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Financial Services Review | Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Intaking fintech solutions opens up seamless advantages for businesses in various integrated sectors like cryptocurrency, AI chatbots, open banking and insurtech.
FREMONT, CA: Financial technology is often applied to varied innovations like transaction processing in businesses, be they the invention of digital money or double-entry bookkeeping. A digital revolution in the global space has transformed every possible sector, and fintech is no exception. Fintech processes are deployed daily among individuals—transferring money from a debit account, checking accounts via Android mobiles, sending money using online transaction applications, and managing investments through online brokers.
Various researchers from time to time elucidate that consumers often deploy two or more fintech services on a daily routine, thereby, instigating the importance of fintech globally. Hence, innovation frontiers in the fintech domain are bringing startups into the arena to challenge and transform traditional financial service providers for faster and better service. One such testamental approach is eliminating the usage of credit cards during online shopping processes by enabling secure, immediate, and short-term loans for consumer purchases.
Several other fintech leaders are seeking effective opportunities to streamline the home mortgage process through digital-only offerings, thus rewarding users with a verified pre-approval letter in real time. Linking home improvement borrowers with banks saves consumers from reaching local lenders, saving them interest via zero-interest promotional periods. Alongside this, proposing efficient options like customers reaching out to local banks, unregulated lenders, and microfinance institutions is emerging as an effective fintech solution.
With technology-driven solutions expanding across the horizon, the fintech sector is transforming on a rapid scale via seamless technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), predictive behavioural analytics, and data-driven marketing. For instance, learning applications open up formidable advantages like engaging users in learning games for automation, unconscious spending, and making better decisions, in addition to learning the mere habits of users.
The fintech sector often functions via automated customer service technology via chatbots and AI interfaces, thereby assisting customers with basic tasks and reducing staffing costs effectively. Detecting fraud and taking timely actions helps in diminishing the wastage of resources and money, where fintech leverages information on payment history in flagging transactions outside norms to fight fraud and hacking.
Fintech startups receive nearly billions of dollars in venture funding each year, allowing incumbent firms in the sector to expand their fintech offerings. Hence, technology leaders in the fintech space are seeking effective opportunities in various integrated arenas like cryptocurrencies, digital tokens, and cash, functioning per blockchain technology, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) to maintain records on computer networks, yet with no central ledger. Similarly, open banking, insurtech, regtech, cybersecurity, AI-chatbots, and robo-advisors are several other potential arenas where fintech innovation is likely to transform the space.
