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Digital Banking Manifesto: The End of Banks?
Alex Lipton, David Shrier, Alex Pentland Connection Science & Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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DIGITAL BANKING MANIFESTO: THE END OF BANKS?
This paper is part of our financial technology innovation series:
Blockchain & Financial Services
5th Horizon worked Innovation
Transactions, Markets & Marketplaces
Infrastructure (Identity, Data Security)
Mobile Money & Payments
Prediction Markets
Policy & Financial Technology
Digital Banking Manifesto
Disclaimer
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have financial or other relationships with one or more entities described in this document. No endorsement, implied or explicit, is intended by discussing any of anizations or individuals mentioned herein, and is expressly disclaimed.
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DIGITAL BANKING MANIFESTO: THE END OF BANKS?
I. Introduction
"Banks are trying to be cool and hip and build super cool digital front ends... But it’s like putting lipstick on a pig - ultimately it’s still a pig and the new front end is still running into an awful digital back end."
Mark Mullen, Chief Executive Atom, Durham, UK
We are entering a new era of innovation that will reshape consumers’ relationships with their banks. In order to understand how banking will evolve in the digital age, it is
important to understand its basic premise. While reasonable people can disagree about nuances, at heart, the art of banking is one of skillful record keeping in the double-entry general ledger. At micro level, banks can be thought of as dividend producing machines seeking deposits and issuing loans. At macro level, they are creators of credit The main determinants of their quality and reliability are the amount of capital and the level of liquidity (essentially central bank money) they keep. In general, a bank would like to maintain the right levels of