Finance – EngineerBabu Blog https://engineerbabu.com/blog Hire Dedicated Virtual Employee in Any domain; Start at $1000 - $2999/month ( Content, Design, Marketing, Engineering, Managers, QA ) Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:26:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.11 How to Start a FinTech Company – 7 Things You Should Know https://engineerbabu.com/blog/how-to-start-a-fintech-company/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-start-a-fintech-company https://engineerbabu.com/blog/how-to-start-a-fintech-company/#boombox_comments Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:22:26 +0000 https://www.engineerbabu.com/blog/?p=12499 Even if you don’t trade Bitcoins and are not sure how stocks work, there is still a chance that you might have used some sort of FinTech services like, mobile payments or online banking solutions. In fact, the adoption of fintech globally reached 33% in 2017 (compared to 16% in 2015). In this article, we’ll discuss...

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Even if you don’t trade Bitcoins and are not sure how stocks work, there is still a chance that you might have used some sort of FinTech services like, mobile payments or online banking solutions. In fact, the adoption of fintech globally reached 33% in 2017 (compared to 16% in 2015). In this article, we’ll discuss the know-how of starting a Fintech company, what could be the possible barriers on the way, how to navigate safely through and establish your own successful Fintech company.


“You have to, to serve these markets, re-imagine how money can be managed and moved because there’s going to be more change in the next five years in financial services than happened in the past 30.”

Dan Schulman, CEO PayPal


Thus, there is absolutely no denying the fact that technologies will continue to invade the age-old financial industry. Riding on the fintech bandwagon, many millennials and innovators have reinvented their businesses and made a hefty profit in the transition.
But, how do you even start?
With tons of startups entering the market every month and billion-dollar giants running the show, it can be quite hard to get your piece of the pie.

The 5 Best Fintech Startups and Their Recipe for Success

What’s better than to learn from those who have already made it big, so before delving into the recipe for success, let’s first look at some trendsetters in the current fintech setting, and what has been their secret ingredient.

1. Stripe

Stripe Dashboard
Stripe Dashboard
Courtesy: dribbble.com
  • X-Factor:
    • Ease of Integration
    • Tools
    • Competitive and Crystal Clear Pricing
    • Customized
    • Better Customer Support
  • Niche: Online Payment Services
  • Funding:
    • Raised a total of $685M in 9 rounds.
    • Now valued at $20B.

Stripe’s impeccable functionality and meticulously designed API has helped create the best possible product for the consumers. It has undoubtedly become a one-stop destination for the creation of subscription services, crowd-funding platforms, an e-commerce store and more. This tech company has been able to build an economic infrastructure for the internet by helping out businesses of almost every size. It combines a payment platform with applications that put revenue data at the heart of business operations.

2. Robinhood

Robinhood Dashboard
Robinhood Dashboard
Courtesy: dribbble.com
  • X-Factor:
    • Laser focus on target market (millennials)
    • Viral marketing strategies
    • Clutter-free interface
  • Niche: Trading and Investments
  • Funding:
    • Raised a total of $539M in 5 Rounds
    • Now valued at $5.6B

It could easily be touted as the top fintech company of this year. In order to keep the fees down, the company abstains from opening storefronts and renders no additional tools. Aptly named after the popular fictional character, it is helping the less economically privileged grow by using and betting on rich people’s money. The fintech app has eliminated all brokerage fees that have traditionally been associated with initiating a buy or sell. It earns money through its Robinhood Gold accounts for premium members and by collecting interest from cash holdings and stocks just like a bank. The app is clutter-free and straight-forward, making it easy to use for everyone.

3. Lu.com/Lufax Lufax

  • X-Factor:
    • Broad product offering
    • Diverse liquidity avenues
  • Niche: Peer-to-Peer Lending and Financing platform
  • Funding:
    • Raised $1.7B in 2 rounds of funding
    • Now valued at approx. $10B

Lufax has grown to become China’s largest fintech company in less than four years. It is considered to be China’s most innovative non-SOE financial institution. The number of registered users on Lufax surpassed 14 Million recently. Lufax takes complete advantage of the latest big data and IT offerings, and clouts the most advanced risk assessment models and risk control systems.

4. Paytm

Paytm the largest fintech company
A Paytm wallet transaction
Courtesy: dribbble.com/paytm
  • X-Factor: 
    • Extremely high brand awareness
    • Strong marketing campaigns
    • Word of mouth
    • Strong investments from big-wigs
  • Niche: Online payments
  • Funding:
    • Raised over $2.2B in 4 funding rounds.
    • Now valued at approx. $15B.

Touted as India’s largest mobile commerce platform – it has 80 Million active monthly users and processes around 5 million transactions every day. Paytm tries to maintain an open culture where everyone is a hands-on contributor and feels comfortable sharing ideas and opinions. Paytm’s team spends hours designing each new feature and obsesses about the smallest of details.
Paytm’s approach is quite simple – To design something they’d use.

5. Klarna

Klarna's Dashboard
Klarna’s Dashboard Screen Capture
Source: klarna.com
  • X-Factor: Business Model
  • Niche: Online Payments
  • Funding:
    • Raised $681.7M in 13 funding rounds
    • Now valued at north of $2.5B

According to its CEO, Klarna’s mission remains the same, even after 12 years of its formation – To make paying as simple, safe and above all, as smooth as possible.
This simple vision has helped Klarna become one of the largest banks of Europe.
Klarna’s pay later policy has proven to be a tremendous success across Europe. Try it first, pay later, lets users pay 14 or 30 days after delivery depending on the store. Besides, there is also an option of paying in installments for its users.
They have a user base of almost 60 Million and has some 90,000 registered merchants on their platform.


So, what is it specifically that differentiates these exceptional startups from the rest of the crowd?

You might have observed that some of the words used to describe all of the listed products were – “simple” or “easy.” This can’t just be a coincidence.
Simplicity and ease-of-use are powerful differentiators that can separate any product from their competitors. The simplicity of these products gave them a competitive advantage over other established giants.

Mentioned below are the 7 steps you need to consider in order to establish a successful Financial Technology startup.

STEP 1: Identify your NicheNiche for Fintech company

Fintech is a broad term and has a lot of dimensions to it. The classification of Fintech really depends on various circumstances.
It may refer to a specific set of start-ups and companies, or it may apply to initiatives enabled by technological innovations that contribute to the development of the financial segment.
There are many domains in fintech to consider, here are some of them:

  • Fund Movement, or transactions by giving or receiving payments.
    • Currency
    • Payment Solution
    • Remittances
  • Fund Placementor the financing of planned or unplanned financial regulations.
    • Saving
    • Investing
    • Borrowing
    • Alternative Financing
  • Data Management, to get insights for improving decision making
    • Financial Management Tools
    • Research and Data

For starting a fintech company, one must be crystal clear of the target market and the problem they are looking to address. Besides choosing a domain, your product should cater to a specific audience, e.g., a country, a state, a city or a particular demographic. However, it is always better to launch your startup locally first and expand to the global market later if needed.

STEP 2: Know the RegulationsFinTech Company Regulations

The banking and finance industries are highly regulated ones’ and for obvious reasons. The regulations are why financial service industries can be tough to break into. Several laws have been put to place to ensure that these sectors are protected from frauds. Also, these regulations can immensely vary depending on the country, state or region you want to operate in.
The arrival of Fintech has ushered in new ways of handling and making money, and thus, have created a grey area for regulations. This has been drawing the attention of lawmakers. 
So, whatever domain one wishes to venture in, it is of vital importance to thoroughly understand the regulatory measures that apply according to the demographics and geography.

STEP 3: Discover your EdgeLimit of your fintech company

Every unique product or innovation that has been able to disrupt a sector successfully has always been the one that has done something differently.

There couldn’t be a better example for this scenario than Robinhood. With their unique business strategy and viral marketing campaigns, they were able to successfully disrupt the trading and investments domain. Their distinctive business offering, like charging zero commission proved to be an instant hit amongst millennials with limited pocket.
The fintech industry is getting crowded. Many innovations are already underway. Still, a critical entrepreneurial question to ask is if your product/venture will be able to offer something unique and of high importance.
The danger for startups is to become a “me too.” If there is already an entity that is established and doing well in your niche, then you should divert your focus to something new and innovative.
Thus, it is vital for new-age fintech startups to focus their attention towards developing a product that offers a service or a feature that is exclusive to them. There needs to be some sort of nuance that your solution must provide.
This distinction would serve as the disruption that you might have been looking for.

STEP 4: Hire the Right Talent along with the Right Tech Stack

• Hiring the right talent
A successful enterprise is made from its people. Therefore, hiring crème-de la-crème from amongst the crowd is of vital importance. If your city has a limited talent pool, then attracting good talent becomes quite tricky.  
In such cases, the best decision for a startup would be to hire a software development team offshore (consider India!). This not only cuts significant costs for up-and-coming startups, but also provides a solid team of specialists with specific domain knowledge and relevant experience.
If you are on the lookout for creating a great product and are considering hiring a software development company, then look no further, we have compiled a list of the best financial app development companies.
• Choosing the right tech stack
It is must for every fintech product to have a customized software. No decent startup relies on third-party CMSs or frameworks to handle their transactions. Additionally, no ready-made solution can match the performance capabilities of a custom designed software.

Tech Stack for Fintech company
An overview of tech stacks for different types of fintech product

With finance, comes along the risk of data breach. Therefore, data safety is one of the most critical aspects of Fintech App Development.
Every startup needs to ensure that their product is secure and all the sensitive data is encrypted and stored in the cloud.
Recommended Read: How Much does Mobile App Development Cost?

Step 5: Start by creating an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)

I strongly recommend starting with a Minimum Viable Product first.
For beginners, an MVP is a development technique in which a new product or website is developed with just enough features to suffice for the early users of the product. The final product, with all the elements, is only designed and developed once the feedback is received from the initial users.

MVP for FinTech company
The latter approach is the best practice for building an MVP.

There are numerous advantages of following this process, primarily:
1. Cheaper: An MVP saves you a considerable amount of investment because you’re not required to develop extra functionalities that may have compromised the product anyway. These cost saving are essential because you don’t know for sure whether the consumers will like the product. Through MVP you can test the waters and then dive into the deeper end of the pool.
2. Effective: Using the MVP approach means you end up with only those features that you require the most, so, there is comparatively less façade, and your product turns out cleaner and simpler.
3. Faster: 
Another benefit of an MVP is the Speed of Development. You’re not trying to create a perfect product right away; it serves as a platform to implement the idea, study its use, make amends and then proceed further. This makes the entire process a whole lot faster and easier.

4. Reduces riskA startup with a Minimum Viable Product is more likely to receive funding from the investors, this is because an MVP gives you an opportunity to test the waters without directly building the final product. It allows developers to test the viability of your product amongst the target audience without requiring huge investments.
The lower the risk of the investment not paying off, the more likely investors are to fund your idea.

Step 6: Get FundedGet Funded

Starting a fintech company is a costly affair. Making an incredible product requires talent, and talent isn’t cheap. As traditional organizations are trying to acquire fintech talent for themselves, startups would inevitably face competition in hiring. If your venture isn’t looking to partner with professionals who can create the entire product range, then stay prepared to shell out a reasonable amount for talent.
Now, if you don’t have deep pockets, it becomes quite difficult to stay afloat in this volatile domain. Thus getting an investor onboard becomes essential to not compromise on the product quality.
What entices Investors?
With the current wave of excitement around fintech. The global venture capital investments have crossed almost $17B. This, however, could also be a bane for early age startups, because the competition for funding is snowballing exponentially. VCs are getting more and more selective, and are seeking out companies with truly game-changing offerings.  
Thus, it is required to make your value proposition more and more enticing.

Step 7: Build Partnerships

It is as essential for up-and-coming fintech startups to develop alliances with relevant institutions, as is getting funded.
Fintech and Financial Institutions
Both Financial Institutions and Fintech Startups can help expand the others outreach by adding a unique element through their collaboration.
Image Courtesy: centerforfinancialinclusion.org

Partnering is an excellent approach to build muscle in innovation and transformation. In which you can learn at minimal cost and minimum risk. The primary reason for partnering pertaining to this specific domain is, ‘Credibility.’
It could be hard for users to trust an emerging entity, and that too in such a volatile domain. Thus, when you are associated with a relevant name, it becomes comparatively easier to sail through those hurdles. Financial institutions also bring along a large customer base and comprehensive customer data.
Thus partnering can provide a considerable boost to startups and together they could improve product efficiency and build highly accessible products.


Wrapping Up

Fintech may not be the easiest industry to target. With all the pitfalls in consideration – It takes sweat, time and effort to create a successful fintech company. It demands expertise, creativity, and honestly, a lot of grit to launch a startup in such a frivolous and competitive domain.
There are numerous opinions highlighting the supposed discord between the slow-evolving realm of finance and the highly disrupting world of technology. The pressure on tech companies to deliver huge results rapidly is immense.
Still, if you believe that you will be able to solve financial issues for your users through innovative means, go ahead. You will also need the right people by your side. A team with strong technical skills and impeccable domain expertise will definitely help in building something great.

Just be shrewd with how you do it.

After all,
Fortune favors the bold.

From helping organizations like BankOpen to dozens of startups worldwide, we at EngineerBabu have a track record of building highly successful fintech products.
And several have even gotten funded!

That’s precisely why we understand the ins’ and outs’ of this realm and how to scale a business to tremendous heights.
So, If you are on the lookout for solid domain expertise and a trusted name in the industry, contact us right away.


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Financial Technology or its portmanteau ‘FinTech’ is no longer confined to the dark and dingy corners of back-offices, in fact, it has taken center stage by making itself indispensable to almost all of the customer-driven processes. Any digital transaction, be it, online shopping, foreign currency exchange, stock investments or money transfers, is possible at our fingertips thanks to ‘FinTech.’  So, how did FinTech come to play such an essential role in the lives of us consumers and What FinTech Trends we are going to witness this year?

As Mr. White used to say – “I am the one who knocks”.
This new explosion in IT is definitely the one that is knocking on every VCs and investors doorstep. This could be precisely said because the overall investment in Financial Technology has already surpassed the 2017 results in mid-year itself.
Let’s take a look at some of the major breakthroughs that occurred in FinTech this year,
• The acquisition of WorldPay
WorldPay (now WorldPay, Inc) was publicly listed payment processing platform which provided online services for accepting electronic transactions by a variety of methods such as credit card, bank based or direct transfer. It also offered a range of merchant services and operated in an extensive demographic (400,000 merchants in 146 countries) across the globe. It was acquired by Vantiv, a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions for financial institutions. The $12.9 billion acquisition came as a significant step forward for the two giants.
WorldPay which competes with the likes of VeriFone, PayPal, Stripe and several others gained significant momentum after the acquisition.
• The Funding of Ant Financial
It didn’t come as a surprise to many when China’s Ant Financial raised about $14 billion in its last seed round. After all, it is backed by one of the biggest names in the industry (Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.).

Funding Fintech in 2019
Source: www.ft.com

The funding made Ant the world’s leading FinTech firm. The funding undeniably equipped them with enormous resources for expansion. The affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is alreadyChina’s biggest online payments service and even controls the world’s largest money market fund.
Now, with the help of our partners, we are going to accelerate our strategy,” Ant’s CEO Eric Jing said in a statement to Bloomberg.

Recommended Read: Top 10 FinTech Companies Transforming Finance in USA

Analyzing the above developments we could accurately predict where FinTech is headed in 2020.
Let’s take a sneak peek,

Fintech Trends in 2020

1. RegTech is here to stay

Compliance, Complexity, Cost and Bureaucratic processes have always stifled the development of the finance industry. The long and tedious processes have proven to be a bane for the industry. This led to the reincarnation of a morbid industry that never saw a significant thrust since the spurt of the dot-com bubble. Consequently, we are seeing a lot of financial firms shifting to Regulatory Technology (RegTech) to bridge those gaps.
One must wonder- What exactly is RegTech??

It is essentially the use of technology across financial services functions to ease financial tasks such as regulatory compliance. It has a significant impact on financial services.
In simpler words, it is a
technology that helps financial service firms get better at dealing with regulation. For instance, Know Your Customer (KYC). But the benefits of RegTech far exceeds than just KYC.
As the world is moving from big data to ‘smart data’, technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling companies to gain insights into regulatory practices, automate reporting, carry out a meaningful inspection of critical compliance risk areas and even potentially create an end-to-end view of compliance.
Companies are using RegTech to deal with the vast amount of data they are generating. More data handled the right way also means better information.
Many VCs and investors have already started riding on the RegTech bandwagon, due to which there has been a significant increase in the investment across this lucrative sector.
There has been an investment of $1.37 billion in the first half of 2018 – more than for all of 2017. RegTech has a promising future ahead, and these new-age startups will be the ones to watch out for in the upcoming calendar.

1. Governance.io / governance.com:
Based out of Luxembourg, and founded by brothers Bert and Rob Boerman, this RegTech startup provides smart technology and support services to facilitate the control of regulated companies. They raised their Series A round this year, Governance.io has established itself as a platform for good governance through the use of technology and support.
Deployed at-premise or in the cloud, the solution allows all stakeholders to collaborate on data, documentation, and workflows. It also provides a white-labeled client portal to exchange data and collaborate on meetings and due diligence questionnaires.
A network of governance supports clients that can provide hosting, operational support, regulatory advisory, and other support services.

2. Advanced logic analytics:
This UK based startup was founded in 2015. Riding on new age technologies, ALA has established a stronghold in the Compliance sector. It offers enterprise-wide big data and financial analytics solutions for buy and sell-side institutions and other financial firms. Their data science-led business offering and AI driven algorithms bring alternative data insights for financial institutions. By using machine learning-based analytic techniques, ALA develops and apply risk calculations. Communications and other source data are scored against a series of Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to quickly pick up on any issues that could cause problems.

Fintech trends in 2019
RegTech startups that are creating a difference in the Compliance Sector

3. Agreement express:
Agreement Express provides onboarding automation software for financial services. Their platform allows wealth management and payments companies to deliver customer application, approval, and onboarding services across their offerings. They provide seamless integration to the back-office for compliance and risk workflows which is one of their most sought-after features.
4. Alyne:
The differentiating factor for this Munich based startup has been the market it caters. Alyne offerings include cybersecurity, risk management and compliance capabilities across all industries of all magnitudes. They call themselves “Business focused Software as a Service”.
5. Surety:
Surety caters to a niche segment of Regulatory Technology. They provide technology to protect the integrity of digital information using cryptographic time-stamping service. They are also one of the prominent providers of regulatory services such as IP protection and digital footprint preservation. Surety sanctions users to apply tamper-proof digital “Seals” to almost any form of electronic information. They are easily deployable across enterprise or cloud, providing long-term and independent proof with the guarantee that the information hasn’t been tampered since.
6. AppZen:
Appzen is an extremely impressive AI platform that utilizes machine learning to audit contracts, expense reports, and invoices. It integrates with all major ERPs, invoicing software, and expense automation products. This six-year-old startup is valued at $175 million and has recently raised $35 million in its Series B round. Appzen enjoys clientele such as Airbnb, Amazon, Citi Bank, Salesforce, Intuit, and 650 major organizations.
The goal is to address all the domains in the CFO organization,” AppZen’s Chief Executive Officer, Anant Kale said in a statement.
7. AQMETRICS: 
AQMETRICS provides GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) software for financial services firms trading on the global financial markets. Headquartered in Kildare, Ireland (EU), AQMETRICS has raised almost $3.3 Million in investment so far. They specialize in providing unified market surveillance and compliance solutions to investment management companies. AQMETRICS serves a suite of cloud-based solutions and supports a full range of global regulatory reporting.

8. Arachnys:
Arachnys’ vision is focused on exploiting the evolving markets rather than already lucrative ones because they believe emerging markets, which are often fragmented and poorly organized will see an explosion of business information. Unlike their RegTech counterparts, Arachnys, therefore, targets the Eurasian market more extensively. Their primary emphasis remains attractive markets like China, India, Russia, and the Middle East.
Arachnys domain expertise caters to Customer Risk Evaluation lifecycle by using cutting-edge technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, Intelligence, and Natural Language Processing.
Their products are specifically tailored to serve a diverse customer base and are extensively customizable.

2. Artificial Intelligence:

In the early days of banking, bankers used to have personal connections with their customers. Each step of the banking process involved customer-client interaction. But due to the digitization of the banking process, this personal connection has been lost. So, is it possible to leverage the same technology to get that human interaction back?

AI one of the Fintech trends
Source- geniusmonkey.com

Many believe, A.I can be leveraged to bring back that connection.
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) will continue to govern FinTech in new ways. In 2020, we could see companies use A.I. to develop new commerce interfaces, with the number of companies looking into voice set to increase.
Let’s delve into the potential use-cases of A.I:

• Credit Scores
:
In traditional banking infrastructure, there were a lot of customers who were underserved and ignored. They couldn’t apply for a loan because they didn’t have a credit score. Many startups have stepped up to bridge that crevice.
Various applications are coming up to assist customers who want to apply for a loan but have no credit history for the bank to review. Many tools and technologies such as Psychometric Analysis, Behavioral Detection, Predictive Analysis, and mining of the borrower’s data through the web, social media, geo-location and even browser history are being deployed to ensure a detailed evaluation of the potential borrower. These technologies let banks build a vivid picture that allows them to evaluate whether a candidate is creditworthy.
• Security and Fraud Control:
The banking sector is the single most targeted area by hackers and fraudsters for obvious reasons. This anomaly allows for the development of some of the most innovative and hi-tech solutions in this realm. Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Optimized Algorithms, and numerous other tools and technologies are being deployed by financial firms and new-age startups to address this issue. Many A.I tools have also come into use to analyze and observe user’s critical behavioral patterns and issue warnings in case of possible security infringement. Due to these developments, it was observed in the Q3 that consumers are increasingly becoming more at ease at using A.I-driven applications and digital payment gateways to carry out their financial transactions.
• Customer Support Automation:
Time and again it has been witnessed that most of the customer-facing processes are becoming obsolete by every passing day. They are being revolutionized by the advent of Chabots and Virtual Assistants. It could be easily figured out as to what exactly is driving that trend. Automation of customer-facing services address one problem that has always costed companies in billions of dollar – Human Error.

customer support automation a fintech trend
Source: medium.com/techsee

AI-driven platforms utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) are turning more human than ever. This combined with no possible error in delivery makes it an ideal fit. Chatbots can not only answer customer queries intelligently, but they can also be integrated with social networking sites, and accept requests for applications and orders directly from social media channels.

Gartner prediction for 2018, projected more than 2 billion people would be diligently using conversational A.I to interact with virtual assistants on different platforms. The outcomes clearly surpassed the forecasts.

Recommended Read: 7 Tips for Starting a Fintech Company

3. Blockchain will venture beyond Bitcoin:

The much-hyped technology upon which Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are based – The Blockchain, is all set out to venture beyond Bitcoin and will serve various other markets and domains. Keeping in mind the potential of Blockchain, several banks and financial firms have planned for considerable investments in the domain. Many companies have rolled out pilot programs across a range of industries, including – financial services, healthcare and even global logistics. Earlier in 2018, several banks in Asia conducted a pilot in which Blockchain was used to transfer funds across continents in a matter of few seconds.

blockchain
Image Courtesy: twitter.com/chboursin


The following could be the potential use cases that can come into light in 2020,

1. Weapons Tracking:Blockchain could help tremendously in gun control and weapon accountability. This could easily be one of the single most significant reform that could change the entire state of firearm distribution. And gun control being such a trending topic on almost every new network. Blockchain could create a completely transparent and never-changing registry ledger that allows law enforcement to track down weapons and guns ownership. It could also be utilized to keep a record of weapons sold privately.

2. Digital Voting:
If you are worried about booth capturing or voter fraud. Then Blockchain will offer you a sigh of relief. Blockchain would offer the ability to vote digitally and at the same time be transparent enough that any regulator could see if any irregularity or fraud transpires. The decentralized nature and its immutability would ensure your vote truly counts.

3. Digital IDs:
Digital IDs with the help of Blockchain would be a boon for the impoverished and developing nations by giving them access to financial services. Tech giant Microsoft is already planning to venture into the domain by creating digital IDs within its Authenticator app.
4. Real Estate:
Since paper trails are frequently a source of confusion, it is entirely possible that Blockchain will take paper out of the equation. So, if one plans to buy or sell land, a house, or even a car you’ll just require to transfer the title. Thanks to Blockchain these titles will get stored on the network allowing for a crystal clear picture of the legal ownership.

5. Record keeping of medical records:
Patient privacy would be utterly discreet by the introduction of Blockchain in the pharmaceutical sector. The patients who possess the key to access these records will be in complete ownership of their data and will control who can access or view that data. Thus strengthening the HIPAA laws that are designed to protect their privacy.
6. Managing IoT (Internet of Things) networks:
Many networking corporations have announced that they are working on a Blockchain based application that will monitor the Internet of Things network. Such an application would help determine the authenticity of the devices on the network and would continuously do so for devices entering and leaving the network. This could drive a significant shift in device-to-device integration.
Recommended Read: How is BlockChain Revolutionizing Banking and Financial Markets

4. Financial Inclusion:

In the largest ever gathering of FinTech firms in Singapore, Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi introduced attractive policies and plans to invite investors to the Indian landscape.
I say this to all the FinTech companies and startups: India is your best destination,” said Modi, the keynote speaker at the Singapore FinTech Festival.
In Nigeria, FinTech startup NetPlus has come with a solution that provides simple and reliant digital payment system to the consumers. So, consumers of Nigeria who were generally skeptical when it comes to e-commerce, have embraced the platform.
Developments such as these are proving to be an excellent boost for evolving markets such as India, Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia, and several others. Earlier when the FinTech hubs used to be just San Francisco, Singapore, and London, such developments are driving investors to these huge rewarding markets. This shift in the market will gain significant traction next year and developing nations would possible see tremendous growth in investments across FinTech and RegTech. Also, several financial establishments are planning to open up new premises in these countries which definitely suggests what is expected to come our way in 2020.


Wrapping up

My prediction for 2020:

It is big, It is growing, and It is disruptive.

FinTech would be the second-most significant transformation in Finance, since the first permanent banknotes. I believe, Financial Technology would not only disrupt the way we purchase and invest, but it would also alter the very definition of money itself.
FinTech 3.0 is upon us and banks, and financial firms will enjoy a roller-coaster ride riding on the FinTech wagon.  2020 will be the year of banks acquiring FinTech firms, or waiting for their slow demise. Those who catch the FinTech train would bolster, and the rest would be gasping for air.
After all, it is true what they say – You snooze, You lose.
EngineerBabuteam excels in creating fintech products utilizing the latest tech stacks. This is why so many of our clients have gone on to acquire record funding from renowned investors. One such dear customer of ours, BankOpen, a neobanking platform, recently raised $5M in Series A led by Beenext, Speedinvest, and 3one4 Capital. We possess solid domain expertise in developing FinTech products. Feel free to reach out to us for a free consultation.
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