card systems and early adoption of internet and mobile payment technologies. Western countries will gradually follow suit. Select financial institutions will act as intermediaries for mobile transactions, but will see increasing competition from tech companies who operate mobile platforms—they will see an opportunity to offer payment and banking services to their mobile users, thereby cutting out traditional banks.
*Growing income inequality throughout the 2020s will lead to an increase in fringe political parties winning elections and encouraging stricter financial regulations.