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Posted on April 30, 2019

How Banks can Accelerate Financial Inclusion

GATE annual report estimates 2.07 billion customers worldwide will use mobile wallet to make payments or send money in 2019. This is largely due to strong reliance on mobile phones. China is the largest adopter of mobile wallet payments leading with 56%, followed by India, Africa and the middle east. Presently, World bank estimated 2 billion of the world’s population (excluding […]

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Posted on April 3, 2019

Optimizing Security in Financial Services

IBM IBV recently surveyed 500 bank executives and found that only 16% respondents said their infrastructure can detect security breach as they occur while 81% can only detect new patterns after 4 weeks, implying that many financial institutions are struggling to adjust to the changing threat landscape. Additionally, the capacity to connect criminal activities across multiple channels and […]

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Posted on December 17, 2018

Trends in Payment Infrastructure

Ovum recently surveyed 226 bank representatives;, 65% stated that their payment systems require major upgrade or replacement in the next 3 years. The payment landscape around the world is changing due to the need to meet increasing customer demands, domestic and regional level regulation, payment infrastructure changes, value-added service delivery and the potential of revenue generation such […]

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Posted on November 4, 2018

How Financial Services Companies are Tackling Cyber-Fraud

Cyber-criminals continue to evolve with tricks and turns aimed especially at financial transactions. Incidents, like the WannaCry and Petya ransomware scams, also indicated continuous vulnerabilities in worldwide financial online security, costing banks and FIs about USD 360 billion yearly in the last three years, the Global Banking and Finance Review states. The first half of 2018 saw 81 […]

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Posted on October 5, 2018

How FIs can ensure efficient Retail Payment

The Payment landscape in the US is experiencing digital innovations. In a recent Accenture report detailing five important payment trends to keep in view, “about 64 percent of North American consumers plan to use a mobile wallet by 2020—a 39 percent rise in the user base in three years”. Mobile wallets enable financial institutions to provide efficient customer […]

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Posted on August 31, 2018

Transforming the Customer Experience Landscape

Enterprise renovation usually involve putting different systems in place to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness. For instance, a recent report from EY surveyed 250 C-level executives at FIs across the globe, stated that 65% of executive’s enterprise saw increase in revenue, 62% witness improved customer experience and 60% experienced innovative services due to their enterprise […]

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Posted on May 31, 2018

How AI is Transforming Financial Services right now

Financial Services are experiencing AI application in three major areas: Firstly; Machine Learning; to produce propensity models. Banks and insurance companies are putting machine learning on websites or mobile channels for real-time target marketing. ML predict the product propensity of their customers based on their behavioural data in real-time. Secondly, it is applied around natural […]