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Traditional Banks To Become Relics Due To Fintech Disruption

by Rarzack Olaegbe
3 years ago
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Vinyl is back. The compact disc has pushed it underneath. Flash drive announced its burial. Why not? Albums have limitations. You cannot listen to a record in your car. But you can plug a USB flash drive directly into a data port to listen. With a flash drive, you can add music to your computer. You can upload songs to your phone’s music app.

Flash drive makes it easy for upcoming and established artistes to play their songs anywhere, anytime. At a show, Dee Jay can play an artiste’s music and connect directly to his fans. Flash drive is the right media format for any band. Vinyl is supposed to be a relic of the Victorian past. What is new?

 

On The One Hand

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Change is impermanent. It will never be permanent, anyway. A season goes by. Life moves on. Disruption will occur. Some traditions will give way. That is why the current disruption in the fintech ecosystem is a phase. Pointing to this is the research about the strategic alliances between banks and fintech startups. The alliance allows banks to leverage the outside perspective of fintech startups. This permits the fintech to do things that the banks cannot do.

Yes, technology has reduced the time it takes to make significant decisions. Yes, fintech has changed the financial services industry at an alarming rate. Yet, it is not relenting. But banking goes on. According to www2.lehigh.edu, about one-third of Goldman’s staff – about 9,000 – are computer engineers.

Aside from this, leading the fintech revolution are the emerging markets. China has an adoption rate of 69 per cent. India is second at 52 per cent. The United States has 33 per cent. MIT Technology Review reported in February, for example, that Goldman Sachs had only two traders left on its U.S. cash equities trading desk in New York. By contrast, in 2000, the Wall Street giant had 600 well-compensated humans buying and selling the stock for its big clients. Machines handle these jobs now.

Oliver Yao, George N. Beckwith ’32 Professor of Information Systems and chair of the Department of Management at Lehigh said, “Disruption is bad, right? But this is a disruptive advancement. It’s not incremental advancement. It is disruptive. It destroys old routines. It builds new ones that are much faster, smarter, and more intelligent, which is a good thing.”

The latest EY Fintech Adoption Index surveyed consumers in 20 global markets who are active online and found “that fintech firms have reached a tipping point and are poised for mainstream adoption.”

 

On The Other Hand

Abubakar Suleiman, the CEO of Sterling Bank and the winner of the Special Leadership Award at the Nigerian Fintech Award 2022, said digital products have helped to improve the profits of financial institutions. The keynote speaker at the awards maintained, “We forget one thing. Less than one out of every effort at disruption leads to emptiness. 99 per cent of efforts at disruption either do not happen or result in personal loss. It is not every time that the desired results come through disruption.”

Disruption, he observed, is a double-edged sword. He, therefore, asked fintech firms to change their perception of disruption because there is no certainty about its likely outcome. “The more comfortable one is, the less likely it is to want a change. Disruptors need to appreciate the value of partnerships and distribute risks.” Meaning. Traditional banks may not become relics due to fintech disruption.

 

From The Sideline

Vinyl is back. In the USA, 41.72 million vinyl albums were sold in 2021.

What is the reason, please?

Nostalgia. Vinyl gives you the sound quality of an adhesives album.

What is your point, please?

Traditional banking gives a personal touch. It will survive and thrive, like vinyl.

 

 

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