API or Application Programming Interface, when I first heard of this term, I thought it to be some form of magical code that helps in fewer bugs and improves quality. However, after exploring, I got to know how deeply I was wrong. API’s that are part of modern mobile and web application allows third-party apps...Read More
We are seeing technology-driven networks replacing bureaucratically-driven hierarchies,” says VC and futurist Fred Wilson. It seems Big Data buzz has ended, the need of the hour is not on how to gather data but “how to protect it”? How to stop it from being hacked or access by unauthorized third parties. Millennials are maturing not...Read More
In olden days or even a decade back Banking as a service [BaaS] was only taken by trusted entities – BANKS. However, with the technology innovation Banks, Fintech and GAFA [Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon] are tapping onto the opportunity open up by the PSD2 directive to offer BaaS. While customers are still skeptical about...Read More
Sometimes you need to look at things….from another point of view. This is exactly what you need to do when you have to decide between Fintech and TechFin as there is a very thin line which differentiates them from each other. It’s your pick between the innovator v/s the reigning. While, the Innovator is ‘Taking...Read More
Big changes are on the horizon. You may have seen or heard about Open Banking, PSD2, and CMA in the news over the past year. Or, you may be hearing about them for the first time right now. Fortunately, Open Banking is right here and it is going to stay. In the banking sector, the...Read More
Banks and Technology In Part One of our Bank and Technology series we spoke about the technologies needed by Public Sector Banks, Private Sector Banks, and Foreign Banks and in Part two we narrated technologies desirable by Regional Rural Banks [RRB’s] and Cooperative Banks [ State and Urban Cooperative Banks]. Now in the final and...Read More
Banks and Technology In our Part One of the Banks and Technology Series we spoke about the technologies needed by Public Sector Banks, Private Sector Banks, and Foreign Banks. This post is part 2 of the same series, and we would continue our discussion on technologies desirable by Regional Rural Banks [RRB’s] and Cooperative Banks...Read More
What could be the list of financial services for a child? Well, hypothetically he could use all, but necessarily he just needs a bank account/fixed deposits for his savings. Hence, most of the banks offer a minor account that allows parents to open in the same bank. Well, this may be a marketing strategy for...Read More
Artificial Intelligence [AI] storm is here, enterprises working hard to deliver the best of the solutions. Fintech firms are strategizing their approach and research firms calculating the impact and its reach. No one is spared. Be it the big investment banks like Wells Fargo or Morgan Stanley or the fintech start-ups like Numerai and Alphasense...Read More
Countries across the world especially India have envisioned digitalization across all its sectors including the BFSI sector. Accomplishing this mission would involve a series of transformations especially in the banking sector. However, in the last decade, the BFSI sector has taken long strides towards digitization. Online banking started the chain of banking transformations and was...Read More