Fintech and CBDC - Modern trends in banking

Financial Technologies, or abbreviated FinTech, is the name used for companies that develop or use the latest information technology in order to improve financial services. Their development requires considerable experience and knowledge from the existing financial market and banking. These companies focus on the end user in order to develop the best technological solutions for providing financial services by observing and studying their needs and habits, with the help of rapid technological development in the IT sector, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the slowness and imposition of strict conditions for the banking sector and its corresponding regulations. The emergence of such companies lately and their rapid penetration into the market has begun to threaten the position of traditional banks and even induce customers to leave the traditional financial institutions such as banks. Banks are becoming aware of the growing competition from Fintech companies and are trying to find satisfactory solutions to keep their customers. At the same time, in the era of general currency digitization and the development of crypto-currency, banks also face the challenge on the other side, which comes from the Central Banks. Central banks have begun to consider issuing their digital currency CBDC - the central bank digital currency, or the digital form of existing money as a legal means of payment, such as current banknotes and coins. This changes the direction of supply of money for the new digital economy from the state, that is, from the level of the Central Banks, which would change from different forms of crypto-currency, such as bitcoin etc. at CBDC. These banks are facing new challenges because the Central Banks can become competitors to commercial banks in the segment of deposit and payment transactions. This sets new tasks and regulatory challenges to the banking system in terms of carefully regulating the relationship of the Central Banks as regulatory institutions and systems of commercial banks in the future.