20%-30%
boost in profit
30%
savings
14%
churn reduction

About Smart Banking AI by BCG X

When it comes to being customer centric, banks have an advantage: a trove of data, everything from transaction histories, product usage, and risk profiles to online searches and campaign responsiveness. But they also have disadvantages: legacy technology, data scattered across the organization, silos instead of synergies. This makes it hard to create a comprehensive customer view—let alone to leverage AI in banking solutions.

Smart Banking AI from BCG X addresses these challenges head-on, making it simpler to bring data into a single platform, apply the latest technology for AI in financial services, and reach out to the right customer with the right action, when and where it matters.

BCG’s analytics-based software solution – SmartBanking AI - delivers pivotal customer insights, empowers relationship managers with high-value leads, and redefines the customer experience, allowing banks to convert their data into customer value.

How Smart Banking AI Works

The Benefits of Smart Banking AI

Financial services is about relationships. Bankers—in particular, relationship managers—continually strive to better understand and engage their customers. Deeper relationships are more effective—and more rewarding, for bank and customer alike.

Smart Banking AI creates visibility by consolidating customer information from different departments and systems (including data on products, transactions, behaviors, and interactions) onto one central platform. Then it leverages that data to do even more:

Our Unique Approach to AI in Banking Solutions

Through tailored machine-learning algorithms, Smart Banking AI unearths the treasure within your data, delivering qualified leads, attrition alerts, early credit risk warnings, and much more. It helps banks see patterns and respond with foresight and precision, working with—or even around—existing IT environments. Unique features accelerate the journey:

Who Benefits from Smart Banking AI by BCG X

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Relationship Managers. By identifying emerging needs, revenue opportunities, and risks, Smart Banking AI helps relationship managers better understand their business and commercial banking customers, providing personalized, precise service that builds stronger relationships.
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Marketers. For retail banks, a comprehensive set of AI and personalization capabilities—ready for deployment but easy to tailor—enable one-to-one marketing, so banks can better align offers with the needs and circumstances of each customer.
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Senior Management. By providing full transparency across the client portfolio, Smart Banking AI gives managers better visibility into risks, opportunities, and progress towards goals—and lets them more quickly and more effectively adjust course.
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Distribution Teams. Advanced AI banking technology enables near-real-time identification and prioritization of asset management opportunities. Smart Banking AI provides a ranked list of advisors to engage with, along with background information and recommended topics for discussion.

Our Clients’ Success in AI Banking

8%
growth in revenue
Sales Enablement for a North American Bank
Predictive modeling and a full 360-degree customer view were two components of a sales process update for the bank’s business and commercial banking clients. Optimized cross- and up-sell leads and retention alerts have led to revenue growth of more than 8% of annual run-rate.
$75 million
in revenue
Credit Decision Making and Optimized Pricing for a Canadian Bank
Predictive models and 360-degree data helped a Canadian bank automate its credit decision making for business banking customers, achieving more than $25 million in annual savings. New algorithms were supported by new processes, including a steering mechanism to determine when decisions require manual assessment. A personalized pricing capability (optimizing pricing based on risk and customer characteristics) also sparked a revenue boost of more than $75 million.
€200 million
in revenue
Omnichannel Transformation at a European Bank
An end-to-end integration of data, analytics, content, and orchestration enabled a major European bank to shorten lead-processing times, deliver personalized messaging, and create more than 30 new triggers to identify sales opportunities. The bank expects its AI-empowered omnichannel approach (right customer, right product, right channel, right time) to have a €200 million revenue impact by 2025.
Our Experts

Our AI in Financial Services Consulting Team

Our AI banking experts help clients seize the full potential of AI in banking solutions by taking a holistic approach to building the right capabilities and operating model.

Managing Director & Partner

Stiene Riemer

Managing Director & Partner
Munich

Managing Director & Partner

Kiran Konanur

Managing Director & Partner
Toronto

Managing Director & Senior Partner

Michael Strauß

Managing Director & Partner
Cologne

Partner & Director

Marc Pauly

Partner & Director
Frankfurt

Managing Director & Partner

Anne Kleppe

Managing Director & Partner
Berlin

Managing Director & Partner

Aparna Kapoor

Managing Director & Partner
Singapore

Managing Director & Partner

Jakob Liss

Managing Director & Partner
Munich

Our Insights on AI in Financial Services

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