Sometimes it’s instructive to consider circumstances completely outside of one’s immediate environment to appreciate what’s happening here at home.

In the case of bank technology trends, it is striking just how familiar what’s going on in Europe seems. In some ways it mirrors what’s going on in the U.S.

Digitization, disruptive technologies, payments trends, and outright challenges from nonbank institutions ought to sound familiar to U.S. bankers—and those are at least some of the trends Europeans face…

… at least, according to some recent notices and analyses, admittedly selected somewhat at random, but nonetheless a snapshot of what’s going on with our neighbors across the ocean.