{"id":6991,"date":"2017-02-11T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=6991"},"modified":"2018-08-08T05:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T05:51:14","slug":"11-fintech-trends-to-follow-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/11-fintech-trends-to-follow-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"11 FinTech trends to follow in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep an eye on the following trends to stay ahead of the curve.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Removing friction from the customer journey \u2013 \u201csmoother customer experience\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>Rise of insurtech<br \/>\nAccording to Meaghan Johnson,&nbsp;<em>\u201cThere are so many opportunities for an easy cross-sell based on data from customer spend, but also by using the mobile app via GPS. In Sweden we have seen a few banks start to send push notifications offering travel insurance when a customer is at an airport, ferry, or train station.\u201d;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rise of regtech<br \/>\n<em>\u201cOne of the big barriers to improving things in the regtech space is the lack of an identity infrastructure, and that seems to have gone up the agenda recently\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;says David Birch, Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion;<\/li>\n<li>PSD2 (Payment Services Directive, Version 2.0) will force banks and FinTech into partnerships;<\/li>\n<li>Reform of the bank boardroom<br \/>\n<em>\u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/top-5-banking-trends-2017-david-horton\"><em>CIOs will no longer be the most influential technology decision makers<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>predicts David Horton, Head of Innovation at Synechron;<\/li>\n<li>The focus on China and emerging markets;<\/li>\n<li>Chatbots, machine learning, and artificial intelligence;<\/li>\n<li>FinTech integrates with social media<br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe\u2019re going to see payments move further away from banking,and continue that trajectory into chat, social, embedded elsewhere.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;says Jason Bates;<\/li>\n<li>FinTech becomes embedded in the Internet of Things;<\/li>\n<li>Platforms, APIs, and open banking;<\/li>\n<li>Blockchain moves out of the labs into the real world.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-6991 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='OPPA e-wallet enters Georgian digital market'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/oppa-e-wallet-enters-georgian-digital-market\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/illustration-of-online-payment-with-credit-card_53876-8120-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10513\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10513'>\n\t\t\t\tOPPA e-wallet enters Georgian digital market\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Gates Foundation supports open mobile banking platform in Africa'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/gates-foundation-supports-open-mobile-banking-platform-in-africa\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gates-foundation-supports-open-mobile-banking-platform-in-africa-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12970\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12970'>\n\t\t\t\tGates Foundation supports open mobile banking platform in Africa\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='New universal scoring platform to launch in Kyrgyzstan'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/new-universal-scoring-platform-to-launch-in-kyrgyzstan\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/scoring-system-kg-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10516\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10516'>\n\t\t\t\tNew universal scoring platform to launch in Kyrgyzstan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep an eye on the following trends to stay ahead of the curve. Removing friction from the customer journey \u2013 \u201csmoother customer experience\u201d; Rise of insurtech According to Meaghan Johnson,&nbsp;\u201cThere are so many opportunities for an easy cross-sell based on data from customer spend, but also by using the mobile app via GPS. In Sweden &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[45,77,35,287,70,371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10684,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions\/10684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}