Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance

Hi Fintech Futurists,


There’s an enormous gap between the financial needs of humanity
and what the financial sector is able to deliver there. This gap
is being filled by tech-savvy solutions and embedded finance
plays which are putting into question the role of a bank in this
new ecosystem.


Simon’s recent analysis suggests that Embedded Finance is merely
a decade out from offering a new, very large addressable market
opportunity worth over $7 trillion, which is
twice the combined value of the world’s top 30 banks today.


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Excerpt

Simon Torrance:
So let's take an example here. Standard Chartered is quite a good
example, based out of Singapore, but a big bank in Southeast Asia
and Africa. And this example is quite good because their core
business, like all banks, is suffering. And so they created a
separate...


Lex Sokolin:
Sorry to interrupt. But I just want to highlight that their core
business, the core business of Standard Chartered, is they're in
the business of suffering. To be suffering, is their core
operating activity.


Simon Torrance:
Yes, exactly. Exactly. Quite cleverly, very cleverly, what
they've said is that we've got the core business, which is all
about suffering, as you say, and we need to optimize that, but
we've got to do something to get out of this rut we're in. So
they created a separate unit called SC Ventures to try and invent
the future and fast track that future and to do it away from all
the old metrics and culture and everything in the core business,
because you cannot do breakthrough innovation within the
core.

And that business is proving pretty dynamic now. It's spinning
off a lot of ventures, working with entrepreneurs to do so, and
one of the ventures is something called Nexus, which is a
bank-as-a-service proposition. And this is publicly available
information. They've essentially created their own FinTech
business in this space in embedded finance and put a lot of
investment into it.


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