Digitization and automation are significantly impacting employment in the banking sector. Vikram Pandit, former Citigroup CEO, estimates that 30% of banking jobs will be lost to technology in the next 5 years. As jobs are eliminated, roles in the banking sector are changing and requiring new skills related to areas like credit risk modeling, transaction forensics, and blockchain development. Re-skilling existing employees is necessary for banks to adapt to technological changes and the transition to more digital operations.
Digitization and automation are significantly impacting employment in the banking sector. Vikram Pandit, former Citigroup CEO, estimates that 30% of banking jobs will be lost to technology in the next 5 years. As jobs are eliminated, roles in the banking sector are changing and requiring new skills related to areas like credit risk modeling, transaction forensics, and blockchain development. Re-skilling existing employees is necessary for banks to adapt to technological changes and the transition to more digital operations.
Digitization and automation are significantly impacting employment in the banking sector. Vikram Pandit, former Citigroup CEO, estimates that 30% of banking jobs will be lost to technology in the next 5 years. As jobs are eliminated, roles in the banking sector are changing and requiring new skills related to areas like credit risk modeling, transaction forensics, and blockchain development. Re-skilling existing employees is necessary for banks to adapt to technological changes and the transition to more digital operations.
ON EMPLOYEMENT THREATENED JOBS Digitization in banking industry leads to the closing of thousands of branches.(Employees losing their jobs)
Global banks cutting nearly 80,000 jobs this year, most
since 2015 | American Banker, 2019 Banking sector to witness 30% job loss due to technology: Vikram Pandit
Technology is going to hit the job market in the banking sector
massively and it is going to cut nearly 30 per cent of the jobs in the industry, according to Vikram Pandit, former Chief Executive Officer, Citigroup.
Projecting the threat behind technology developments,
Pandit said that in the next five years several jobs in the banking sector will disappear. CHANGING JOB ROLES IN BANKING
Early detection of credit card fraudulent transactions
Anticipate threats and security breaches and prepare to prevent information theft and misuse Analytics based on web proxies logs, access logs and VPN logs
Credit risk stress modeling
Market risk and exposure analysis Risk aggregation reporting Transaction and anti money laundering forensics
Process modeler expert
Review current processes for higher efficiencies Identify areas improvement through process automation Create and implement solution for inefficiencies
Design, develop and deliver complex distributed ledger/blockchain technology application
Building out middleware and application layer systems that leverage predominantly the ethereum block chains REQUIRED KEY SKILLS FOR NEW JOB ROLES IN BANKING RE-SKILLING THE EMPLOYEE
Why reskilling at banks matters more than ever?
The future work wont be about degrees, it will be
about skills.” says Stephane Kasriel,CEO OF Upwork.
Since employees in banking sector were adapted
to doing their routine and repetitive job so re-skilling them with new skills such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing etc. is necessary for smooth running of banks and for taking the process of digitization ahead.