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Following rapid changes in the payments ecosystem in 2016, we are now witnessing consolidation in the markets and among players. There are new challenges including security of payment apps, reaching target audiences beyond those in first-tier cities, and addressing questions of standardization.
In its third edition (after Bangalore and Mumbai), 50p will address the following the topics to understand the spectrum of payments and the issues that concern all the stakeholders in this ecosystem.
Digital and electronic payments
Technology challenges
Interoperability of payment methods
Wallets, payment banks
Credit & debit cards, IMPS and contactless payments
Payments by design in infrastructure
Security and authentication
Building payment products and business models
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Technology challenges
Building products and business models
Investments and alternate lending methods
Grievance redressal, Security and Authentication
Regulation and policy
Banking
Building products and services:
Technology challenges
Security, authentication and scaling
History of banking
Payments space in India
Regulatory challenges
Technology challenges
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Rohan Jahagirdar
@rohanj
Submitted Dec 11, 2017
In the last few years a number of online platforms have come up which allow consumers to go for a direct plan - ones that don’t involve parting with a hefty trail commission.
While MF distributors prey on the lack of financial education of consumers, these online platforms rely on consumers’ understanding of dynamics of investing.
Although going direct has a number of advantages, there is increasing evidence mounting against an investor’s ability to accurately estimate their risk attitudes and their abilities to save, using current tools.
Some of these biases can even go unnoticed by advisors (both distributors and fee-only) who don’t factor in irrationality as the norm in their estimation of their customers’ behaviour.
Financial institutions and their advisors must factor in traditional assumptions about irrationality built into their current tools in order to provide reliable, consistent and accurate financial advice for their clients.
As Mutual Funds gain prominence as one of the primary vehicles for investments, the argument of going Direct versus via distributor has gained significant traction.
This argument of going direct has also been given credence by growing awareness of practice of mis-selling. Mutual fund distributors (especially banks) have been accused of mis-selling to consumers by choosing products that pay higher commissions over better suited ones.
With growing evidence of this practice, the RBI, in a landmark move, in June 2017 amended the Banking Ombudsman Scheme to take up complaints against mis-selling.
In this talk, we explore how investors often fall prey to misselling due to biases introduced by the contextual settings and the framing of advice and their effect on financial advice.
Exploration of solutions to these biases and regulatory solutions to avoid them.
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Rohan is the co-founder of a new fin-tech startup, Base. Previously he has held leadership positions in NestAway and Teabox.
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