As our technology expands and innovated, the traditional banking industry is having a hard time keeping up with the changes, especially through the utilization of the blockchain technology in cryptocurrency. In addition, politicians have their different views and perceptions about crypto. Thus, inducing various effects on cryptocurrency adoption and banking industry that might lead banks to have various challenges and affects local payments as well as international transactions in many aspects.According to this
article, Donald Trump's view regarding Bitcoin and Crypto is not money,
"having a value that is highly volatile based on thin air"
This statement of Donald Trump regarding crypto might have a huge impact on the people who have insufficient ideas regarding crypto and might lead them to distrust the entire system at all.
On the other hand, here are lists of Politicians that are Pro Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology according to this
article:
- Jared Polis
- Dan Elder
- George Galloway
- Andrew Hemingway
- Gulnar Hasnain
- Rand Paul
- Rick Perry
United with one view that is for the world to continue utilizing and develop Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, it can certainly affect the performance of the banking industry, especially when people will choose cryptocurrency over banks, Thus, creating friction between the two-party. There is an article though not directly related to cryptocurrency's effects on banks through it, we can foresee that technological innovation and development leads banks to suffer instead of it to further develop.
According to Digitalist Magazine in the Article:
4 Top Challenges Facing the Banking IndustryOne of the challenges that the banking industry has is increasing competition from financial technology companies. I might be biased here, but the technology behind cryptocurrency is comparably more efficient in terms of sending and receiving money locally and internationally. In banks, they always need verification for security purposes, if one needs to send and receive money, they need to take a lot of process for it. In terms of withdrawal, though banks have their online systems, it takes days from PayPal to send money to bank accounts and lastly, the transaction speed of crypto is quite far beyond the transaction speed of bank, sometimes, they need to transfer fiats from bank to bank compared to cryptocurrency.
In addition, there is a regulatory pressure that banks are required to follow in order to keep up with the increasing requirements. Though the regulation is healthy for a system to run smoothly, it is ironic that this regulation is the reason why banks are slow in processing the transactions from people. On the other hand, through cryptocurrency, it's decentralized characteristics without heavy regulation and no regulation at all by any third party makes people feel the real smooth transaction and conveniency.
I will ask you this question. Would you rather transact locally and internationally through banks? or grab the opportunity to see the underlying benefits we have through crypto?