Have you ever thought about how you can make payments for a movie without standing in line or pay utility bills without stepping out of your home via Paytm or Google Pay? Yes, you can name many applications that make instant payments happen. But how is this happening? How [...]
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of short-term financing provided to consumers to purchase instantly and pay at a future date. The process involves multiple players, such as consumers, financiers, and merchants. The financier carries out a soft credit check on the customer and returns a decision within seconds. Financiers [...]
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 [...]
Even before the unprecedented times of COVID-19, disruption was the name of the game in the Banking, Financial, & Insurance services industries. Whether it be the well-established wave of digital transformation, ever-increasing customer expectations, evolving regulations or the proliferation of competition from the new entrants of digital-native challengers, there was [...]
Before we get there, we need to understand what is causing the whole turmoil and disruption in the banking industry. Yes, you guessed it right. It is FinTech. But what really is FinTech? Per Wiki, ‘Financial technology, also known as FinTech, is an economic industry composed of companies that use technology [...]
