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In today’s fast-moving and connected world, 5G is poised to revolutionize businesses across multiple sectors of society. As the technology offers 10 times faster speed than 4G, it will also enable higher connection frequency in terms of various connected devices for each receiving unit and lower latency. Today, the finance industry has become the early adopter of digital technology. From ATMs to online and mobile banking, 5G is doomed to transform multiple business processes in the finance sector.

Since mobile usage continues to expedite a rapid pace, customers are actively looking for new services to avail of emerging technologies. Meeting these evolving demands, AT&T and IDG research revealed that in recent years, 81% of financial institutions have made technology changes at the corporate and branch level.

Let’s have a look at how 5G will power the finance industry.

Wearable Devices Influenced by 5G

Wearable devices are already gaining massive traction as a significant channel for mobile payments, and it is likely to augment even more in the coming years, with 5G. Earlier, wearable devices have relied on local authentication using biometric data to enroll fingerprints and then scrutinize them against a new scan each time when the user accesses the device. Connecting to the cloud using 5G technology, these devices could share that data with financial services and with each other, potentially with even more reliability and lower latency than ever before.

Data Collection and Wealth Management

Gleaning a uniform stream of customers’ data, the ability of 5G will assist banks to perform more than just securing their accounts. Its low latency bandwidth offers real-time information gathering and delivery of data, including location, payment information, and opening ways for new artificial intelligence-powered personal banking services. This automated financial assistant could remind customers that they are reaching a weekly budget limit for entertainment services when they go to the cinema, or suggest new ways to save at the grocery store. By leveraging high-speed, low-latency services, financial institutions could provide advice that is more precise and matters a lot.

Engaging More Customers

With 5G, experts consider its benefits are expected to exceed beyond customers. By utilizing this technology, financial professionals will be able to leverage them in order to create more efficient back-end processes. In insurance, damage appraisers could practice 5G-enabled high-speed connectivity to send dozens of photos back to the head office at a rapid pace, without delaying or having to wait to reach their office or home network. The technology could also enable insurance companies to serve customers more quickly and automatically, particularly while integrating claims adjustment processes with AI.

So, as 5G enhancements create a more reliable, and responsive networks, it can assist banks and other financial organizations to make sure more productive, efficient and secure future.