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Nurlan Zhagiparov (Kazkommertsbank): run a marathon at a sprint speed
— Nurlan, a few days ago, Kazkommertsbank announced the launch of a contactless NFC payment service using HCE (Host Card Emulation) technology. What are your expectations from this service? Is there such a vision that, say, in two years, paying with a smartphone will become as commonplace as it is today with a bank card?
– In general, we have reason to believe that the product will be in demand. By observing the change in the behavior of our customers, we see that people are increasingly using smartphones in their daily lives – naturally, this also affects their payment habits. I myself actively use Apple Pay and made sure that it is very convenient. Initially, there is some kind of psychological barrier, but it is overcome rather quickly, this is a matter of the first two or three transactions. Obviously, this is no more difficult than paying by card, and in many ways much more convenient. A modern person practically does not let go of the phone, and the payment procedure becomes a natural element of his mobile lifestyle.
In this project it was very important to create the infrastructure. This is what we have been doing for the last three years — we have been actively expanding the network of POS-terminals supporting contactless payments. It is important that a person has the opportunity to pay with an NFC card or smartphone. We have done a lot of work in this direction and today we have covered almost all the largest supermarkets, gas stations, shops. Starting from 2014, we do not supply terminals without contactless technology support to the market. Over the past year, we have made a big breakthrough and made sure that customers are interested in contactless payments – they began to pay in this way ten times more often than a year ago.
It is clear that the absolute values are still small, but practice shows that in some countries – in Poland, the Czech Republic, Australia, even Georgia – now every fourth, and sometimes every second transaction is contactless, because it is more convenient.
It is clear that the client will go for convenient services. Mobile payments are not the future, they are in fact a pattern that is developing in an evolutionary way. I think that soon people will begin to quickly switch to payments using smartphones, because now they spend much more time with a mobile device than in front of a computer.
As a confirmation, we can quote the statistics of our online banking users. Only a few years have passed since the launch of mobile applications, and already half of our Internet banking users have switched to using mobile iOS and Android applications – in terms of the number of users, in terms of their transactional activity. In fact, about half of customers prefer to use services through mobile applications. It is clear that not all services are suitable for a mobile format, there are products with complex shapes that you need to think about. And everything related to fast payments, of course, goes to mobile phones.
– Is it possible to expect that there will be a complete rejection of the card as a physical carrier? What will be the parity in two or three years between traditional card payments and smartphone payments?
— Of course, at first (in the next year) there will be a transitional period, a more curious, more advanced audience will start using the service. Then, probably, it will become an avalanche, and at some point, maybe half of all transactions will be made using mobile phones. I’m talking about the near future.
– Have you analyzed the situation in terms of support for smartphones that are currently on sale? What proportion of them support NFC?
— Yes, of course, we did this analysis and found that already about 80% of the phones that our customers now use to work with mobile applications support NFC. We focus on them first and foremost. We are talking about a two hundred thousandth audience that is already ready to work with this product.
There is such a correlation: as soon as a person starts paying in a contactless way, through a smartphone or through “plastic”, in general, his culture of non-cash payments grows one and a half to two times. He makes payments more often than a person who pays in the usual way.
— In general, how is the system of non-cash payments developing nationwide?
– Dynamic. In 2015, as far as I remember, the growth of cash withdrawal transactions began to slow down sharply. If earlier this figure grew by 20–25%, then last year it grew by 7–8% in terms of the number of transactions. If we talk about non-cash payments, last year there was a breakthrough. The number of transactions increased by 25–30%, which is very significant.
And this picture has been observed for several years in a row; the dynamics of non-cash payments is increasing at a faster pace. It is very good that more and more people are involved in the process. You can see it yourself: if you go to any supermarket and take out a card at the checkout, it will not come as a surprise. Yes, and in small shops it is becoming more common.
— A few years ago, a law was passed in Kazakhstan that required all retail outlets to accept cards for payment. Did he play a role in the spread of the cashless payment system, or is it more of an evolutionary course of events?
— We did not see an immediate effect from the legislative changes, I think that it will manifest itself after some time. In general, we see a great demand from entrepreneurs for the installation of terminals, for the first time after these innovations, two or three years ago, banks were not even ready for such an increase in demand. Now more economical technologies have appeared, and a large increase in the fleet of terminals is due to mobile innovative devices, mPOS.
— Does Kazkommertsbank offer entrepreneurs its own mPOS solutions or do you cooperate with some operators?
– We work with a Singaporean company, one of the largest in the region. In general, mobile acquiring technology is at an early stage of its development, and so far we do not see a big surge of interest in it, but overall the dynamics are good. A large number of merchants have appeared who began to accept cards for payment, while the amounts are small, but the coverage of the trading network is growing. At some point, quantity must turn into quality.
Even in the bazaar, some sellers have expressed their desire to accept cards, because they see the potential for sales growth in this. A buyer who paid in cash will continue to pay, but entrepreneurs are interested in attracting those who want to pay by card. Moreover, those who want to pay by card usually pay significantly more – their average check is higher, this is a more solvent client. Although, even if such a merchant actively offers to be paid by card, at best, 20% of customers will do this, that is, an insignificant part of the clientele.
— By the way, now they are talking about the digital divide, including in the banking sector. The rich are increasingly going into cashless transactions, while the poor are almost returning to barter in kind…
— In fact, we see that completely different models are developing in the world, including in countries with little banking penetration and a low standard of living. A striking well-known example is the MPesa project in Africa. In principle, a very applicable scheme is transfers and payments using a mobile balance, while the mobile phone becomes a kind of means of accumulation.
We recently announced a similar mobile product together with Beeline. We have launched a partnership service: people can pay for purchases online using their cell phone. We are currently working on the second and third stages. This is a cashbycode service – the ability to withdraw money from ATMs using only a mobile phone. We are planning to start paying for goods in stores from the balance of a mobile phone. This will lower the entry threshold for clients, increase their financial literacy, because we have a lot of people living outside the cities and for them non-cash payments are now practically inaccessible.
— In Russia, Beeline is also experimenting with banks to provide similar services, in my opinion, so far they are quite expensive for the consumer…
— It seems to me that it is a question of competition. We see that other mobile operators are not just interested, but are already working in this direction, so I think we will soon see their proposals. At least the consumer already has a choice – this is the main thing. Relatively speaking, he has the opportunity to pay quickly, here and now, or more reliably, more calmly, but standing in line.
— There was another interesting piece of news — about holding a hackathon under the auspices of Kazkommertsbank. How did the event go, are you satisfied with the results?
– Yes, this is now a fairly popular phenomenon, a hackathon, and there is actually nothing new or creative here, but in general this is an interesting approach. It was in the hackathon format that we held the event for the first time, although we have been practicing working with a young creative audience for a long time.
We created special laboratories at universities, attracted a lot of employees from there, and today they have achieved quite a lot of success: they headed departments, some continued their professional growth in different companies. I think this is a good format – work with young people, with those who have “burning eyes”.
It is clear that a bank is a large organization, it has its own framework, formats, and internal procedures. Sometimes we find ourselves limited in initiatives. We get used to thinking, as they say, “in a box”. This is one of the main ideas of such cooperation as a hackathon. This is pure headhunting, the search for talented youth. In addition, this is still an opportunity to take a non-standard, open-minded look at procedures, products, and offer something breakthrough.
By the way, hackathon participants will come to me today. We will discuss practical proposals from among the developments that they presented at the event. We want to take two or three ideas as a basis and bring them to their logical conclusion.
In general, a hackathon is a great opportunity for young people to express themselves. I myself, as a student, dreamed of participating in such an event. I remember going to organizations, offering, but no one wanted to take me on an internship. Now is the perfect opportunity to express yourself.
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— Among the tasks you are involved in, can you single out some priority, most significant projects?
– If we talk about large-scale priority tasks, we were busy with migration for almost the entire last year, we had a merger with a large bank BTA. That’s about a million customers plus the million we had.
We carefully studied approaches to the merger process, traveled, looked at examples abroad. We analyzed how large banks merged and often saw negative experiences. Clients fled, many migrations, in fact, failed.
Two banks with a different culture of work, with a different product range, millions of accounts, of course, it is quite difficult to combine. Nevertheless, we chose, perhaps, the most complex technological solution, within which we did the transfer of balances online. Clients did not need to come to the branch, change something – we achieved a minimum of inconvenience for them. The project was successfully completed, and ahead of schedule: it took us less than a year. But in fact, this year we were cut off from our daily work, including being deprived of the opportunity to launch new products. We have thrown all the main forces and resources into the migration project. As soon as everything stabilized, entered into working mode, we gradually began to start project after project.
— Was the migration project related to some kind of global modernization of the Bank’s IT infrastructure or was it more of a quantitative expansion?
– The main difficulties were associated with the transition from one system to another. Suppose BTA used a certain card system, we switched from it to our processing, this is a complex technological project. Doubled the scale, plus we had to negotiate migration with the vendor. It is clear that companies are not very welcoming when customers leave them. It was important to synchronize it all, to coordinate it, to formally close it all as much as possible.
Of course, we also had to prepare from the infrastructure side. If there are twice as many customers, then transaction activity doubles. It was necessary to prepare servers, storages, communications, everything else. It was also a complex and resource-intensive project. Moreover, all issues had to be addressed in parallel.
Further, it was necessary to teach people on the fly to work with new systems, not to paralyze operational work. The people who worked in the branches of BTA were not familiar with the technologies that were used in Kazkom. It was necessary to quickly deploy it, change it, train it, and this affects 15–20 different business processes. Issue, re-issue of cards, work with statements, contesting transactions, etc. – it was necessary to quickly teach people how to work in the new conditions. Clients do not understand these nuances, they, as usual, come to the branch, to the ATM and expect to receive the same service. It was probably one of the most complex IT projects in the history of banks in Kazakhstan, which will remain in the annals…
When we went to Turkey, Germany for references of similar projects, we were told: “Oh, what are you talking about? Forget it, get ready that at least 30% of customers will run away. So far, we can state that everything is working out for us. We managed not only to keep the base, but to maintain growth rates. If you look at how Kazkommertsbank grew before, how BTA developed, now the united structure continues to grow. We not only saved the business, but grew at the end of 2015, and quite significantly.
– If we talk about the current situation, work in a crisis, do you have to somehow tighten up, cut budgets? Or, perhaps, on the contrary, some preferences are provided to the transactional business with its opportunities to increase non-fee income?
— In principle, it’s a sin for us to complain, because our direction has always been treated quite well in terms of budgeting, that is, they have never been strongly clamped down. It is clear that we are an integral part of the bank, and if it is difficult in the country and the economy is falling, then naturally, there will be less business and money for everyone.
But the beauty of digital banking is that it allows you to work more efficiently in such conditions. If now a million customers a month come directly to the branches, then three million come through Internet banking, of which one and a half million come through mobile, that is, already now more customers come to the Bank through the mobile channel than through branches.
This is where the savings come in – we need to maintain far fewer staff to serve through this channel. Through ATMs, we already have eight million contacts a month, through POS-terminals – two million. These are just the main alternative channels, and it is important to continue this work. In general, we will continue to adhere to this strategy.
— Have you set any specific targets for the development of remote channels?
— Yes, we have internal approved plans, including plans for a branch network to transfer customers to digital channels, to popularize the Internet. One part of the business sees to it that, in principle, the client is brought, the second – to bring him to the second room, the third – to bring him to the next room, etc. To do this effectively, we need a Big Data team that can really analyze and segment it all correctly.
In general, what is called Big Data is a huge, endless niche for self-improvement. We have big plans in this area, a special service has been created, where a talented team works, prepares an ideology, practical approaches. The bank has a huge client base, processes a myriad of payments, we simply have no right not to do this.
There is also a big direction related to service improvement; while we were tied to migration, there was no way to deal with it closely. We are currently running a big project together with McKinsey to improve service in branches, improve service, properly motivate staff, and so on. This is a big program, designed for a year, we are now in the middle of this path.
Looking at the growth potential, we see great opportunities within our client base, we see great potential for the underbanked segments of the population. In general, according to a number of indicators (say, the number of products per client), using one Internet banking is not enough. There is still a huge potential for the development of us as a Bank in a wide range of products, in new market segments, so we cannot say that we are pushing like three hippos in a small puddle. Ahead is a sea of opportunities for development, so we are optimistic about the future. Right now, the conditions are becoming more competitive, customers have a large selection of products, a large selection of banks – perhaps even unreasonably large.
The time has come for the demanding, discerning, intelligent customer who compares, demands, complains, etc. Among other things, this provides an opportunity to manifest more mobile, more mobile organizations.
— Can you imagine what your client wants?
– Of course, here I am talking to you, sometimes I look at the screen. I constantly receive complaints from clients and the answers to them from my colleagues, I monitor this process. Usually a client who has a desire to write complains that no one sings praises to us. Right now, they write from the Internet bank: “Your experience is bad, the interface is ancient, it doesn’t really work.” This is normal, we must work with each such appeal, see what can be improved. It would be criminal not to work with it. Any client can come in and scold us, but at least this is an opportunity to treat their sores, to keep in touch with clients. And, of course, people are pleased when we understand and answer, react.
An example was given in a speech. A man is flying on a plane, and he is unhappy: why is wi-fi not working? If you look at it through the eyes of another person, it’s wonderful: you can fly from one point of the world to another in eight hours, rest, drink, eat during the flight. But still there is a dissatisfied person: the Internet connection is bad or something else.
It is clear that many things change over time. Of course, we are now looking at the ongoing processes more from the point of view of competition. We see that the paradigm of the banking business is changing, that companies have appeared that have no boundaries and can easily engage in lending, all kinds of payment services, and landing banking. Some already have some gigantic loan portfolios.
It is obvious that the banking business itself will also undergo significant changes and modernization. It is already changing, and it will probably only intensify further, because entry is becoming easier. Accordingly, you need to run faster and faster. Now we have to run a marathon at a sprint speed, and, apparently, not everyone will make it…
— So, is it worth it now for young people to focus on working in the banking sector?
— It’s not just about the banking sector, in fact, now there are huge opportunities for IT specialists. This is a fairly well-paid profession – probably one of the most prestigious now on the market. This really makes it possible to have a piece of bread, and a person is not tied to any place. In general, I encourage young people to go in this direction, because it is not just promising, but is an integral part of the present. It is obvious that computer technologies capture all spheres of our life, it is important to understand them well so as not to be left out of history.
Everyone is now discussing the success of Uber, but they are developing, they are going to introduce driverless when there are no drivers left as such. In general, after some time, many professions will die out.
— Did blockchain and cryptocurrencies come up at your hackathon? Do you try these technologies on yourself, do you see any practical cases in them?
— While we are in monitoring mode: we study, plan, communicate with experts. So far, the attitude is quite cautious. In general, we understand that this technology and, in general, everything related to decentralization and sharing is a promising trend, you can learn a lot of useful things there. There are new niches, new products.