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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:

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:

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:

Goa SCB & NABARD jointly push PSL

NABARD and Goa SCB are strengthening cooperative banking in the state during difficult times:

France gets a taste of Open Banking

Two fintechs have brought the benefits of API banking to France:

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:

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:

Bank customers seek personalization, trust; low interest in novelty

A special report by Accenture analyses the trust and loyalty trends among global banking consumers:

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.

‘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:

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:

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.

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:

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: