The cover story titled 'SME Banking: From Problem to Opportunity’ — SMEs has taken a severe hit owing to the #COVID19 #pandemic. The impact has cascaded down to banks and NBFCs. Banking Frontiers in the latest issue has interviewed 9 BFSI organizations to understand their latest response. The findings are narrated in 6  parts.  (i) Impact on SMEs & Response by Lenders (ii) Analyzing the Impact - Sectors & Geographies (ii) Champion Channels during Lockdown (iv) Innovative Responses by Lenders (v) Getting Serious about Data (vi) Technology-assisted interactions imminent.

Issue Highlights: Recently the RBI advocated digital mode for payments and other financial services, especially through mobile applications to enforce social distancing. Banking Frontiers carried out a study to understand (i) new mobile application features and strategies during lockdown (ii) usage pattern & promotions and (iii) technology integration. The findings are narrated in 3 different articles:

COVID-19: Impact, Challenges & New Opportunities for BFSI

BNP Paribas Transaction Banking   
Design Thinking  
IT Initiatives @ SIB  
SBI Card

Welcome to the February 2020 issue of Banking Frontiers.
Given the explosion of the fintech sector, the number of IT companies that CIOs, CDOs, CMOs and other CXOs are meeting is going up by leaps and bounds. But many a times, these presentations do not leave a favorable impression, finds our cover story. Banking Frontiers held its annual Finnoviti & Technology Awards....see the winners receiving their trophies in the issue. Also see other stories on boosting trust, financial inclusion strategy, global NPA scenario, digital lending process, etc.
Happy reading.

The spread of pension
Last-mile financial inclusion
Customer centricity @ Shriram Life
Market Research

Transaction banking @ Yes Bank  
Virtual assistants
Liberty General Insurance 
Samasta Microfinance

 Transformation @ Karnataka Bank  
Digital, Phygital 
BFSI use of Media 
Vibrant Goa

Insurance companies in India are waking up to the unfolding risks of various types - cyber risks, reputation risks, natural disaster risks - and they are now strategizing how to handle the complexity. The cover story in the October issue is on the risk perspectives of insurance company executives.
The issue also contains interaction with a senior cooperative banker, who deciphers the scam that has hit PMC Bank, a review of Sibos 2019 at London, a new digital strategy that Bank of India has evolved and the efforts Aviva Life Insurance is making claims settlement a different experience for its customers. These plus regular columns.

Data, Automation, and Talent are driving today's ecosystems throughout the world. On one side we have our legacy systems dragging us back from the expected transformation and on another side we have our tech-experts riding through the legacy barriers and charging up the ecosystem to rise up to the next level. Banking Frontier's September issue of 2019 brings up new happenings in the BFSI sector with respect to key topics like Open Banking, HR & NBFCs, HR & Digitization, 
Gig economy, Making banking better, Digital sales and Credit projections in Goa with respect to the FCBA Awards on 18th and 19th September 2019.

This month's edition focuses upon the macro view of the leaders in BFSI on open banking. While open banking is creating a buzz in Europe and several countries, bankers in India are curious to know the progress and the prospects. APIs are today heralding what is described as open banking, which is enabling third-party developers to build apps and services around more traditional banking and financial services. This issue covers the thoughts of Indian BFSI technologists on what good or bad can open banking bring upon to the sector.

Banking Frontiers is a premium magazine read by heads and decision makers from the Technology and Business domains. The financial sector is one industry that observes various regulations, and some stiff competition from industry peers. As a magazine, our focus is to ensure information dissemination to keep readers abreast of the industry happenings and thereby help them stay competitive. Banking Frontiers’ audience profile includes the PSU, Enterprise, Co-op and Foreign Banks. Our readership profile in other sectors of BFSI includes Insurance and the Non-Banking Financial segments. This issue covers the luminaries in the BFSI sector who have adopted cyber insurance and have safeguarded themselves form tonnes of risks.

Fintechs in Canada 
DCCBs - Digital Transformation  
Mortgage Loans - Britain 
Wilful Defaulters .

Happiness@Work .
Use of Big Data 
Tokenization of cards

The Banking Frontiers April issue is out now, this issue has featured a cover story on next level of BFSI marketing, CEO’s perspectives on transformations in the BFSI industry, RBL Bank strategies to target the MSME’s in India and outcomes of the merger of 3 NBFC categories.

MSME Banking: Thriving on enriched data
 SocGen’s BrainsWave 2019  
4 unique fintechs 
Shriram General Insurance 
 EShakti

Risk Management for the Digital Economy 
Is your PASSWORD ultra secure – that’s a new risk
Private banks to benefit from growth opportunities
ATMs & the  Economics of Compliance
Banking - a combination  of trust & technology

Japan sees restrained fintech activities
Fintechs:The Maturing Visage
Canara HSBC OBC life aims for  1 mn customers by 2020 

SIBOS 2018: Open banking - What role for banks?
Philippines - a fertile ground  for blockchain & crypto currency
Challengers  Strategies 2019 

CISOs face vendor delivery gaps despite rising IS budgets
Product simplification @ Future Generali Life Insurance
P&SB; takes ‘job family’ approach to training
Sandboxes empowering Fintechs in Malaysia
HDFC ERGO combines technology & innovation to outpace competition

Digital Next @ HDFC Bank
Aim is to ‘embed the bank in a customer’s journey’
APAC - building a best-in-class financial services
Equitas SFB is getting digital-ready
Aavas Financiers scales up technology investments

Banking on 9 pillars for target half trillion biz
Gramin Bank of Aryavart to add more branches, BCs
A fund of funds in Bahrain to promote fintechs
Voice is the new digital at Bajaj Allianz

Fund-raising for NBFCs
Karnataka Bank’s total business crosses `1 trillion
New legislations give better options for ARCs
IDBI Bank turns sharply towards retail lending
Jordan slowly building a fintech ecosystem

India getting GDPR Ready
Wealth of HNWIs cross  all-time high
A NBFC to take care of MSEs in manufacturing sector
Biz2Credit, an exclusive finance platform for SMEs
AIIB’s $200 mn investment in NIIF

Meeting the aspirations of rural India
Female-male attrition rate in BoI is 1:3
811 for seamless customer experience 
Manappuram Finance looks beyond gold loans
YES Bank aims for 40% retail book by 2020

A new strategy for ATM expansion
LVB to strengthen its retail business
Slow start for fintechs in Japan
AI already in the realm of reality 
AI powered robo spins money for Motilal Oswal

Affordable Housing becoming  mainstay for HFCs
DBS Bank - innovation is part of the culture
Singapore leads the way in promoting fintechs
Network, business improve for banks in Maharashtra
Integrity due diligence a must exercise

Digital Transformation
Fintechs shake up the market 
Kenya - Mobile banking leads the way
SBI General Insurance spreads its wings

Health insurers preparing for wearables
Paymint platform boon  for corporates
For Shriram Life Insurance, focus is aam aadmi
APIs are the New Normal 
SVC Bank aims for `25,000 cr business mix

Nascent AI heading towards Cognification
Breakthrough innovations transform BFSI companies 
A pragmatic legislation
BoB, Punjab & Sind Bank expanding e-lobbies
National Academic Depository is now operational 

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Banking Frontiers is a monthly B2B magazine that covers the activities of the finance sector in India. It covers their activities in the areas of Technology, Security, HR, Marketing, Growth, Expansion, Risk Management, Compliance, Tie-ups, etc.The Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, or BFSI, sector is today the most happening sector - be it the excitement of challenging business models, or products and services or mergers and acquisitions or pure organic growth or the response to globalization.

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