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Salil Ravindran

Salil Ravindran

VP, Strategy & Growth at Open Financial Technologies
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The Need to Reboot Small Business Lending in the United Kingdom

23 Sep 2022

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom are undergoing a period of resurgence after the impact of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Barclays SME Barometer, in Q2 2022, UK SMEs reported an 11.4% increase in revenues compared to the same period in 2021. At the same time, the segment has been undergoing a systemic t...

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Innovation in Financial Services

Are banks adopting wallets and contactless the right way

30 Dec 2011

NFC contactless and m-wallets have a significant role to play in the future of mobile financial services and mobile commerce. As much as we know this for a fact, banks have been sceptical in their minds and slow in their approach to embrace contactless payments while being much slower on wallets. The million dollar question is whether they are doi...

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Banks Ignoring Tablet Growth and Potential

  Jim, Not to forget the potential of tablets in business/corporate banking space. Most treasurers/corporate users I talk to show strong interest in native tablet apps that can render business critical functionalities like cash positions, cash flow forecast, authorisation of payments and authorisation of forex deals. Mobile phones do not stack up with the best UX in this area. Secondly, enterprise mobility is a huge area of potential for tablets that banks should tap into. We havent seen many state of the art industry verticalised enterprise mobility apps yet.

11 Nov 2013 Reply Read article

'I slept with Keira Knightley'

  Lot of things around privacy for sure but couldnt help 'peep' in when this finextra mail alert came in! :-)

09 Sep 2013 Reply Read article

Spend more on personal care and less on technology, wealthy customers tell banks

  This segment hardly cares about technology at the delivery point. Considering how they are pampered by wealth advisors, that is the only channel of interest to them. Having said that insight led advices can only be enabled by technology and hence one should never rule out the role of technology.

13 Nov 2012 Reply Read article

Gen-M and why they are abandoning face-to-face

  Agree Brett. Did not mean to say PFM hasnt taken off since there is no perceived need for it but was exactly pointing to the lack of effort from banks to provide the 'instant gratification' you mentioned CRED - will try it when you come into Netherlands :-) Salil

09 Oct 2012 Reply Read article