The Digital Age has turned blind unconnected banking clients into a smart, social and purposeful audience. Some banks have started to evolve in this new environment, using APIs to foster an open, innovation, bottom-up-culture; and some have started to focus on the essential: how to stay relevant and capture the attention of a new generation of users. The winners are those providing superior experience to their users and employees, to keep differentiating in an environment attracting new species -Tech Giants, Telcos, and new species : Neobanks, and Scale Up Fintechs. This presentation proposes a framework to discuss digital transformation as adaptation, evolution and selection of species in the Digital Age. First provided at Apidays.io London, Nov'19