Co-published Feb 22 Absa Bank infused a new sense of ownership and growth after split with Barclays group Absa Bank is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 42,000 t... 20573
Co-published Feb 22 StanChart Ghana's ‘SC Mobile’ digital bank opens new revenue streams Standard Chartered Ghana (StanChart Ghana) operates as a full scale banking player in Ghana deriving more than 30% of its bank revenue from retail ... 10029
Research Note Feb 22 New digital entrants face off with banks in Taiwan’s retail banking market Current digital banks run by commercial banks struggle to gain scale and new entries this year will face a market tightly held by commercial... 14680
News Analysis Feb 22 Financial health top fear in Asia amid COVID-19 spread Financial security is at the top of worries of 60% of Asians amid the COVID-19 outbreak Respondents expect companies ... 6377
Research Note Feb 22 Real-time retail payment systems in Thailand and India experience rapid growth Beyond full interoperability, additional service features plus extension to SMEs and waiving of fees were proven to drive the adoption o... 11391
Research Note Feb 22 eKYC in emerging markets opens new avenues for growth New entries are taking advantage of eKYC rules for current accounts as most incumbents ignored major frictions and customer pain points ... 16583
Research Note Feb 22 Branch decline continues across markets in the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa In the debate over the role and future of bank branches, ultimately the only opinion that counts is the consumer’s. Customers make decisions on p... 7483
Research Note Feb 22 Vietnam’s retail loan market to reach $145 billion by 2020 Industry retail loan growth will continue at 18% to 20% annually in 2019 and 2020 with alternative lending and P2P will contribute 7% to... 22345
Datafiles Feb 22 Banks continue to hold the commercial strings in Vietnam’s rapidly developing payments landscape The industry is shifting from traditional payment channels to mobile point of sales (mPOS), QR code payments and e-commerce albeit at a st... 10874
Current News Feb 22 LINE aims to realise its financial services ambitions with ‘Life on LINE’ LINE has currently around 187 million monthly active users on a global scale. Globally, registered payment users grew... 6864
News Analysis Feb 22 NuBank one of the fastest growing digital banks in South America NuBank on its way to become the most powerful digital FI in South America and has outperformed some of the fastest growing digit... 10210
Datafiles Feb 22 Regional and digital banks gained the most from Australia's banking royal commission inquiry The past 12 months have been a turning point for Australian banks. A regulatory crackdown in the aftermath of the banking royal commission’s find... 9136
Research Note Feb 22 Number of digital platform outages in Australia rose sharply in 2018 Half of the number of service disruptions in 2018 were to mobile and online banking channels. Number of incidences ro... 4296
Datafiles Feb 22 Will Australian consumers ditch their big bank relationships in the face of new digital banks? The largest Australian banks have built powerful digital banking platforms that compensate the repercussions from the banking crisis and... 8642
Case Study Feb 22 How sustainable is the e-wallet business in the Philippines? Current e-wallet framework targets the banked population and does not help financial inclusion No clear path to profi... 33270
Interview Feb 22 Liquid Group’s Jeremy Tan: “Payments is a huge industry, big platforms know the prize is worth the fight” The industry has not seen the end of more digital apps and platforms joining the fray in mobile payments. Non-ban... 8175
Research Note Feb 22 Leading banks narrow digital onboarding gap in 2019 Market differentiation will focus on the customer onboarding journey and data-driven engagement right after sign-up. ... 11937
Interview Feb 22 LINE Pay’s Ko: "We aim to be part of a world's leading smart portal" Getting into the payments business is part of a bigger plan to get into financial services May reach the 50 million r... 10893
Interviews Feb 22 Ripple’s Gupta: “There is a significant amount of movement from high street banks interested in the network.” Globally, it took Ripple two years to acquire the first 100 customers but it took only one year to acquire the next 100. Expandi... 46549
Interviews Feb 22 Standard Chartered's Gorriz and Kundu: "Delivering digital solutions in 5 seconds" Standard Chartered Bank is focusing its digital solutions on the customer segment of one The customer journey provides the framewo... 5767
