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What is PaaS? What role does it play in the financial institution?

With the financial institutions continuously balancing the competitive demands for the investment roles in their tech maintenance, compliance, innovation and with the delivery of the value added services, everything feels like a necessity rather than a liability and that can be difficult. For some institutions services like outsourcing strategy payments can enable them to pose a better balance in their investments which can focus more on the rapid delivery of the brand new capabilities and ideas hat add more base value.

The industry is facing multiple changes and this is making it hard to shift the focus to new innovations. It has become a continuous process of the customers to expect a continual product innovations and to have this experience across various channels. There is also structural changes such as convergence of payments, which is also becoming a barrier.

Now witnessing the challenger banks and the fintechs with full implementation of digital tools, such as the cloud in order to optimize their processes and produce transformational customer experiences. Snowballing the choices of availability for the customers is one way to initiate the payments through card and non-card payment rails and is leading to the further demand for revolution and change. As a result, many financial institutions are reviewing the costs and operational effort required to maintain payments technology in-house and considering how new innovations can be implemented. These institutions have an opportunity to leverage the ideas to stay ahead of time in these competitions. And this can come in the form of the Payments-as-a-service (PaaS). PaaS is bringing additional benefits such as savings in capital costs, opportunity costs and compliance as well as reduction of off-costs with is linked with the infrastructure or tech upgrades.

A financial institution may have to focus more and invest more time and effort on the customer innovation and experience to drive that base value and outsourcing payments to PaaS can allow this and make it easy too. PaaS can also help lead other benefits such as reduced capital expenses and increased free cash flow. Also helps to navigate the present environment in a further direction and the capital investment can be thoroughly analyzed. Adding to this. One more benefit of outsourcing to a PaaS is its ability to leverage its expertise. Investing in the robust platforms is one of the many areas which is crucial to focus on, for the financial sectors to consider and it is a primary business for the PaaS providers. So it is the job of the providers to regularly keep in check and hire the apt person to do the jobs which support and innovate the tech further.

As payments become more commoditized and traditional payment revenue streams decline, the case of recollecting the payment processing internally may become tighter.

This Covid-19 pandemic has released payments innovation into the limelight. To completely understand how the changes should be implemented which will respond to this lateral shift, a complete taxation of existing technology, and its affects in the business for the long-term is a must. Adopting PaaS will bring about a wealth of financial and operational benefits which will help in enabling a financial institution to be alert and strategic so that it can dedicate more resources to novelty while providing services and experiences which customers expect and differentiate from the competition with the other challengers.

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