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Banking CIO Outlook | Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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With digitisation taking over the banking sector, the industry is reshaping its priorities and services lately, using automation techniques for an enhanced customer experience and productive growth in the domain.
FREMONT, CA: Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and big data initiatives are driving transformations in the retail banking sector for better optimisation of processes and improving customer experience. Yet, prioritising the right technologies for enhanced consumer prioritisation remains uncertain. Various trends in retail banking are emerging lately to promote effective banking management.
An efficient decision-making process in the financial sector is generally favoured by data as it holds the capability to trigger accurate decisions using topical analytics on account of accelerating data quality and quantity. Generally, financial institutions leverage data to enable risk modelling where potential threats are figured out before the damage breach. It enables the effective rectification of the developing pitfalls in the sectors with the expert solutions suggested by the financial leaders. Meanwhile, a compact arrangement of data helps in the timely detection of fraudulent activities via constant monitoring of financial transactions by internal regulators. Personalisation of customer data is another milestone approach for banks to enhance their overall user performance. Hence, financial institutions are extending their data fabrics through management and analytics tools for greater insight accuracy.
Similarly, with digitised retail banking emerging as the renounced norm, companies are beginning to adopt automation in the ecosystems to achieve sustainability. In addition, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Digital Process Automation (DPA) are escalating in the sector to eliminate redundancy in processing and thus improve workflow efficiency. The IoT devices' efficiency is anticipated to surpass 50 million by 2025, with 50 per cent of internal banking procedures to be carried over via automation in correspondence with the elevating progressions in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Therefore, financial leaders are becoming highly dependent on AI-based algorithms for the refined authentication of customer identities. Likewise, a thorough knowledge of deep learning and natural language processing algorithms favours maintaining a plausible efficiency rate in banks through automating repetitive and human-reliant tasks. The customer-service sector, to assist customers with real-time services, is already exploiting these digitised elements.
Consumers often seek personalised interactions with financial institutions, be it payment, information, or loan application, to retain privacy. Alongside, prioritising their needs encourages wider investments and a user-friendly experience. The competitive level in the finance sector has been escalating in recent times, where companies adapting digital enhancements are becoming crucial that could impress their customers and thus improve their retention rate. Hence, facilities such as contactless payments and progressive investment solutions are at their peak lately to satisfy Gen Z and Millenials, the future generations.
Therefore, financial leaders are switching to digitised solutions like contactless payments, data security, and progressive retail services in the sector to please their customers and ensure a progressive outcome in the future.
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