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Banking Frontiers
From Security To Trust - The New Digital Normal
Banking Frontiers, in association with Fortinet, organized a web panel discussion by BFSI CISOs on the growing thrust on trust through security. Edited excerpts:
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January 2021
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Saudi central bank sets the trend in using blockchain
The Saudi Central Bank is giving the lead in making use of blockchain technology for various banking applications:
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January 2021
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Open Banking - Boosting the API Impact
Banking Frontiers brought together BFSI experts for a panel discussion on how APIs are driving open banking and how to manage them effectively. Edited excerpts:
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January 2021
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Narrow Business Focus, Wide Technology Adoption
U GRO Capital’s flagship platform is capable of onboarding of MSME customers completely digitally, with decision in 60 minutes:
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January 2021
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Goa SCB & NABARD jointly push PSL
NABARD and Goa SCB are strengthening cooperative banking in the state during difficult times:
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January 2021
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France gets a taste of Open Banking
Two fintechs have brought the benefits of API banking to France:
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January 2021
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DLT based Cross Border Payments - A POC
Project Aber by SAMA & CBUAE demonstrates viability of DLT as a mechanism for settlement and confirms the technical viability of a single digital currency issued by both central banks:
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January 2021
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Digital gives major push to merchant services
In the third and last part of the 3-part report based on The 2020 McKinsey Global Payments Report, we discuss the prospects of merchant acquiring business in the wake of the pandemic:
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January 2021
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Bank customers seek personalization, trust; low interest in novelty
A special report by Accenture analyses the trust and loyalty trends among global banking consumers:
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January 2021
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The Pandemic Response: R.T.I...
The covid pandemic has made transformation mandatory. We find that the transformation is taking across 3 key dimensions: Restructuring, Technology and Innovation. Banking Frontiers spoke to Chief Operating Officers and Operations Heads of several BFSI organizations to delve deep into R, T and I, and unearthed several interesting insights.
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December 2020
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‘Like Rahul Dravid, defend and play is a motto we follow'
Lulu International Exchange has unveiled innovations and adopted technologies that are driven by customer facing business strategies:
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December 2020
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Richest 100 women in India worth ₹2.72 trillion
‘Kotak Wealth Hurun - Leading Wealthy Women’ report is a data-driven attempt to analyze wealth creation among Indian women:
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December 2020
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Shifting towards conversational interfaces
Manu Lavanya, Director & Chief Operations Officer, Max Life Insurance, speaks about the strategy implemented towards driving the next phase of ‘Deep Digitization’ in the organization.
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December 2020
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Psychometric tests cut attrition, enhance productivity
Meenaa Sharma, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at Reliance Securities, reveals the use of various psychometric assessment tools for hiring and development:
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December 2020
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Digital transformation booster
Ashish Belagali, CEO of Pune based 10Xofy, reveals how low code tools empower the roots of digital transformation:
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December 2020
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Demonstrating exceptional Emotional Intelligence during covid crisis
Emotional Intelligence is the one factor that can help professionals to tide over the present crisis and bring in success:
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December 2020
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AI and BI to drive the Insurance Market
Manav Sachdev, Senior Principal Analyst at Gartner shares new insights about the pluses and minuses of digital approaches in insurance:
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December 2020
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China takes baby steps to bring in open banking
China is slow in experimenting with open banking and banking institutions are wary of the existing privacy and security laws in the country:
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December 2020
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API is the fulcrum of partnership strategy
Ashutosh Singh, Interim CEO & Chief Business Officer at NSDL Payments Bank, discusses the bank’s strategy to carve a business niche and differentiate its services:
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December 2020
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No Changes Due To The Lockdown, Thanks To Cloud
Manoj Viswanathan, Director & CEO, Home First Finance, discusses the business scenario of affordable housing finance, technology up-gradation and geographical expansion:
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November 2020
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An App Based On Blockchain For Distribution Of Bonds
The Philippines plans to be a Silicon Valley for blockchain and DLT development:
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November 2020
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Central Banks Become Net Sellers Of Gold
Central banks became net sellers of gold for first time in a decade in Q3 2020 as the pandemic continues to rage, a study by the GFMD team at Refinitiv has revealed. The study also highlights that gold demand falls by 30% year-on-year and jewelry fabrication remained the worst impacted sector, dragged lower by the economic impacts of the pandemic and record gold prices.
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November 2020
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Cyberattacks - Weaponizing The Intelligent Edge
Fortinet has unveiled predictions about the threat landscape for 2021 and beyond. These predictions reveal strategies the team anticipates cybercriminals will employ in the near future, along with recommendations that will help defenders prepare to protect against these oncoming attacks.
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November 2020
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NBFCs should adopt Analytics, AI, ML for competing
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India, stresses that technology usage can be far wider in the financial sector:
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November 2020
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Payments sector poised for vast changes
The covid pandemic has unprecedented impact on the payments systems across the globe and there is need for wider adoption of technology:
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November 2020
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Data A 360° Cost Analysis
The trend is data acquisition is getting costlier while storage is becoming affordable. Six technology experts in the BFSI sector discuss how costs of making meaningful data is rising while there are multiple ways of storing the data. The feature is split into 4 parts - trends in cost of data acquisition, cost of storing the data, cost of making the data actionable and cost of securing data:
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November 2020
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Hong Kong adopts a measured approach towards open banking
Hong Kong has evolved a 4-phase framework to implement API-based banking in the islands, less regulations being a major difference:
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November 2020
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Timely intervention saves a unit closing down
In the third case study on how the Telangana Industrial Health Clinic (TIHCL) successfully intervenes and rescues sick MSMEs, we present the case of Deccan Pulverizers:
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November 2020
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Citizen resilience tames the crisis
Senthilkumar Rajendran, formerly a banker and now a consultant to and investor in startups, shares his insights on the broader aspects of the covid crisis:
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November 2020
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Bahrain Is Country To Watch For Blockchain
Bahrain, the smallest of the Gulf kingdoms, is poised to become a leader in the use of blockchain technology:
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