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Company Insights
HDFC Bank – Enterprise Tech Ecosystem Series
HDFC Bank Digital Transformation Strategies Report Overview HDFC Bank has been banking on emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, fintech and cybersecurity to enhance operations and improve customer service. The annual ICT spending of HDFC was estimated at $847 million in 2022. A major share of this spending is earmarked for acquiring ICT services, software, and hardware from vendors. HDFC Bank offers personal and corporate banking, private and investment banking, and other related financial solutions to individuals, SMEs, the government...
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Company Profile
Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd – Company Profile
Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (HDFC) is a deposit-taking non-banking financial institution that offers a range of housing finance solutions. It offers loans for new homes, home improvement, home extension, plot, property, top-up, education, and non-residential premises. Through its subsidiaries and associates, the corporation provides insurance coverage for home, travel, motor, health, home and personal accident, retirement, property, marine, aviation, protection, savings, investments, and liability. It also provides services such as rural housing finance, advisory, portfolio management, mutual fund, property...
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Sector Analysis
India Cards and Payments – Opportunities and Risks to 2026
India Cards and Payments Market Report Overview The India cards and payments market size was valued at $263.5 billion in 2022 and is expected to achieve a CAGR of more than 18% during 2022-2026. Cash use is gradually declining in India because of government initiatives, bank efforts, and growing consumer confidence in electronic payments. The government has taken several steps to bring more of the population under the purview of the banking system, as well as to promote electronic payments....
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Analyst Opinions
India Wealth Management – Market Sizing and Opportunities to 2026
India Wealth Management Market Report Overview India’s affluent segment (including the HNW and mass affluent population) has experienced robust growth in the recent years. The India Wealth Management market research report analyzes India’s wealth and retail savings and investments markets including the overall affluent market size. The report also provides an analysis of the factors driving liquid asset growth, including a breakdown, and forecast of total retail savings and investments split by equities, mutual funds, deposits, and bonds.
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Thematic Analysis
Conversational Platforms in Banking – Thematic Research
Conversational Platforms in Banking – Thematic Research Conversational interfaces employ various technologies. This includes speech recognition, natural language processing (NLP), contextual awareness, and machine learning—to enable human-like interactions with computer systems. Within banking, there are simple bots that effectively follow mapped-out conversations with decision trees to tirage customers, to bots underpinned by machine learning algorithms that evolve capabilities over time in response to customer interactions. The conversational platforms in banking industry thematic intelligence report assess how conversational interfaces, combined with...
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Analyst Opinions
Never Trust, Always Verify – Is Zero Trust the Next Big Thing in Cybersecurity?
Zero Trust – The Next Big Thing in Cybersecurity Zero trust is a strategic approach to secure infrastructure and data that necessitates all users, whether in or outside an organization’s network, to constantly be authenticated, authorized, and validated for security configuration and posture before providing access to applications or data. Zero trust can be achieved both ways, with or without the integration of blockchain technology. The zero trust future TechSeries report highlights the factors driving and challenging the implementation of...
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Company Insights
ICICI Bank – Digital Transformation Strategies
ICICI Bank has been focusing on digital technologies as a part of its digital transformation strategies. The annual ICT spending of ICICI Bank was estimated at $760.7 million in 2021. A major share of this spending is earmarked for acquiring Network and communications, ICT services, and software from vendors. ICICI Bank offers personal and corporate banking, investment banking, private banking, venture capital, life and non-life insurance, securities broking, and asset management services to corporate and retail clients, high net worth...
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Analyst Opinions
Predict and Prevent – Insurance on the Cusp of Tumultuous Tech Transformation
The days of traditional insurance are slowly fading away with the advent of emerging technologies to better manage risk, automate claims, and enrich customer experiences. In this evolution, the sector is switching from the current ‘find and fix’ approach to ‘predict and prevent’, the trend which will accelerate as its stakeholders become more cognizant of the new technologies. Emerging technologies are becoming indispensable components across the sector value chain to benefit both insurers and their customers. AI, IoT, big data,...
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Sector Analysis
UK Protection Insurance 2018: Term and Whole of Life
The UK life protection insurance market for regular individual premiums grew in 2017, driven by growth of the term assurance market despite the whole-of-life market declining. Term market growth was primarily due to increased sales of non-mortgage term assurance policies by independent financial advisors, although sales in the direct channel are also increasing, reflecting demand to purchase life insurance online. Underwritten whole-of-life policies continue to be sold by independent advisors, while guaranteed acceptance over-50s products are sold direct without advice....
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Sector Analysis
Seizing the Global HNW Expat Opportunity
"Seizing the Global HNW Expat Opportunity", report sizes and analyzes the global HNW opportunity, and provides detailed recommendations on how to best target and service this segment. The report is based on our proprietary Global Wealth Managers Survey. Expats constitute 11.4% of the global HNW population, equating to 1.2 million individuals. This represents a sizable (albeit competitive) target market, with the US home to the largest number of HNW expats. However, it is the UAE, Singapore, and Hong Kong where...