In a conversation with Babu Nair, Founder and MD, Financial Technology Frontiers, Casparus Kromhout, MD & CEO, Shriram Life Insurance shares the vision of focused business strategies adopted by the company to reach out to the rural sector. He also shares how the organization is functioning on a new ecosystem for building growth, product innovation, and adoption of the latest technology to improve the Customer Experience. He throws light on tie-up with insurtech for delivering faster business and leapfrogging businesses to newer levels.
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Singaporeans Feeling The Heat in Necessities Spending, Retirement Plans: Study
Eight in 10 Singaporeans said that their personal financial situations had been affected somewhat or to a large extent in the past one year due to inflation. The key areas impacted by inflation are spending on necessities (71%), retirement plans (34%), and investments (26%).
Testimonial By Alain Raes | FinTech Frontiers Live
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Simplifying Global Payments | FinTech Frontiers Live
Alain Raes, Founding partner and CCO of IPID, an authority in global payments with his lineage as CBO of Swift, shares with Babu Nair, the Founder and MD of Banking Frontiers and Financial Technology Frontiers, his insights on the bottlenecks in Global Payments. He speaks about how international B2B remittances and transaction banking can be integrated with better compliance and accelerated using innovations, resulting in a better customer experience. He also talked about how the involvement of governments and regulations of several nations complicate international payments and how cooperation with regulators in streamlining compliance will work in catapulting Global Payments to newer levels of experience and growth. Keep Watching!
Nordic Digital Bank Lunar Has Unique Value Propositions
Lunar is a Scandinavian digital bank, described as an industry leader in the Nordic region. Unlike many other neobanks, it is a fully-regulated and licensed bank in Sweden, Denmark and Norway with a client base of 500,000 and deposits exceeding Euro 1.3 billion. Among its offerings are checking and deposit accounts, loans and other credit services like buy now, pay later, and stocks, fund and ETF investing.
HSBC Set To Get More Agile and Nimble – A Future Ready Bank
HSBC Holdings has reported that its profit after tax increased by $0.8 billion to $9.2 billion; profit before tax decreased by $1.7 billion to $9.2 billion and revenue decreased marginally to $25.2 billion, mainly due to foreign currency translation impacts and 1H22 losses on planned business disposals.
ABS Unveils Template for Banks on Key Environmental Risk Issues
The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) unveils ABS Environmental Risk Questionnaire (ERQ), the first-ever industry-standard template that sets a consistent baseline for banks in Singapore to engage their corporate clients on environmental risk issues, gather data points, and identify opportunities to finance the transition to a low carbon economy.
Lloyds Banking Group Partners with Innovation Sandbox
Innovation Sandbox is designed to will help the Lloyds banking group to bring a variety of fintech opportunities. This partnership will help through the design and test cycle more efficiently, supporting a rich ecosystem of fintechs and reducing time-to-market.