full-suite management consulting firm, Cedar assists clients across these areas in an integrated fashion – from strategy formulation, to execution, and implementation. The firm’s heritage includes being part of the former US$1 billion Renaissance Worldwide, whose leadership included the creators of the Balanced Scorecard – the world’s leading strategy deployment and performance management tool used by organizations globally. Our specialist Financial Services practice serves as the firm’s center of excellence, and offers innovative advisory, research, and accelerator capabilities to the players in the global Financial Services ecosystem, covering all aspects of their business models. Cedar’s group unit, UK-headquartered IBS Intelligence, is a leading global pure-play financial technology research, news analysis, and advisory firm with clients across the financial services universe. For more than 30 years, IBS Intelligence has been the definitive source for independent in-depth analysis of global financial technology markets. IBSI’s annual Sales League Table (SLT) is considered the global industry barometer ranking leading banking technology suppliers globally. The group also runs Cypress, a business intelligence unit that provides innovative analytical solutions to clients across industries, and the CedarIBSI FinTech Lab, an accelerator in the heart of Dubai Internet City, that aims to facilitate collaboration and innovation between global financial technology players and banks in the GCC region.