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Solmar Bank Digital Transformation
A medium growth and strategy case, candidate-led, built for live practice with an AI interviewer that grades like a coach.
- Digital transformation
- candidate-led
- medium
- ~35 min
- 2 exhibits
Our client is the head of distribution at Solmar Bank, one of the largest retail banks in Alveria, a southern European country on the Iberian coast. The bank is over 80 years old and was privatized six years ago; the country is still recovering from a severe banking crisis, and Solmar's capital position remains tight. Online and mobile banking are still marginal in Alveria today, but the client has watched younger customers in other European markets move rapidly to mobile-first banking and believes the shift will eventually arrive at home. He is considering funding a digital-product build-out by closing part of Solmar's physical branch network, and he has asked us whether that is the right move.
What happens when you run it live
Your interviewer holds answers to 5 clarifying questions candidates usually ask, so opening the case correctly gets rewarded. The case unfolds over 5 phases, with 2 exhibits handed to you at the right moments. You structure, do the math out loud, and close with a recommendation. Then you get a graded report across structure, quant, insight, synthesis, and communication, with the specific moments that cost you points. The exhibits, numbers, and answer key stay inside the live session, the way a real interviewer keeps the case packet on their side of the table.
How to approach a growth and strategy case
Growth cases hand you a target (grow revenue, fix a stalled business, monetize a product) and an open field of options. The test is structure under ambiguity: lay out the realistic levers (existing products to existing customers, new products, new segments, new channels, pricing), then prioritize by impact and feasibility rather than listing everything.
These cases often carry a curveball midway: a constraint changes, a competitor moves, or the data contradicts the obvious story. Interviewers are watching how you absorb new information without abandoning structure. A crisp final recommendation with a first move and a risk to watch scores far better than a balanced essay.
Run Solmar Bank Digital Transformation live, free. About 35 minutes, graded in the same sitting.
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