Multinational Banks in Regulated Markets: Is Financial Integration Desirable?

whitePaper | June 21, 2022

Over the last few years, the payments landscape has massively changed. The use of advanced technologies by traditional and new financial services providers, including fintech, Big Tech and challenger banks, have increased the level of competition and the overall degree of innovation. In the open finance scenario, public administration, corporate and retail customers are enabled to choose among a variety of products, that go beyond traditional banking functionalities.

whitePaper | March 16, 2022

Companies can innovate in any number of ways. They can design new products, embark on new market strategies, rethink company organization. They can innovate by automating processes that used to be done manually, and they can extend that automation to help transform operations beyond finance and accounting.

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

In the modern era of on-demand consumption and tailored customer experiences, the ability to put together banking systems to fit a Financial Institution’s needs is imperative. The continually changing landscape, cuttingedge competition, and rising customer expectations have become a general rule to adapt to practically every industry, including banking and financial services.

whitePaper | July 15, 2022

BNPL has grown rapidly as a lending product for consumers over the last few years. The idea of paying for purchases over time through a few interestfree payments is highly appealing to customers. BNPL firms have rapidly grown revenues as product adoption has increased. Most of this growth is led by fintechs while banks have been trying to play catch-up. Arguably, banks have lagged behind because fintech firms have been able to use their tech advantage to appeal to a wide consumer base and have reduced friction in the customer lending journey. However, industry experts also admit that a lot of this performance disparity may be due to regulatory arbitrage. Large banks face higher scrutiny when compared to fintechs and nonbanking lenders on policies, processes, and analytical strategies.

whitePaper | September 28, 2022

Strong financial controls, a robust banking system and evolving payment technology are vital to the growth of the South African economy. Without the correct frameworks and systems, accessibility to it becomes a significant challenge – for the public and private sector alike.

whitePaper | July 27, 2022

It’s time for financial services providers to stop firefighting external challenges and technology developments and start taking control of their own destiny. That doesn’t mean taking on the full burden of core banking transformation as an individual enterprise, assuming it as a competition point – but instead working together with the wider industry to build a standardized model. From there, financial enterprises will be empowered to compete in the areas that matter – namely, the service and products they offer to customers.