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Indian banks have been quick to embrace new technologies

Fiinews by Fiinews
January 18, 2021
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Mobile payment users shifting from e-wallet to UPI

Many banks in India have been quick to embrace new technologies to cater to a vast and growing, young, tech-savvy customer base, according to a report by S&P Global Ratings .

“We believe India’s top-tier private-sector banks and State Bank of India (SBI) are well-placed to deal with tech disruptions, given their dominant market positions and continued investments in technology,” S&P Global Ratings credit analyst Deepali Seth-Chhabria said in the reportreport, titled “Tech Disruption In Retail Banking: Top-Tier India Banks Lead The Change”.

Some non-bank financial companies (NBFCs) have made considerable traction in having technology-led banking solutions omnipresent in their core business models. In addition, financial institutions use artificial intelligence and machine learning not only in loan underwriting, but also customer onboarding, cross-selling, servicing, and fraud management.

The banking system’s low profitability and weak asset quality present some difficulties in significantly boosting digitalization for several state-owned banks and smaller private-sector banks. Although we believe the industry’s competitive dynamics will continue to evolve, new entrants have failed to make their mark so far. Payment banks in India have less than 1% of the deposit market share and remain unprofitable; restrictive licenses render the model rather unviable.

Big tech companies have also entered the industry, but they have not been able to encroach into the mainstays of the incumbent banks, namely lending and deposits, said the report released 18 Jan 2021.

Overall, India’s digital disruption poses a relatively low risk to its top-tier banks’ longstanding market position, according to the report.

COVID-19 restrictions have been a boost for India’s major digital payment system, Unified Payment Interface (UPI). The value of transactions processed via the UPI almost doubled in June to November 2020 from the same period a year ago. We expect this shift in consumer preferences to remain.

Rising smartphone penetration, increasing internet connectivity, and the young, tech-savvy demographic segment present vast opportunities in India for existing banks and new players, added the report on digital disruption in the country.

The Reserve Bank of India and the government have also been pivotal in laying the foundation and raising the bar for development of fintech in the country, noted the report.

Comparatively, China’s use of digital payment is quite different from India’s. Ant Financial’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd’s WeChat Pay dominate mobile payments in China, causing deposit leakage from banks as money gets transferred out of the banking system to these wallets.

In India, mobile payment users are shifting away from e-wallets toward UPI, which dominated the payments market with 51% share in the total number of transactions in October 2020. Unlike e-wallets, UPI does not lead to deposits moving out of the banking system. That allows India’s banking system to maintain an edge in the payment system, observed the report.

Collaborations between traditional banks in India and fintech companies are likely to increase. “At the same time, we believe traditional banks require considerable investments to upgrade legacy systems,” said the report. #banking #digital #technology #fintech #economy /fiinews.com

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