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Basic issues affecting the banking sector are digital disruption, rising competition, regulatory change and post-pandemic economic fluctuations, etc.. Tomorrow’s winners will take steps to not only mitigate or manage these issues—they will find creative, disruptive ways to address them proactively. The specific future of banking is impossible to predict. Still, many of the most potent forces shaping that future can be closely tracked. They include the influence of digital tools like machine learning and cryptocurrency,…

Inflation is on the increase around the world, with food and energy prices hitting record highs. The rise has been driven in large part by pent-up consumer demand after the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As usual, the question to all is when it can expect to ease. April saw a CPI (consumer price index) very high across the world. Driven by food and energy costs in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic,…

In Bangladesh, most people working in agriculture are above 50 years of age. The new generation is not coming to the sector. In 2000, our farm labour was 80% of the population. This has now dropped to 40%. By 2030, it will drop to 27%. The garment sector, service industry and other business ventures and migration have resulted in this. Soil temperature has risen in the last 5-6 years due to climate change resulting in…

Digitising and customising the retail banking process for the clients will attract more customers and ensure incremental growth Although many things changed in the last few years, particularly in 2021, many more seemed to stay the same. Whenever the banking industry thought the end of the Covid-19 pandemic was nigh, a nascent variant of Covid would make their collective hopes redundant.Despite these holdups, banks continuously tried to transform the way they deliver services and sought to…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) predicted that the population of Bangladesh would reach between 230-250 million in 2050. Presently, the country is adding 2 million people annually to the national population and for that, it is losing 1 percent of agricultural land every year. There are roughly 8.77 million hectares of cultivable land available, out of which, 88 percent is cultivated. So, there is a limited scope to expand the cultivated area. The Asian…

Although previous myths about millennials not being valuable customers have been disproven, significant challenges remain for retail banking leaders who want to engage the millennial banking segment Md Kafi Khan. Illustration: TBS The world is adjusting to living with Covid-19 and the growing impacts of climate change. Financial institutions will learn just how successful they have been at helping people through the recent challenging times. As financial institutions take stock of their successes and failures,…

Training and skill development are extremely important in the face of emerging technological advances. They decrease job ambiguity and skill obsolescence, providing job security In January of this year, the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Bank of Canada, Dave McKey said that they were struggling to acquire talented, skilled and competent employees. Bank jobs have always been highly coveted for candidates. But as tech firms are redefining our society and business practises on a near daily…

To better understand it is needed the efforts to continue growing in the face of competitive threat from major banks, challenger banks and other fintechs. How to play and how to win: How Strategy Really Works, which describes an integrated cascade of choices which companies can use to develop their strategy time has come to review and to know how the growth is happening and expanding. It is observed that nor do the industry planning…

New viable model to serve usersAs far as Bangladesh is concerned, new viable business models are needed, where there will be biolistic product strategies, SME banking should have owned the customers and will be a product provider i.e. a combination of both a ‘marketplace’ with customer base. There are new banks emerging now that have chosen not to provide transactional accounts but rather serve the life cycle needs of a business. They provide solutions to…

Instead of maximising profit for their shareholders, companies should focus more on increasing their welfare, because shareholders may care more about other causes than just making a profitCorporate governance is one of the most crucial aspects of the modern economy. Good corporate governance allows companies to mobilise domestic and international capital and channel them to productive ends at the lowest possible cost. Traditionally, preventing corporate frauds have been one of the primary reasons for establishing corporate…