Banks have been speeding up loan approvals and disbursements to consumers to gain a larger share of the burgeoning retail market. Major banks, including the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, etc., have slashed their lending turnaround times to as little as one day, and in some cases, as little as […]
Digital lending is a tool to enhance financial inclusion. It facilitates provisions to financial service providers (FSPs) to deliver better solutions quicker, cost-efficient, and engaging. Whether financial institutes develop their digital lending capabilities, partner with other organisations, or both, they can adopt this framework to understand digital lending better. But before you delve into the […]
Fintechs are in the news again. Not that they had ever disappeared, but this time on a more ‘revolutionary note.’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recently addressed a leadership forum encouraging Fintechs to empower India’s financial health. India has already embraced the Fintech ecosystem through its adoption of digital payments. With the new year around the […]
The rising number of non-performing assets (NPAs) and fraudulent activities necessitates a closer examination of credit sanctions. According to the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Stability Report (FSR), the gross non-performing assets (GNPAs) percentage of banks could climb to 9.8% by March 2022, up from 7.48% in March 2021, under a baseline scenario. As of […]
Finance is undergoing a significant change. Payments, loans, insurance, and wealth management are all being reshaped by digital technologies, and the COVID-19 has accelerated this trend. As a result, financial technology service providers benefit as banks seek speedy deployment of technology solutions to digitise their physical processes, expediated by COVID-19’s enforced social distancing. Together, these […]
Banking, when it began in 13th century Italy, was personalised service. After the Industrial Revolution, when demand surged, that service became standardised and became available to the masses. The next big disruption in banking came when information technology emerged. Processes became more efficient, and profit margins fattened. Again, however, the change was inside-out, meant to […]
With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), chatbots, among others, you can say automation is everywhere. For example, underwriting used to be a time-consuming and lengthy process for customers who relied on traditional banking and other offline sources for loans. However, with digital platforms now making lending available, underwriting has […]
Big data is transforming the world, and its immense advantages have left no industry untouched. For example, big data analytics has been at the core of online banking’s revolution, becoming an integral part of the biggest banks worldwide. The digital world is generating massive volumes of data. According to a study by IBM, more than […]
In the post-pandemic world, the Fintech business, like any other, is experiencing changes and facing its own set of unique challenges. FinTech adoption doubled every two years, increasing from 16 per cent in 2015 to 64 per cent in 2019 (Fincom Alliance). The increasing need for digital transformation in companies of all sizes led to […]
As per expert estimates, at least 2.5 quintillion bytes (that’s an astonishing 2.5 followed by 18 zeros) of data are generated in the world over every, single, day! And a study in 2018 revealed that about 90% of that data had been created in the previous two years alone. It was also predicted that the […]
