Category: Financial Services

AI The Epicenter of eCommerce

In our todays online shopping how much is artificial intelligence. How artificial intelligence can help retailers to deliver the highly personalized experiences shoppers desire. Ant colony optimization algorithm (To formulate training feed-forward neural networks with ant colony optimization) to obtain the users’ preference information are widely used in todays ecommerce business for comparison-shopping to solve the problem of the user bias’ filtering and learning. The performance improvements are important to both consumers / buyer and sellers / merchants.

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

Blockchain a Succinct Fintech

Blockchain to transform financial services. Disruptive technologies transform traditional industries.  The future computing will have extraordinary capabilities with expected factoring of a 3,000 digit number (40 power to 10) faster than today

Magic Word Pay in Digital Payments

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. The world’s best companies; main from out side of payment / financial domain are rushing (yes rushing) for Digital Transformation for money. Getting inspired by the cutting-edge technologies, innovative products and solutions

Remittances – Game Changer For Economic Development

If just for a minute we can assume every person on this planet has mobile phone, every mobile user has a bank account/wallet, every bank account is created instantly, virally and at no cost, No bank charges exist,

Digital Wallets: Innovation vs Security

Similarly American insurance companies are coming up with insurance technology or Insurtech based on this childhood joke basing business cases on same concept, offering dental insurance and mouth insurance based on data taken from toothbrush tracking. Security & privacy is gone if security does not match the speed and pace. In the start of the post I mentioned technology is good and will happen without a doubt but other critical factors should also come along not only technology.

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.

FinTech & Indonesia

Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan or OJK) a government agency, which regulates and supervises the financial services sector, has finally issued a regulation on financial technology (Fintech) firms that run peer-to-peer (P2P) lending businesses in Indonesia. On the other hand Bitcoin penetrates deeper into Indonesian market, exciting times. In August 2016 in Tangerang, Indonesia OJK was preparing for regulations to support financial technology businesses. Financial regulators

2017 Year of AI & Digital Payments

To draw a rough sketch of exaggerated scenario of how these two technologies (AI & FinTech) may interact with us in the future and what warrants the, perhaps perplexing, 2 super powers. AI’s Control systems are widely used. They govern how a simple thermostat adapts to a target temperature.

CashLess –OR– LessCash

CashLess –OR– LessCash – Journey from a cash-only transactional economy to a cashless economy without a full plan, education, and strategy look only a talk […]

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”.

What is FinTech and where does it Live?

Abstract – A few years back, I had a fascinating discussion about Fintech. Today every 3rd if not 4th profile on LinkedIn is about FinTech Expert. Few days ago someone asked me a million dollar question “What is FinTech?” I was intrigued with such a small, simple question but found it difficult to answer this to a person who is not from those 4 people from linkedin. My simple briefing note to answer this question was, “Fintech is a technical tool to support financial services”, making it simple for everyone on this planet earth along with promoting idea of “Financial Services as a basic right for every human being”. Financial technology, also known as fintech, is an economic industry composed of companies that use technology to make financial services more efficient. Why it is so inherently difficult to define the concept of Fintech, is because definitions change over time. Alternatively, traditional banking organizations are hindered by legacy operating systems, capacity to innovate, agility and technology expertise.

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

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.

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..