MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING STATE BANK OF VIET NAM BANKING UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY QUACH THI NGOC NHAN ANALYZING THE CHALLENGES THAT THE COMMERCIAL BANKS IN VIETNAM HAVE TO FACE WHEN THE FINTECH BUSINESS INCREASINGLY DEVELOPING BACHELOR THESIS SPECIALITY: FINANCIAL BANKING CODER: 7340201 HO CHI MINH CITY, 2018 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING STATE BANK OF VIET NAM BANKING UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY QUACH THI NGOC NHAN ANALYZING THE CHALLENGES THAT THE COMMERCIAL BANKS IN VIETNAM HAVE TO FACE WHEN THE FINTECH BUSINESS INCREASINGLY DEVELOPING BACHELOR THESIS SPECIALITY: FINANCIAL BANKING CODER: 7340201 ADVISOR PHD. DAO LE KIEU OANH HO CHI MINH CITY, 2018 i COMMENTS OF THE ADVISOR. Ho Chi Minh City, …………20… Advisor ii COMMENTS OF APPROVAL COUNCIL. Ho Chi Minh City, …… …… 201… Moderator of the council iii ABSTRACT The world is experiencing rapid innovation from technology, with breakthrough initiatives such as cloud computing, virtual reality technology,.
In the trend of international economic integration as today. These achievements are widely applied throughout the world and not just in Vietnam. The application of modern technology, applying the most advanced technology in the financial field is called Fintech. The year 2008 marked a new era of Fintech, Fintech definitions appeared and popular all over the world.
Fintech is today considered as the combination of the financial services and information technology together in parallel. This era is defined not by the financial product or services provided but defined by quickly put into practice the advanced technology application on retail and wholesale operations. The development of the FinTech was led by start-up businesses, and this led to challenges for financial institutions in the world, especially the challenge of balance between the benefits of innovation and the risks can occurs when applied the new methods. The year 2008 marked a new era of Fintech, Fintech definitions appeared and popular all over the world.
Fintech is today considered as the combination of the financial services and information technology together in parallel. This era is defined not by the financial product or services provided but defined by quickly put into practice the advanced technology application on retail and wholesale operations. The development of the FinTech was led by start-up businesses, and this led to challenges for financial institutions in the world, especially the challenge of balance between the benefits of innovation and the risks can occurs when applied the new methods. In global, Fintech was appeared in 1980s and developed strongly and stably, bring tremendous profits for major companies and contribute greatly to the development of the countries.
In addition, in middle of the year 2017 in Vietnam, there are more than 40FinTech companies are primarily active in the field of iv payments and had the strongly impressive marks. According to the IFC, in the year 2017, MoMo (specializing in the field of payment) and Trusting Social (specializing in lending) in the top 100 innovative companies and towards the comprehensive financial solutions in worldwide. With two companies of Vietnam in this list are world popular names such as TransferWise (specializing in the field of payment), Ant Financial (specializing in payment, financial plan, savings, loan). The rising rapidly of Fintech has changed the business landscape in banking asking for more innovative solutions.
These recent tendencies require the banks to increase investment in Fint ech, rethink service distribution channels, especially the business-to-consumers models, increase further standardization of back-office functions, etc. Some members of the financial services industry see the boom in FinTech as a threat to traditional banking industry. Others believe that FinTech has become a challenge that can be turned into an opportunity as it provides more flexibility, better functionality in some areas, and aggregation of services. Overall, this is the reason why I choose: “ANALYZING THE CHALLENGES THAT THE COMMERCIAL BANKS IN VIETNAM HAVE TO FACE WHEN THE FINTECH BUSINESS INCREASINGLY DEVELOPING” to be my graduation thesis.
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the recent trends in banking, identifying opportunities and risks of FinTech for banks. A timely integration of FinTech into business allows banks to get an advantage in growing competition. Thereby proposing petitions and solutions to help commercial banks overcome the challenges in advance of the rapidly developing of the Fintech companies. Identified the main risks related to development of FinTech and financial innovations the banks are exposed to on the micro- and macrolevel.
Recommendations for regulators and banks to ensure reduction of risks associated with development of FinTech. Analysis of FinTech market has shown growing competition, including from nonfinancial institutions. Providing practical recommendations to commercial banks for strengthening the position in financial v innovations and controlling the risks associated with introduction of financial innovations. Analytical methods to analyze the causes and effects of Fintech on the bank, compare those analyzes with previous research at home and abroad.
Next, analyze and synthesize solutions from previous studies, find solutions suitable to the economic model and development trends in Vietnam and answer the question "What are the actual developments of FinTech nowadays in Vietnam?''. and synthesize solutions from previous studies, find solutions suitable to the economic model and development trends in Vietnam and answer the question "What solution to harmonize Fintech's products and services?" The thesis is divided into 4 chapters: CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Brief description about reason for choosing the topic; Research objectives of the project, Object and scope of the study; Research Methods; Information of the research contribution; Research structure; Literature review. CHAPTER 2: Theoretical basis about Fintech and Banking services. Summary of the Fintech theoretical basis; The appearance of Fintech; Key segments of Fintech; Typical products; Impacts from Fintech changing the financial landscape; Definition of commercial banks; Financial services of commercial banks.
From these comparisons, readers can visualize the similarities in products and services that help Fintech become a competitor to the Bank in the future. Through chapter 3, the author will highlight the advantages of Fintech that will make the Bank will have difficulties in the future and the causes of those difficulties. CHAPTER 3: Challenges that commercial banks in Vietnam have to face when the Fintech business increasingly developing. The Current Situation and Development Trend of Fintech in Vietnam and Banks' Difficulties Presentation of Fintech developments in Vietnam; Development trend of Fintech; Difficulties of banks and their causes which covers 3 aspects: Demographic, Technology and distribution channels and products CHAPTER 4: Recommendations To help banks develop in line with new technology trends.
Proposing some recommendations to the Government and solutions for commercial banks; Some recommendations for Fintech business. The author is based on the real situation in vi chapter 3 about trends and developments of the current Fintech companies in Vietnam as well as the available knowledge and some surveys by other authors. related to the same owner so that some recommendations can be made to enable the Bank and Fintech companies to cooperate bilaterally. That requires a great deal of effort from the banks, with the help of the State having solid development strategies in the future to be able to achieve the same results as your country in the area where the author Please refer to the lessons learned.
The essay highlights the basic theories of Fintech companies, services of Fintech as well as banks, highlighting the current situation, how the development direction of the Fintech companies have impact on how to banking services. Through this, the author proposes recommendations that primarily establish co- operative relationships between banks and Fintech companies so that both of these financial actors can further develop and contribute to the economy. Besides, this thesis also mentions lessons learned from China, Singapore and India, countries experiencing difficulties like Vietnam, so that the Government and banks in Vietnam can refer and improve the finance industry. The author hopes that this thesis will serve as a reference for further research purposes on the subject of the latter and to provide Fintech and the bank with a more positive overview about each other in this competitive market.
However, due to short study time and limited knowledge, this essay may have g the valuable and useful inevitably mistakes. I hopefully look forward to reviewing comments of the teachers in the Council as well as the readers Author Quách Thị Ngọc Nhân vii SUMMARY Along with the development of the market economy, the demand of customers in the financial sector has also increased. Historically, banks and financial institutions have played an important role in providing financial services to their guests. However, the world is witnessing a technological revolution coming from a new financial institution - Fintech.
With financial products with its outstanding advantages, Fintech has soon got its own development market and more potential in the future. This is causing difficulties for current financial institutions in acquiring customers, so banks are the largest financial institution in the financial sector needing to devise a wise plan to face challenges for Fintech companies and maintaining their position in the market. This essay offers solutions to promote harmonious cooperation between Fintech companies and banks, with the necessary help from the State. From this partnership, the bank can improve operational efficiency and meet customers' needs with new products and services.
In addition, the thesis also discusses lessons from China, Singapore, India, countries that have experienced difficulties like Vietnam, for the completion and development of the financial sector of State and bank in Vietnam. viii PLEDGE I reaffirm the thesis "ANALYZING THE CHALLENGES THAT THE COMMERCIAL BANKS IN VIETNAM HAVE TO FACE WHEN THE FINTECH BUSINESS INCREASINGLY DEVELOPING " is my own article. This thesis has never been submitted for graduation at any university. This thesis is the author's own work, the research results are honest, in which there are no previously published content or the content made by others except the quotes full source in the thesis.
I will take full responsibility for my pledge. Author Quách Thị Ngọc Nhân ix THANK YOU First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the instructor of PhD. Dao Le Kieu Oanh dedicated her knowledge and supported her during the completion of my thesis. Next, I would also like to thank the teachers of Ho Chi Minh City University of Banking for opening up many opportunities for me to improve myself and at the same time create all the conditions for us to implement the project.
Finally, I would like to thank my family and friends, my loved ones who have always helped and encouraged me in the previous time. With the effort and desire to complete the graduation thesis, but due to the limited time of the study, the article could not avoid shortcomings, I would like to receive comments and contributions from teachers to The topic is completed and has higher practical value. Thank you sincerely, Author Quách Thị Ngọc Nhân x CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .4 Subject and the Scope .6 Information of the research contribution .7 CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL BASIS ABOUT FINTECH AND BANKING SERVICES .1 The appearance of FinTech in financial market .1 The main segment and products of the FinTech.2 The impacts from FinTech changing financial background .2 The theoretical basis of commercial banks .1 The appearance of commercial banks.2 The main segments of commercial banks .3 The financial services of commercial banks.4 How to the commercial banks affect on financial institutions .3 The relationship between FinTech and commercial banks in Vietnam .4 Challenges for commercial banks when the FinTech business appeared and rapidly developing.5 The experiences of foreign commercial banks in competition and integration cooperating with Fintech.38 xi CHAPTER 3: CHALLENGES THAT COMMERCIAL BANKS IN VIETNAM HAVE TO FACE WHEN THE FINTECH BUSINESS INCREASINGLY DEVELOPING .1 Developments trend of FinTech in Vietnam .2 Opportunities and challenges from Fintech Wave in Vietnam .1 Opportunities from Fintech industry .2 Difficulties that banks have to face .3 Reasons cause difficulties for commercial banks .1 The State Legal framework is not fully worked-out.2 The IT infrastructure of the banks has not advanced enough yet .