Design Services for Financial Services
Annual reports, integrated reports, sustainability and climate disclosures, investor relations design, and brand identity for listed banks, asset managers, insurers, family offices, and fintech.
Singapore’s financial services sector operates under one of the most demanding regulatory disclosure regimes in Asia. MAS expectations on climate risk and net-zero transition planning, IFRS S2 alignment from FY2025, multi-jurisdictional regulatory reporting for regional groups, and rating-agency scrutiny across credit and ESG dimensions — these compound into a design brief that few studios are fluent enough to deliver cleanly. Made Good’s Design Collective matches your brief to a partner with prior financial services experience — sector-fluent practitioners who have delivered inside listed banks, asset managers, and insurance groups, and understand the disclosure conventions, regulatory tone, and stakeholder expectations specific to the industry.
What we design for financial services
- Annual and integrated reports — full annual reporting suite including financial statements, governance, risk management, and integrated value-creation narrative
- Sustainability and climate reports — standalone or integrated, aligned with TCFD, IFRS S2, GRI, SASB, and MAS climate-risk expectations
- Pillar 3 disclosures — for banks and significant financial institutions subject to capital adequacy reporting
- Investor presentations and analyst briefings — quarterly and full-year results decks, capital markets day materials, post-results analyst briefings
- IR microsites and results centres — digital companions to the annual report and quarterly disclosure cycle
- Regulatory communications — disclosures, fact sheets, and stakeholder communications for regulatory developments
- Brand identity and repositioning — for digital banking launches, post-merger consolidations, and strategic shifts into wealth, insurance, or sustainable finance
- Multi-language production — across the languages relevant to your regional footprint, with design systems built to be language-neutral
See our full service offering: annual report design, sustainability and ESG report design, corporate presentation design, corporate branding.
Frameworks and standards we design against
- MAS guidelines on climate-related disclosures and environmental risk management
- SGX climate disclosure rules and IFRS S2 — phased mandatory alignment with assurance from FY2025
- TCFD and ISSB standards — climate-related financial disclosures
- GRI Standards and SASB — including industry-specific SASB sectors for commercial banks, investment banking, insurance, and asset management
- UN Principles for Responsible Banking and PRI — for institutions with formal commitments
- EU CSRD and ESRS — for SG entities consolidated into European parent groups
- Singapore Code of Corporate Governance
- BCBS Pillar 3 disclosure standards — for banks subject to capital adequacy reporting
Why financial services design has its own conventions
The brief is shaped by three forces that do not apply equally outside the sector.
Disclosure density. A listed bank’s annual report routinely runs 200 to 400 pages, with audited financial statements, risk management disclosures, capital adequacy tables, and sustainability reporting all needing distinct visual treatment without breaking document coherence. Designing this density legibly — without it collapsing into a wall of grey type — is a craft most studios outside the sector underestimate.
Regulatory tone. Financial services communications carry an implicit voice that has to read as accurate, restrained, and verifiable to regulators, rating agencies, and institutional investors. Marketing flair that works for consumer brands actively undermines credibility in this register. Sector-fluent designers know where to insert visual interest and where to stay quiet.
Multi-stakeholder accountability. The same document has to land with retail customers, institutional investors, sell-side analysts, regulators, rating agencies, and the board — each with different expectations and reading paths through the report. Document architecture has to support all these paths without favouring one at the others’ expense.
Featured work
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Regional bank — integrated annual and sustainability report
Brief: Combine the previously separate annual report and sustainability report into a single integrated report under the IIRC framework, without losing the depth of either. Multi-language production for regional markets.
Approach: A Collective partner studio with prior bank reporting experience designed a two-track navigation system within the document — financial readers and sustainability readers each had a clear path through the report — and built a master template supporting localisation into three languages without breaking layouts. Capitals model and value-creation diagrams were developed as a connected visual system.
Outcome: The integrated format became the bank’s standard, used across multiple subsequent reporting cycles. Production efficiency improved meaningfully versus the previous parallel-publication process.
Asset manager — first IFRS S2-aligned climate disclosure
Brief: Refresh the firm’s annual sustainability report to incorporate IFRS S2-aligned climate-related disclosures, alongside continued GRI and TCFD reporting. Tight production window aligned to the firm’s annual general meeting.
Approach: The partner studio designed a disclosure section structured around the four IFRS S2 pillars, with portfolio-level scenario analysis and financed-emissions data visualised through a connected information design system. Data tables were structured for the assurance provider’s review checklist.
Outcome: Released on schedule with no design-related assurance findings. The disclosure section structure was retained as the firm’s standard template.
Insurance group — repositioning and rebrand
Brief: Reposition a regional insurance group following a strategic shift into sustainable insurance and digital distribution. Existing brand was conservative and no longer matched the audience the group wanted to reach across institutional and retail segments.
Approach: A Collective partner studio with deep financial services brand experience led a six-month engagement: stakeholder research across the group’s markets, a positioning recommendation, an identity system that retained selective equity from the legacy brand while modernising the visual language, and a rollout sequenced over twelve months across digital, environmental, and regulatory communications.
Outcome: Launched on schedule. Internal adoption tracked ahead of the rollout plan; brand recall surveys 12 months post-launch showed measurable improvement in the target audience segments.
About the Design Collective
Made Good’s Design Collective is a curated network of independent design studios and senior practitioners. Financial services work is led by partners with multiple completed reporting cycles inside listed banks, asset managers, and insurance groups, alongside prior in-house experience at financial communications functions. More on how the Collective works →
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If you are scoping the upcoming annual reporting cycle, preparing IFRS S2 alignment, building an IR microsite, repositioning the brand, or commissioning a regulatory communications programme, we would like to hear from you.
Questions before you brief? Email hello@madegooddesigns.com.