Category: Banking
Banks Reinventing Banking with Powerful AI
In the bank-led financial sector, banks should prioritize customer-centric practices, financial inclusivity, and enhancing infrastructure to better serve customers through agents, merchants, billers, and remittance partner networks. However, regrettably, this does not seem to be a top priority for them. Banks prioritize high-value transactions over those with just a few dollars.
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Artificial Intelligence Innovation in FinTech
With advancement in technology, artificial intelligence, organisations outside the banking industry diversified and demystified financial services by targeting small & succinct margins in the space. These were organisations servicing millions of customers through broad distribution channels, be they mobile operators, mobile handset manufactures, retailers or on-line merchants. Integrating AI applications, such as IBM Watson and N26 with Siri
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CashLess Payments to Drive LessCash Payments
The elimination of physical cash from economy is feasible is purely a technological perspective or assumption. Our hard earned money and investments disappear into a labyrinth of financial instruments so mysterious that “money” almost becomes more of an idea than a tangible reality.
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Will Banks ever be successful in Mobile Financial Services
To model the Fintech enterprise, its better use a method rather than make things up on the go. A method guarantees results and increases the productivity, predictability, repeatability and reliability of the business modelling and transformation. What would be part of this method though? It is good to have. Most of the FinTech companies wins on the principal of “The ability to relate to people, to inspire and motivate them is what you must ever work on as a leader”.
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FinTech the Champion of “Banking” Services
Despite the proclamations of some visionary Fintech founders, banks aren’t disappearing anytime soon. The engine under the hood of big banks — the compliance and money-transfer systems — are simply too difficult for any start-up to replace, which is why tech plays like Apple Pay are still built on top of existing bank systems and payment rails. To maintain the dominance they’ve enjoyed up to this point, however, banks need a radical redesign of their customer-facing assets. If banks fail to overhaul
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Banking the next billion unbanked
Most of the companies coming into the mobile payments space are actually coming in with little or no experience of the sector and often fail to provide a soulful touch and product to customers. Segmenting customers based on a few simple parameters (like age, potential earnings and spending habits) will therefore ensure that business models are drawn properly and will serve relevant customers.
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FinTech – Mobile Money – Mobile Payments – Banking (Not Bank)
Today’s consumer expects a seamless mobile payment experience; failing to meet those expectations can be devastating to a brand, idea, innovation and eventually the payments industry. Banks in particular will need to move swiftly if they are to take advantage of the opportunities on offer in the global payments business, or risk losing out to nimbler competitors.Although Mobile Money had been designed as a peer-to-peer payment system but it has gone much beyond the basic idea..
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Digitised Bank Payments – Their Struggle Saga with Friend FinTech
MNO’s speed to achieve their goal to standardise, automate, digitise, remove boundaries by brining cross order financial/remittances service in form of payments, cash, airtime, paperless and online. At the same time banks are still in their canteens with their coffee mugs without any sign of worry but in reality all African banks face tough challenges from MNO’s & Fintech players.
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FinTech – A True Fairytale
Almost all players who entered into payments in arena of FinTech domain are actually coming out of this game park with zero or no knowledge. This is giving too much innovation to put idea on table but takes longer to make it reality. Technical companies entering financial domain and making it interesting by doing technical integration, or “fintegration”, of fintech services, the latter interfacing directly to bank customers for
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Payments – Cash, Internet, Plastic, Mobile and Paper
This post was originally published on 26-March-2015 on Linkedin. Click here to read. This article explores the different mode of payments and the advantages of using […]
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Can Banks ever win Mobile Payments/Money Game?
Accessibility is a critical success factor for any service. The role of informal institutions in providing financial services to the members of the community, and concludes by highlighting the opportunities these are present for formal financial service providers but in order to ensure accessibility of banking services, a bank has to have a wide branch network of fully branded brick and mortar marble banking halls with all the necessary security systems. The set up costs of these are so high and to recoup the same, the bank has to pass on the cost to the ultimate consumer.
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Payments Instruments – Physical and Virtual
The over-busy pace of change in payment systems – Paper, Online, Plastic, Mobile, eWallets, NFC stickers and Smartwatches, Facebook, Google Wallet, Microsoft; and and and ….. many many more; means that all businesses need to remain alert to the latest trends and developments. They and their customers will almost certainly start paying for goods and services in new ways now and in future. Innovations will continue new ways will continue to change and proliferate as time goes on. Payment is the transfer of an item of value from one party (such as a person or company) to another in exchange for the provision of goods, services, or both, or to fulfill a legal obligation.
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Lets Fight – FinTech vs Strong Banks
Today’s consumer expects a seamless mobile payment experience; failing to meet those expectations can be devastating to a brand, idea, innovation and eventually the payments industry. Banks in particular will need to move swiftly if they are to take advantage of the opportunities on offer in the global payments business, or risk losing out to nimbler competitors.Although Mobile Money had been designed as a peer-to-peer payment system but it has gone much beyond the basic idea..
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Digital Banking Services – Limited for Some
Banks need to take a radical change from their current modus operandi in order to beat MNOs in the field of mobile payments or else take back seat as clerk for reconciliations and accounting units and regulator should allow MFS companies to innovate and bring new solutions and products in no time and make customers life easy, less costly and much faster. I..
