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REDEFINE THE SEGMENTATION


          IN DIGITAL BANKING AGE


                            A key trend in retail banking is the ongoing evolution towards

                            direct banking and channels, predominantly digital channels.
                            Digital   footprints can be obtained  from every  customer

                            interaction  that  happens  through  digital  channels.  Analysing
                            these  foot  prints  using  new  age  analytics  tools,  artificial
                            intelligence and machine learning techniques can reveal the

                            behavior and consumption patterns of banking customers.

                                                                        - Arindam Karmakar, General Manager-Sales, Flytxt


                 he spurt in the number of financial           The challenge, though, for the financial

                 institutions has made people                  institutions, especially those targeting
          Trealize that finances are barely                    the retail and MSME sectors, is to
          a hiccup when it comes to fulfilling                 discover new segments that can
          aspirations and achieving life goals. A              potentially provide higher returns and do

          25-year-old professional can now own                 so in compliance with the core values of
          a house that someone from an earlier                 the institution.
          generation could only have dreamed of
          buying after saving for 20 years or more.            Massive stockpiles of customer data,

          Equally, aspiring entrepreneurs can now              such as demographic details, income
          deliver big while risking little of their own        and spending patterns, are already being
          capital.                                             leveraged. We already know of a number

          With affordable interest rates and high              of banking activities that are done over
          liquidity, banks are ready to meet the               mobile, with a substantial number of
          financial aspirations of individuals and             millennials using the mobile channel as

          corporates.                                          depicted below.



                                                  Mobile banking statistics























                                                         Fig - 1-2-1                  Source: Payments Cards & Mobile


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