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Banking analytics can be successfully implemented by either winner in the 'Best Use of Data Analytics' category at
pure-play analytic service providers such as Absolute data, the Retail Banker International Awards 2018- organized
CRISIL etc. who support only analytics services; and IT/BPO by Retail Banker International, an online publication
service providers who engage themselves both in analytics that provides news on banking and finance from across
as well as BPO services such as Accenture, Cognizant, IBM, the globe.
Genpact, hp, Infosys, TCS, WNS etc.
D. Kotak Mahindra Bank's analytics platform extracts data
from its core banking system and the relationship
Analytics in Indian Banking Scenario: management system, combines them and puts in place
Analytics in Indian Banking is still at its nascent stage and algorithms which are working on certain thresholds. The
so the value creation potential is also very low. The market bank implements various significant events like change
size of Finance and Banking sector in Analytics is growing at in demographics viz. marital status, city, transactional
a faster pace than any other sector as it was USD575 million, pattern viz. significant credit/ debit, premature
USD756 million and USD1030 million and USD 6.32 billion in withdrawal of term deposit, stop in any regular activity
2020 during 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020 respectively and is viz. auto-pay, standing instructions/ECS, drop in
projected to reach USD11.02 billion by 2026. Delhi and transaction value or volume throughputs across a period
Bangalore are showing increasing growth rate with respect vis-à-vis historical trend and payments to beneficiaries
to market size. Let us see trend of analytics in Indian like securities, builders, dealers These details are shared
Banking system through a few cases. with Relationship Managers of the Bank for identifying
business opportunities. The Bank has identified that a
Several Indian banks have already initiated data meeting led through cues from data analytics tools is 3
times more effective than the random meetings
analytics initiatives. Some examples are as
scheduled by a Relationship Manager.
under-
A. HDFC Bank was able to scale to large datasets and build Conclusion:
models using high-performance parallelized RevoScaleR
algorithms. The Bank provided a seamless loan Banks should transform massive volumes of organizational
data into actionable insights and strategies. Business
application experience as well as quick turnaround on
loan dispersals for customer Demographic, geographic, Analytics or Big Data Analytics provides comprehensive
capabilities to help banks to perform customer profitability
and other data are utilized to augment loan
applications and credit analysis. Instead of data analytics, manage risk and improve operational efficiency.
manipulation, preparation, and governance the Bank Sophisticated predictive and prescriptive analytics improves
may focus on models, develop algorithms, streamline banks' profitability, compliance, sustainability and
updates, and create new innovations in customer competitiveness. However, implementing these analytics is
services. a challenging aspect looking at the basic realties such as
functional silos, talent crunch and technological resources
B. Axis Bank automated the assignment of scores based or infrastructure. But there is no other way out for the
on risk and other propensities in their consumer lending banking industry that can create value than the tool
business. The Bank expected that the scorecard driven Analytics.
underwriting would result in better accuracy,
consistency and lower credit costs. Analytics is utilized References
in their marketing campaigns. The Bank is also 1. www.rbi.org.in
concentrating on data from Internet and mobile
2. https://cio. economictimes.indiatimes.com
banking, social media etc. towards improved customer
service by understanding their customers' challenges. 3. https://www.businesstoday.in
The Bank plans to incorporate fraud analytics as well. 4. www. icicibank.com
5. www.thehindubusinessline.com
C. ICICI Bank equipped 2000 managers with design thinking
and data analytics skills. The Bank has been utilizing 6. www.businesstoday.in
data analytics for multiple activities and it was declared 7. www.mordorintelligence.com
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