Room for Improvement — Post-pandemic environment sees more than 62 percent of APAC SMEs less than satisfied with traditional banks across a range of categories
JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 11, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FICO (NYSE: FICO)
Highlights
Impact of COVID-19 on SMEs:
67 percent of Indonesia’s SMEs expect to take up new or alternative borrowing products in 2022
An overwhelming majority (70 percent) of APAC SMEs are less than satisfied with access to credit from their main bank
Other issues with traditional banks include lack of transparency, information, and guidance
The top loan decision driver for APAC SMEs across the board is competitive interest rates (41 percent)
New insights from RFI Global (prepared for FICO based on research from the SME Banking Council) reveal early signs that traditional banks in Indonesia are at risk of losing small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) business to non-traditional competitors.
Amidst strong interest in borrowing funds, between 62-70 percent of APAC SMEs are less than satisfied with their main bank’s level of support in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Nearly 70 percent of Indonesia’s SMEs expect to take up new or alternative / non-traditional borrowing products in 2022.
More information: https://www.fico.com/en/latest-thinking/white-paper/what-do-smes-need-their-banking-providers-post-pandemic
"The pandemic put a sudden, massive burden on SMEs, globally, and they didn’t think banks did enough to help them," said Aashish Sharma, senior director of decision management solutions in Asia Pacific for FICO. "Indonesia’s SMEs have made it clear that they require financial support in 2022 but are less optimistic about getting it from their main banks. This is a potentially worrying trend for traditional banks, considering there are over 62 million SMEs in Indonesia, which is one for every five Indonesians."
Verdict: Room for Improvement
Banks need to understand what’s causing SMEs to consider alternative funding sources. Survey respondents across the Asia Pacific region pointed to frustrations with the typical funding process of traditional banks and identified room for improvement[1] in their Covid-19 response across a range of funding related factors including:
Access to credit (70 percent)
Financial assistance (69 percent)
Information and guidance (68 percent)
Transparency re: decisions and processes (68 percent)
Speed of response (64 percent)
SMEs call for competitive rates, simplified processes
According to this latest research, when choosing a loan provider or financial institution, the top three drivers for Indonesian SMEs are:
Competitive interest rates
Ease and speed of application process
The ability to obtain the credit amount required.
"Alternative lenders have the potential to gain ground based on the challenges identified by this research and by our own market observations," said Sharma. "However, the opportunity is there for traditional banks to retain borrowers if they understand those key decisioning criteria alongside the challenges and funding support sentiments of SME and the themes that have emerged."
"If traditional banks are to experience continued and sustainable business growth from the SME segment in the APAC region, they must simplify the application process and improve transparency, as well as customer experience," continued Sharma. "From the banks’ risk management perspective, they can support these efforts with scalable, well-informed decisioning tools that can both speed up the process for all and minimize risk."
The results speak for themselves
One of Australia’s top-four banks wanted to boost sales and margins by cutting down decision-making time, whilst improving lending services and identified the SME segment as an area for growth. It invested in FICO Platform and analytic services to create an automated, machine learning-powered digital lending solution that utilized transaction data. Risk model performance improved by 10 percent, and the bank’s projections for annual lending to existing SME customers and incremental lending to new SME customers increased by AUD $6.5 billion and AUD $800 million, respectively.
The findings from RFI Global examined and analyzed two years’ worth of polls by the SME Banking Council, which gathers the thoughts and feelings of SME owners and operators with financial decision-making responsibility for businesses with an annual revenue of up to USD $10 million. The insights in this release represent the results from the SME Banking Council’s 2019 and 2021 surveys to provide a before and after comparison of lending demand and business sentiment in the two time periods. Over 4,700 respondents from across the Asia and Oceania regions participated. SG: n=720; MY: n=1044; ID: n=737; IN: n=729; NZ: n=1036; AU: n=508
About FICO
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