Here’s how innovation has transformed banking and lending
The effects of technology and the disruptions technology make, manifests itself in clearly perceivable ways. This is very evident in many sectors – in a short span (just eighteen months after its release) Google Maps had knocked out GPS navigation device makers and Amazon and Taobao (Alibaba) have disrupted how consumers shop for goods by moving them to online from offline (O2O). Enterprises are worried about being Uber-ed or Airbnb-ed as new age companies are challenging traditional ways of doing business.
Banking and Lending space have also gone through an amazing level of rapid innovation and disruption starting at the turn on the new millennium. Traditional banking monoliths can no longer feel impervious as they were protected by a myriad of government regulations which used to make it hard for fintech start-ups. Fintech start-ups don’t have to deal with the large legacy systems that drag down big banks and are nimbler and more suited to adapt to global trends and changing regulations. Internet only online banks with meagre to no brick and mortar branch presence have come up and have shaken up the large banks by offering better interest rates for deposits and borrowing than traditional banks. As an added benefit with the ubiquity of eKYC systems and adoption by fintech industry, accounts can now be opened in a matter of minutes and can be ready to transact than days and after an insane amount of paperwork that needed to be filled in earlier days.
There is a snowball effect going on and these innovations are driving further innovations in the fintech space. Fintech industry has accepted new technology trends like blockchain and cryptocurrencies and are coming with novel products that are working on a global trust/digital ID of the customer, more secure, easily auditable and blurring geographic boundaries with ease of international transactions.
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