Digital transformation booster

Ashish Belagali, CEO of Pune based 10Xofy, reveals how low code tools empower the roots of digital transformation:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

An App Based On Blockchain For Distribution Of Bonds

The Philippines plans to be a Silicon Valley for blockchain and DLT development:

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.

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.

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

UAE Is Readying To Adopt Open Banking

While a majority of banks in the UAE is keen to introduce open banking, Emirates NDB has already taken a plunge:

3D Economy Data, Digital & Disruption

Banking Frontiers, in association with Snowflake, organized a web panel discussion by experts on the transformative role of data.

Insurtech - the way forward

Technology experts from the insurance industry discuss association and collaboration with insurtech companies at Technoviti 2020:

Microfinance Industry - Insights & Trends

Leading microfinance experts discuss the current scenario of micro-lending business in India in a web panel discussion.

PSU Banking 2.0: Merge & Surge

In the second in a series of web panel discussions organized by Banking Frontiers on the themes of amalgamation and lockdown, senior executives of public sector banks share new insights.

Equity Broking Transformation in India

Digital brokers like Zerodha, Upstox and 5 Paisa are gaining exponential market share at the expense of the full-service legacy brokers, focusing on millennials who have a larger risk appetite than traditional investors.

Gayatri Bank to adopt BCs, AePS, UPI, Video KYC

Capex drives growth and modernization:

DEFINING A MARKETING GENIUS

Banking Frontiers asked 10 BFSI CMOs about their definition of marketing genius. And their views are featured here, dividing them into four parts - (i) definition, (ii) importance of awards & media coverage, (iii) educational background required to be a good marketer, (iv) common marketing errors:

Changing Landscape of Mortgages Industry

Migrant homecoming is revving up native town economies:

Heath ID: The Next Digital Frontier

Security and privacy are built into the design and development of the APIs:

Mobile App For Agri Recoveries

Bank of Baroda’s digital platform ‘Baroda Kisan’ caters to numerous requirements of farmers and also provide crop related inputs:

7 Steps To Secure Video Conferences

Video conferencing tools like Zoom, WebEx, Microsoft Teams and Hangouts can make communication easy and simple. Secure virtual workplaces are the future of work and banks will have to evaluate the same in future.

CIOs & CTOs: NEW AVATARS

The roles and responsibilities of CIOs & CTOs have transformed dramatically. From a life of pure technology focus spent in airconditioned rooms, they now inhabit a hyper-complex landscape comprising business, risk, compliance, security, collaboration, business continuity, WFH and much more. Banking Frontiers presents their new avatar in this 7-part cover story:

SME Health Diagnosis & Cure

The Telangana Industrial Health Clinic restores sick MSMEs to prime of health: