In theory, a digital bank must avoid requirements relating to a normal bank, and
total control by the central bank. Given this, today the bank in Ukraine in no way will
be able to become digital.
As a result of the study, we identified the following key components of the
concept of the World Bank:
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Client centricity - solving client's problems at the time of his application;
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Personalization of offers - understanding the needs and requirements of each
customer to promptly provide optimal and individual solutions;
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Mobility - offers most of its products and services in digital format using
digital communication channels;
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Active involvement and participation of IT in the development of a business
strategy - since IT is a key factor in the digital business models of banks, IT directors
should be fundamentally involved in developing a business strategy (only if the IT
organization is involved in defining vision and strategic objectives bank, it can
adequately support the digital transformation of the business model);
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Focusing on the role of the integrator, not on the work of the developer - with
the constant digitization of the environment, increasingly diverse new services and
technologies arise in smaller cycles that can be used even without much adaptation
effort, so the role of IT organizations is increasingly reduced to execution the tasks of
integrating the various available services and technologies into the market so that they
are invariably suitable for the general application;
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Flexibility and high speed response to change while maintaining stable
performance. Rapid technical progress and the effects of changes in the banking
industry environment call on IT to rapidly implement and integrate innovative services
in existing IT applications and the infrastructure landscape with the obligatory
preservation of reliability and stability of operations and compliance with agreed levels
of service;
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Data management and protection. The cost of the available data in the bank
can be used optimally, only if the data created at different points of the company are
consistently combined.
According to forecasts by the chairman of the Spanish bank BBVA Francisco
Gonzalez, the so-called world-wide FinTech revolution may eventually destroy about
half of the "classical" banking institutions in the world. And, according to estimates of
the largest American bank Citi, the further growth of FinTech-startups will lead to the
fact that by the year 2025, 30% of banking employees (1.7 million) of the world
banking system will lose their jobs [6; 7].
In our opinion, FinTech is a dynamically developing segment of cross-cutting
financial services and technology sectors in which technology startups and new market
participants apply innovative approaches to products and services traditionally
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