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October 14, 2021
Shifting from a product-centric view to a #customercentric focus is pivotal to creating a relevant and personalized experience for #banking customers when you have the data on their financial life. Using this data to drive and deliver customer value by guiding them to the next best action is all about dynamically answering one question: What does my customer need? The success of the Bank of America Life Plan and Marcus by Goldman Sachs demonstrates that if you create personalized experiences based on insight with needs-based solutions customers will become engaged and act. The top 5 goals of Life Plan users should come as no surprise. Each of them can easily be addressed with dynamic data-driven predictive analytics to deliver contextual advice, insights and recommendation alerts that provide guidance on their next best action to achieve their goals that satisfy regulatory requirements. It’s one thing to let them add a static goal to their personal financial manager (PFM) and track their progress – most #onlinebanking and #challengerbank apps offer this feature. However, we live in a dynamic world in which inter-related circumstances change – advice, insights and recommendations need to adapt to these endogenous and exogenous changes with multi-dimensional insights to determine the optimal next best action (for example, most never consider tax strategies) – what I refer to as the ‘glue’, that area on a Venn diagram where the circles overlap . As seamless access to first-order data becomes easier for customers, as evidenced by the partnership between Envestnet | Yodlee and Intuit that was announced today. Second-order, or multi-variate data will transform the ability of banks to deliver the ‘glue’ their customers need and will come to expect in the future. Especially with universal coverage and compusory contributions for #401kplan s for all Americans being phased in. Elizabeth Warren #bankinginnovation #bankingtechnology #bankingtech Ron Shevlin Simon Taylor Bill Parsons Dani Fava Walmart JPMorgan Chase & Co. H&R Block Salesforce #banks #experience #embeddedfinance #data #futureofbanking #digitalbanking #challengerbanks Fintech Blueprint
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October 14, 2021
Blockchain based technologies and wallet-based systems are causing a paradigm shift in asset management because they redefine how assets are created, managed, and transferred—ushering in a new era of transparency, efficiency, and accessibility. Digital Money, ie stablecoins and tokenized deposits integrated into digital wallets, will establish the beachhead. Key settlement, liquidity, collateral, trade finance, insurance, distribution, cross-border payment, and identity infrastructure will then be integrated or developed around this new mechanism to transfer value peer-to-peer. Then the assets held in traditional custodial structures, like funds, will migrate rapidly and digital assets will enter their growth phase. There are 6 key elements that will drive driving, namely: 1. Disintermediation Traditional asset management relies on layers of intermediaries (custodians, transfer agents, administrators) and multiple ledgers. Blockchain replaces these with a single decentralized ledgers, wallets and smart contracts, reducing costs and friction 2. Transparency Every transaction is delivered simultaneously to all stakeholder, recorded immutably and can be audited in real time. This builds trust among investors and regulators, especially in complex fund structures. 3. Automation Fund operations like NAV calculation, investor onboarding, and compliance checks can be automated. This reduces human error and accelerates settlement cycles. 4. Liquidity and Accessibility Tokenized assets can be traded 24/7 on global platforms, improving liquidity for traditionally illiquid investments - no more ‘9-to-5’. Fractional ownership and wallet-based infrastructure opens access to retail and underserved markets. 5. Security and Resilience Advanced encryption and decentralized architecture reduce single points of failure. Enable investors to retain self sovereignty of their data. Establish trust without disclosing your personal details. Blockchain mitigates risks of fraud and cyberattacks through tamper-proof records. 6. Interoperability Blockchain enables cross-border asset flows without relying on siloed infrastructure. Wallets composable financial products that can interact across jurisdictions and platforms In the near future, assets will be increasingly recorded on blockchain technologies. The trajectory is clear. Making the most of this paradigm shift, like when share trading went from voice to electronic, will create new market leaders who position themselves strategically today.
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