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Riding the AI Wave to Financial Tech Domination

The banking technology landscape is experiencing a momentous transformation, poised to reshape the financial industry over the next decade. This paradigm shift demands banks adopt digital technology and profoundly reevaluate their services to meet customers’ evolving needs. This transformation unfolds in a fiercely competitive arena, with many new entrants and established players in an ever-expanding market. The call for modernisation echoes throughout the banking sector, affecting every segment, organisation, and team.

To fully grasp the significance of this transformation, it’s essential to categorise the history of banking technology into five distinct waves, each representing a pivotal juncture in the evolution of the financial sector:

• Wave 1: Inception witnessed the advent of mainframes and card machines, primarily serving the purpose of record-keeping, general ledger management, and interest calculations.
• Wave 2: Progression ushered in the era of mini-computers and desktop terminals, introducing applications for branch automation and back-end operations.
• Wave 3: Expansion saw banking services transcend physical branches with server-based software accessible over networks
• Wave 4: The digital age emerged, compelling banks to explore online channels and deploy complex online systems.

BankTech Wave 5: The Current Frontier

The present epoch, BankTech Wave 5, centres on larger banks evolving into marketplaces. These marketplaces offer various financial services: cash management, lending, SME support, insurance, and more. BankTech Wave 5 stands as a true game-changer in the industry, encapsulating six imperatives collectively known as the ABCDEF of the Banking Ecosystem Design, all firmly grounded in the principles of Design Thinking. They are: Architecture, Base of eMACH.ai, Composable, Data, Embedded AI and Intelligence, Flexible and Extensible.

With our three decades of deep domain expertise and a Design Thinking mindset, we pioneered this wave, which saw the birth of the future of financial technology in the form of eMACH.ai (the world’s largest open finance platform) that helps banks and financial institutions compose their unique “My Signature Solution”.

eMACH.ai – Pioneering a New Era of Generative AI

In the ever-evolving banking and finance landscape, staying ahead of the curve and simplifying operations is paramount. eMACH.ai, the world’s largest and most innovative open finance platform, revolutionises the operations of financial institutions. It offers a comprehensive, composable, contextual platform that empowers financial institutions to design customer-centric solutions.

It converges and synthesises all of the IP assets described above – 285 Microservices, 200+ Events, and 1200+ APIs, offering many possibilities to match the imagination of Financial Ecosystem Designers and their customers alike.

This powerful combination of MACH architecture and AI helps in enabling the composability of Applications by assembling Microservices, connecting them through APIs and integrating with other applications or ecosystems using iTurmeric – Intellect’s MACH composable low code platform. This facilitates the faster and more agile design of Products and faster time to market. The platform leverages Embedded AI to deliver greater operational efficiencies, with more straight-through processed transactions, reduced cycle times and greater data accuracy.

Technology trends and Intellect’s early mover advantage

Externally, two key technologies significantly impacted the Market – Cloud and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML). Our products and Platforms are MACH compliant – ready for deployment on the Cloud and leverage AI/ML for operational efficiencies and faster, incisive decisions.

Cloud technology also laid the foundation for Platforms and Ecosystems, which potentially enhance the value proposition to our customers by being able to blend and choreograph applications and solutions from across vendors seamlessly to create ‘My signature solutions’. As markets adopt these trends, Intellect is uniquely positioned to monetise this opportunity, leveraging the eMACH.ai platform, IDX (Intelligent Document eXchange) and iTurmeric MACH composable technology.

Intellect 3.0 – Our next growth charter

With the above Market trends and our readiness to capture the opportunity canvas, we hosted Lakshya 2023 earlier this year to envision the Intellect 3.0 journey over the next 3-5 years. We are upbeat and ebullient at the end of this exercise and have summarised the outcomes below

1. Accelerated growth: Current platforms and products are poised for significant expansion over the next 3-5 years
2. Enhanced profitability: Investments in architecture, referenceability, and technology will drive improved financial performance
3. Geographic expansion: We’re ready to capitalise on opportunities in new markets, leveraging existing customer relationships
4. Platform incubation: New platforms will be developed as future growth engines
5. Strong partnerships: Building a robust partner ecosystem will expand our reach and facilitate technological collaboration
6. Customer migration: We’ll be the trusted technology partner, helping customers migrate to BankTech Wave 5

With the appropriate design of organisation, talent, systems & processes, business models, technology and infrastructure, brand building and funding, further accelerate our growth and profitability in Intellect 3.0. Onward to Intellect 3.0 and beyond!

Intellect reinforces its financial technology leadership with the launch of the authoritative, insightful & agenda setting Intellect Research Publication

Intellect recently launched the inaugural edition of Intellect Research Publication – a compendium of insightful articles that will set the agenda for banks and financial institutions who are looking to become cognitive and digital enterprises. At Intellect Research Publication (IRP) we believe that the world’s banking and financial institutions can grow exponentially if they harness the power of contextual & composable financial technology. IRP is built on the principles of Expertise, Evidence and Experience making it the most authoritative publication in an industry that lacks a single source of intellectual content on the subject. It offers authoritative insights, analyses, and commentaries on the latest industry trends and a forward-thinking resource that empowers Digital and Cognitive Enterprises to navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and drive sustained success.

Download the book – https://www.intellectdesign.com/intellect-research-publication/

eMACH.ai & Intellect Design Thinking Residential Programme for Exponential Growth

Intellect hosted a two-day eMACH.ai & Intellect Design Thinking Residential Program for Exponential Growth in Chennai on October 9 and 10. The event brought together 37 top leaders from India’s banking sector, embarking on a journey to explore cutting-edge dimensions in financial technology through Design Thinking. The two-day workshop was split into two sessions: Day 1 focused on “Design Thinking for Digital Enterprise”, while Day 2 delved into “Design Thinking for Cognitive Enterprise”. Click the links below to read more about day-wise activities.

Design Thinking for Digital Enterprise

Design Thinking for Cognitive Enterprise