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ARTICLE

Innovation in Digital
Banking Enhancing
Customer
Experience

                                           Amit Joshi

                                           Senior Manager
                                           Punjab National Bank
                                           Marketing Division

T he way banks define digital              where the likes of Amazon, eBay have    more into advice centres, as custom-
             today centers on browser-     transformed digital customer experi-    ers are encouraged to use self-service
             based banking, mobile         ences, banks now realizes that if they  terminals to do everything from
             apps and tablet apps.         fail to respond now, non-banking or-    transferring money to depositing cash
             Eventually, digital delivery  ganizations will step in to own the     or checks. Moreover, transaction
will extend beyond these channels          customer experience.                    data collected via these tools high-
and devices. "Digital will start to be                                             light cross-sales opportunities for
redefined with emerging form factors       Banks are also closely monitoring       these banks.
like smart watches, smart TVs and          predictive modeling approach of
also laptops that can run native soft-     online retailers to generate cash-flow  There are five guiding principles of a
ware similar to the way phones and         projections for consumers. KeyBank's    strategy for innovation in digital bank-
tablets run apps today."                   latest money management app,            ing:
                                           myControl banking, can help custom-
It is predicted that the use of online     ers predict what their daily bank bal-  1. Anticipation- Anticipate customer
video for both sales and service will      ances will look like until their next   needs and guide them to the relevant
increase significantly and will see        paycheck.                               product or offers quickly. For ex-
banks experiment more with other                                                   ample, the landing page should be
uses for video, such as video tellers in   Banks are now ramping up their          able to recognize if a particular user
branches and using video banking to        websites with features such as per-     is a new visitor or returning customer
provide a human touch via remote           sonalized pages and intuitive naviga-   before serving content.
touchpoints.                               tion, to enhance customer experi-
                                           ence. The traditional brick-and-mor-    2. Insight- Leverage analytics, data
Taking a cue from the retail sector        tar retail branches too are moulding    mining and other technologies to un-

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