Accenture, ‘Metaverse is an opportunity to be explored also by institutions’

“Before talking about the potential of the Metaverse that banks could explore, I think it is necessary to look at the past and analyze what happened from the point of view of technological innovation. The advent of the Internet takes place in the 1990s and the arrival of mobile phones and social networks belongs to the first decade of the 2000s. Faced with these two great transformations, banks have been observing for some time, until the introduction, in 2010, of the first Internet banking systems and subsequently of the Mobile banking. Now, however, innovations are much faster and in the era of compressed transformation there is no time to stand by and watch “. So Stefano Sperimborgo, Managing Director Accenture and Head of the Practice Technology Strategy and Applied Intelligence, on the sidelines of the ninth edition of the Accenture Banking Conference, the annual appointment dedicated to the CEOs and C-Levels of the main Italian banks that offers a space for reflection and discussion on the sector and outlines the characteristics of the bank in the future, held at the Accenture Customer Innovation Network (Acin). “There is therefore no time to analyze the pioneers of the Metaverse and understand if it can actually be an interesting opportunity – concluded Sperimborgo – I therefore believe that we must analyze the opportunities and bet on them, in this case on the Metaverse, observing with attention to the resulting outcomes and use cases “.