Banking Frontiers Magazine - November 2020

In this issue

DATA: A 360 Degree Cost Anayasis

No Changes Due To The Lockdown, Thanks To Cloud

Manoj Viswanathan, Director & CEO, Home First Finance, discusses the business scenario of affordable housing finance, technology up-gradation and geographical expansion:

4 mins

Data A 360° Cost Analysis

The trend is data acquisition is getting costlier while storage is becoming affordable. Six technology experts in the BFSI sector discuss how costs of making meaningful data is rising while there are multiple ways of storing the data. The feature is split into 4 parts - trends in cost of data acquisition, cost of storing the data, cost of making the data actionable and cost of securing data:

10+ mins

Hong Kong adopts a measured approach towards open banking

Hong Kong has evolved a 4-phase framework to implement API-based banking in the islands, less regulations being a major difference:

3 mins

An App Based On Blockchain For Distribution Of Bonds

The Philippines plans to be a Silicon Valley for blockchain and DLT development:

3 mins

Payments sector poised for vast changes

The covid pandemic has unprecedented impact on the payments systems across the globe and there is need for wider adoption of technology:

3 mins

Timely intervention saves a unit closing down

In the third case study on how the Telangana Industrial Health Clinic (TIHCL) successfully intervenes and rescues sick MSMEs, we present the case of Deccan Pulverizers:

4 mins

Central Banks Become Net Sellers Of Gold

Central banks became net sellers of gold for first time in a decade in Q3 2020 as the pandemic continues to rage, a study by the GFMD team at Refinitiv has revealed. The study also highlights that gold demand falls by 30% year-on-year and jewelry fabrication remained the worst impacted sector, dragged lower by the economic impacts of the pandemic and record gold prices.

3 mins

Cyberattacks - Weaponizing The Intelligent Edge

Fortinet has unveiled predictions about the threat landscape for 2021 and beyond. These predictions reveal strategies the team anticipates cybercriminals will employ in the near future, along with recommendations that will help defenders prepare to protect against these oncoming attacks.

3 mins

Citizen resilience tames the crisis

Senthilkumar Rajendran, formerly a banker and now a consultant to and investor in startups, shares his insights on the broader aspects of the covid crisis:

3 mins

NBFCs should adopt Analytics, AI, ML for competing

Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India, stresses that technology usage can be far wider in the financial sector:

3 mins

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Banking Frontiers Magazine Description:

Banking Frontiers is a monthly B2B magazine that covers the activities of the finance sector in India. It covers their activities in the areas of Technology, Security, HR, Marketing, Growth, Expansion, Risk Management, Compliance, Tie-ups, etc.The Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, or BFSI, sector is today the most happening sector - be it the excitement of challenging business models, or products and services or mergers and acquisitions or pure organic growth or the response to globalization.