{"id":11647,"date":"2021-01-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/28\/gbg-six-predictions-for-the-financial-services-and-fraud-landscape-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-01-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T01:00:00","slug":"gbg-six-predictions-for-the-financial-services-and-fraud-landscape-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/28\/gbg-six-predictions-for-the-financial-services-and-fraud-landscape-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"GBG: Six predictions for the financial services and fraud landscape in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               By Dev Dhiman, Managing Director of GBG Asia Pacific                            <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a028 January 2021 &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>2020 catapulted financial institutions forward in their&#13;<br \/>\nimplementation and optimisation of technology. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.technologyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Digital-acceleration-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-Asia-Pacific_111520.pdf\">71%&#13;<br \/>\nof Asia Pacific (APAC) technology decision-makers<\/a> the pandemic has caused&#13;<br \/>\ntheir organisations to step up digital transformation, while <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/apac\/2020\/12\/07\/asia-pacific-financial-services-industry-organizations-maturity-in-adopting-innovation-has-ensured-resilience-amid-the-pandemic-microsoft-study\/\">70%&#13;<br \/>\nof financial services organisations in APAC<\/a> \u00a0believe innovation is now a &#8220;must&#8221;, reflecting&#13;<br \/>\nthe impact of COVID-19 in shifting consumers and businesses to being digital-first.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>When looking ahead at how financial institutions (FIs)&#13;<br \/>\nwill be impacted by these trends in 2021, there are six key ways in which FIs&#13;<br \/>\nare expected to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>1. COVID-19 drove a dichotomy in fraud technology&#13;<br \/>\ninvestment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>There is a distinct difference in investment between&#13;<br \/>\nFIs in countries still heavily impacted by COVID-19, and those in the stages of&#13;<br \/>\nemerging from the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>For countries that have yet to enter into a stable&#13;<br \/>\nrecovery period, FIs will be making a more conservative approach to overall investment&#13;<br \/>\nand sustaining cashflow, but deprioritising investments in fraud technology&#13;<br \/>\ncould leave them unprepared for the potential rise in financial crime and fraud&#13;<br \/>\nduring financial hardship. FIs in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the&#13;<br \/>\nPhilippines, which are seeing reinstatement or continued lockdowns in the&#13;<br \/>\ncountry, may become even more hard-pressed for stronger fraud prevention&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology to combat an increase in financial crime, as basic fraud systems may&#13;<br \/>\nnot adequately protect them against emerging and complex fraud typologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>For FIs in Asia Pacific emerging from or preparing to emerge from&#13;<br \/>\nthe pandemic, such as Singapore, Australia, Vietnam, and Taiwan, while&#13;<br \/>\nconfidence will be relatively higher, spending will be cautious, as maintaining&#13;<br \/>\nsubstantial cashflow will remain a priority. Rather than overhauling fraud and&#13;<br \/>\ncompliance systems, FIs would likely choose to recalibrate, update and optimise&#13;<br \/>\ntheir digital onboarding as well as payments and transaction monitoring&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology. Investments would be specific to address prominent gaps and data&#13;<br \/>\nintelligence. Alternative data to onboard more challenging cohorts, creating&#13;<br \/>\nreadiness against cyber endpoint threats, and relationship analysis may be&#13;<br \/>\nconsidered to address acquisition growth strategy and growing volumes and&#13;<br \/>\ncomplexity of online fraud attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>2. Digital customer experience expectations will&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue to skyrocket<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Global ecommerce powerhouses like Alibaba and Amazon&#13;<br \/>\nand has normalised expectations around customer experience (CX) including same-day&#13;<br \/>\ndelivery services, real-time shipping tracking, and more, in turn significantly&#13;<br \/>\nimpacting customers&#8217; CX standards for FIs. A <a href=\"https:\/\/thefintechtimes.com\/two-thirds-of-customers-say-one-bad-experience-dilutes-brand-loyalty-according-to-talkdesk-research\/\">recent&#13;<br \/>\nstudy<\/a> showed seven in 10 customers demonstrated a deeper loyalty to&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial services and insurance companies that heavily invest in CX.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the industry is already seeing FIs and fintechs race to&#13;<br \/>\ndeliver instantaneous services through new financial products, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbgplc.com\/apac\/future-proofing-fraud-prevention-in-digital-channels\/\">GBG&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nlatest research<\/a> finding 31% of FIs in APAC planning to offer instant bank&#13;<br \/>\naccounts and instant loans, 29% planning to offer instant credit cards, and 22%&#13;<br \/>\nplanning to offer user voice activated fund transfers and bill payments. To&#13;<br \/>\ntake CX to the next level, there is a probability that the financial services&#13;<br \/>\nsector will explore replicating successes from other industries, such as retail&#13;<br \/>\nbusinesses that have effectively used augmented reality (AR) and virtual&#13;<br \/>\nreality (VR) technologies to re-create in-store experiences, which could be&#13;<br \/>\nused by banks to create virtual in-branch experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>3. Cross-vertical collaboration and consumer data&#13;<br \/>\ndrill-down are re-shaping digitalisation standards <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Collaborations amongst major enterprises in the digital banking&#13;<br \/>\nspace demonstrated the investment across seemingly unlikely industries in&#13;<br \/>\nworking together to effectively serve customers at scale. Last year, for&#13;<br \/>\nexample, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finextra.com\/pressarticle\/81773\/standard-chartered-unveils-mox-brand-for-new-hong-kong-virtual-bank\">Trip.com&#13;<br \/>\nGroup partnered<\/a> with Standard Chartered, PCCW and HKT to launch a new&#13;<br \/>\nvirtual banking service and Asia&#8217;s first all-in-one numberless bank card, Mox,&#13;<br \/>\nwhile multinational ride hailing company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/business\/banking\/grab-singtel-consortium-to-hire-200-staff-in-banking-fintech-tech-roles-for-its\">Grab&#13;<br \/>\nteamed up with Singtel<\/a> to prepare to launch their own digital banking&#13;<br \/>\nlicense in 2022. While both of these examples span multiple industries, they&#13;<br \/>\neach highlight the impetus among businesses to use business partnerships to&#13;<br \/>\ngain truly 360-degree views of their customers&#8217; needs.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Looking at 2021 and beyond, this collaborative mindset is likely to&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue as government and regulatory bodies work together to focus on&#13;<br \/>\naccelerating digital identity availability, while also teaming up with partners&#13;<br \/>\nlike telco providers, educational institutions and aggregators to create access&#13;<br \/>\nto more comprehensive and accurate data sets. FIs would become more active in&#13;<br \/>\nexploring the use and ingestion of incremental data sets, beyond the basic&#13;<br \/>\ninternal data and official sources, to feed into their core fraud engine and&#13;<br \/>\nenhance fraud detection and prevention.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>FIs have already reinvented partnerships to form new market&#13;<br \/>\npropositions. This openness and innovation would spill over into fraud&#13;<br \/>\nmanagement and propel them to leverage on an expanded ecosystem to layer their&#13;<br \/>\ndata with intelligence from specialists in location, mobile data, devices,&#13;<br \/>\ncybersecurity, data co-relation, and IP. This broader and deeper approach will&#13;<br \/>\nmore effectively equip FIs with appropriate fraud prevention capabilities as&#13;<br \/>\nthe world becomes increasingly digital-first.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>4. Expanding availability of shorter-term credit&#13;<br \/>\nofferings across SEA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The rise of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) businesses has&#13;<br \/>\ndisrupted the credit landscape with shorter-term credit services for everyday&#13;<br \/>\npurchases, faster or no credit checks, instant approvals, and &#8220;zero interest&#8221;. New&#13;<br \/>\nBNPL players <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techinasia.com\/razer-adds-buynowpaylater-merchants-platform-rely-tieup\">across&#13;<br \/>\nAPAC<\/a> have been setup and are quickly catching onto opportunities to offer&#13;<br \/>\nnew and more agile types of loans.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>FIs need to remain vigilant in how BNPL products are&#13;<br \/>\nrolled out, credits are distributed, and debts are managed. This ease in&#13;<br \/>\nobtaining credit can lead to more exposure to higher risk borrowers. FIs&#13;<br \/>\nfocusing on growing their BNPL offerings need to build in stronger measures to&#13;<br \/>\nonboard consumers who have the ability and intent to pay back what they have&#13;<br \/>\nborrowed while keeping the standards of BNPL experience to ensure this revenue&#13;<br \/>\nstream does not go sideways in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>5. Mobile-first technology and data intelligence as&#13;<br \/>\nfundamental building blocks for dynamic digital onboarding and transacting<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Mobile devices are widely used to accelerate the&#13;<br \/>\ndigital onboarding and transacting process. FIs are automating the identity&#13;<br \/>\nverification journey and streamlining biometric and facial verification,&#13;<br \/>\ndocument verification and data match altogether in instant KYC.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Today, mobile devices do more than enabling the&#13;<br \/>\nidentity verification process. In Southeast Asia, <a href=\"https:\/\/fintechnews.sg\/43808\/financial-inclusion\/finance-needs-to-be-redefined-for-good-to-serve-1-billion-of-asias-unbanked\/\">seven&#13;<br \/>\nin 10 adults are either &#8220;underbanked&#8221; or &#8220;unbanked<\/a>&#8220;and excluded from many&#13;<br \/>\ntraditional financial services. FIs have begun to ascertain the quality of consumers&#13;<br \/>\nwith limited identity documentation, or thin file clients, leveraging their&#13;<br \/>\nmobile phones as a personal identity verification device.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Mobile metadata, device usage patterns and SIM card&#13;<br \/>\nrecords are alternatives to traditional verification methods, datasets and data&#13;<br \/>\nsources. These alternatives offer data intelligence that FIs could use to fill&#13;<br \/>\ngaps in physical records, providing assessment and validation to the authenticity&#13;<br \/>\nand quality of consumer profiles and borrowing intent of these untapped&#13;<br \/>\nsegments. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>6. Socially engineered first party fraud and&#13;<br \/>\nidentity crimes taking on a new level of complexity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Bringing together the above trends and predictions, the combination&#13;<br \/>\nof accelerated digital transformation among businesses, skyrocketing consumer&#13;<br \/>\nusage of social media, ecommerce, ebanking and online platforms, and increased collaboration&#13;<br \/>\nacross FIs and non-bank organisations result in growing opportunities for&#13;<br \/>\nfraudsters and crime syndicates to mine data.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Consequently, socially engineered first party fraud,&#13;<br \/>\nidentity crimes like synthetic ID and impersonations would take on a new level&#13;<br \/>\nof detection complexity. FIs have a responsibility to counter these attacks,&#13;<br \/>\nproactively manage the growing volume of channels where bad actors can access&#13;<br \/>\npersonal information, and guard against financial crime and identity theft. As such&#13;<br \/>\nthreats continue to broaden alongside other industry-wide trends, consumers&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\nexpectations of FIs&#8217; commitments to protecting and futureproofing their&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial services and products will also grow.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Organisations will need to reflect their commitments&#13;<br \/>\nto customer satisfaction and retention with more sophisticated and agile&#13;<br \/>\napproaches to fraud prevention and fraud technology investments. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/62420#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dev Dhiman, Managing Director of GBG Asia Pacific SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211;\u00a028 January 2021 &#8211;\u00a02020 catapulted financial institutions forward in their&#13; implementation and optimisation of technology. 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