Banking has undergone a significant digital transition, which goes far beyond simply switching from a traditional to a digital environment. To evaluate, connect with, and serve their clients, banks and other financial organizations must use a comprehensive digital transformation plan. Understanding client behavior, preferences, and needs is the first step [...]
The banking business is fast evolving, and individual banks that serve retail, commercial, small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMEs), or wealth management firms must make rapid changes to become “digital-first” enterprises. However, making such a transformation entails enormous risks. Banks that get digital transformation wrong risk damaging client relationships and losing market share [...]
Digital banking involves the digitization of all traditional banking products, processes, and activities to serve customers through online channels. Banking that is done through the digital platform without any paperwork like account opening forms, cheques, pay-in slips, and so on is referred to as digital banking. It relies on high-level process [...]
Blockchain technology (within the broader distributed ledger technology umbrella) has received many eyeballs over the last decade, moving beyond the admiration of niche cryptocurrency fanatics and into the mainstream conversation of experts and investors, especially in the banking and financial services space. Whether it is Payments, P&C (Property & casualty) [...]
Core (Centralized Online Real-time Exchange) Banking is a system that enables a group of bank’s branches to perform transactions between accounts in different branches and share the data in real time. According to Gartner, “a core banking system is a back-end system that processes daily banking transactions and posts updates [...]
Global Scenario Major markets, such as the United States of America, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, and Australia, continue to follow the T+2 settlement cycle. However, in different jurisdictions, the talk about moving towards a T+1 settlement cycle is gathering momentum. In February 2021, the United States DTCC (Depository Trust [...]
The Need for Digital Payment Applications to be Migrated to the Cloud: Like all other industries, the payment industry is also evolving. The driving factors for the evolution are cost-reduction, convenience, speed, and security. These are the reasons why cloud systems are being considered for digital payment applications as well. The [...]
Banks have been frontrunners in adopting new technological innovations for the past couple of decades and have taken advantage of everything technology has to offer. Indian-born British inventor John Adrian Shepherd-Barron was inspired by chocolate vending machines and hit upon the idea “if vending machines could dispense chocolates, why couldn’t [...]
It’s an understatement to say that we live in a very different world than a couple of years ago. The pandemic has brought about extraordinary changes in the way customers consume goods. From online shopping for essential goods and services, e-commerce businesses to doing financial transactions instantly, there has [...]
Legacy banking systems are decades behind as digital advancements continue to disrupt the sector. Cloud computing has long since crossed the line from experimental to mainstream. The next question is how quickly companies should adopt and convert to cloud computing. The developments in adjacent technology markets include Digitalization, where 28% [...]
