WORKING CAPITAL FINANCE AS AN ASSET CLASS

whitePaper | April 18, 2022

Fintechs are maturing and are reshaping the competitive landscape for traditional banks. Partnerships between banks and fintechs can be mutually beneficial and have become increasingly common. Nevertheless, some banks have baulked at this idea, deterred by cultural and technological obstacles that can make partnerships difficult to execute. This is short-sighted. Partnering with fintechs can help banks meet their operational objectives, enhance products and improve customer experience. To maximize the chances of success in these partnerships, banks should pursue certain best practices.

whitePaper | June 15, 2023

Asset managers headquartered in Europe saw their private market assets continue to grow in 2022, albeit more slowly than in previous years, and their total assets under management (AUM) exceeded €2.3 trillion (US$2.4 billion) by the end of the year. Institutional investors remain the region’s major allocators to private assets—European high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) investors are still underexposed to private asset classes, although that is set to change.

whitePaper | August 19, 2022

Financial inclusion has, for far too long, remained confined to corporate social responsibility for Indian banks. This has led to a skewed perception, where financial inclusion is viewed as a social cause and not an economic driving force. India, aiming for a $5-trillion economy by 2025, treads on thin ice if over 190 million adults continue to remain unbanked. The picture grows grimmer as we compare metrics to China – whose bank credit to GDP is six times that of India.

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

Organizations experience pressures to finance growth strategies and improve their companies’ bottom lines while labor costs rise and global inflation soars. The cost of doing business is pinching profit margins across all industries. At the same time, changing customer behaviors and expectations force new business models to emerge.

whitePaper | August 14, 2020

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) fundamentally change the way an organization needs to store its data. These and other regulations tend to have several common elements. First, there is a requirement to protect all data, both from disasters and from cyber-attack. Second, there is a need to organize data in such a way that the organization can meet requirements to retain data for a specific time.

whitePaper | August 24, 2022

India's smartphone boom proved conducive for the rise of digital payments. The government-sanctioned push toward a unified payment interface led to over two billion digital transactions in April 2021, just shy of Rs 5 lakh crore. Correspondingly, this also eased access to short-term, low interest credit - reflected in a 220 % jump in offerings such as buy-now-pay-later (BNPL). BNPL products can potentially help plug the Rs. 25 trillion credit gap in the micro, small and medium (MSME) segment, considered high-risk by legacy lenders.