Singapore
THE addressable loan market for Singapore's upcoming digital banks is estimated to be worth S$220 billion to S$243 billion, with these digital-only entities likely to catalyse loan growth in underserved segments, according to DBS Group Research.
For perspective, that's about a quarter of the local banks' total Q2 customer loan base of S$923 billion.
But even with such market potential, DBS analyst Lim Rui Wen reckoned that, over the medium term, open banking developments may be a bigger disruption force to traditional banks than the entry of digital banks.
As the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) spearheads efforts to make open APIs (application programming interface) available - and...