Empowering relationship managers

Fjord x DBS, 2021
Project Overview
Client Connect, is a next-generation unified workbench powered by data and artificial intelligence/machine learning, enabling employees to instantly access the most relevant up-to-date data and insights for any client so that they can handle service requests promptly and effectively, and engage customers in meaningful and relevant wealth conversations.
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Context
It’s a familiar story for many financial institutions: front liners need to trawl through multiple tools to get a holistic view of a customer, and are ill-equipped with data-driven insights and knowledge to help them deliver the most effective service and advice, resulting in missed opportunities. Customers might pick up the phone to find that their relationship manager lacks updated information about them, or, that they have to repeat their story to a different person each time, or that the conversation revolves around irrelevant product pushes rather than clear and relevant financial advice.

Design

1. Codifying the client's interactions
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DBS faced challenges in keeping track of conversations and interactions between relationship managers and clients, which resulted in lost context and accountability issues. To address this, an unstructured text field was introduced with topical tags to encourage documentation of engagements. This approach enables capturing essential user information without overburdening the relationship managers, while training the data model with codified conversation tags.
2. Feedback loop for the AI model
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An AI model was created to provide personalized insights and suggestions for each client, helping the relationship managers to contextualize their conversations and giving them angles to approach their client, rather than just another product/sales lead. To ensure continuous improvement of the data model, a feedback loop was created for relationship managers to rate these suggestions, providing them with tags to give more context on why the suggestion was good or bad.
3. Service requests management
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To better serve customers, relationship managers must attend to service requests promptly. A service request can refer to a customer's request for assistance or support in relation to their banking needs. In order to keep track of these service requests, a view was created to provide an overview of open requests assigned to the relationship manager. The view displays each request's urgency and corresponding service level agreement, enabling relationship managers to prioritize their tasks effectively.

Impact

Since its launch in Singapore, Client Connect has led to a significant uptick in client engagement and a massive reduction in overdue service requests, besides its time-saving, productivity-enhancing features. With additional plans to roll out the platform to all its other markets (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and China).

Featured in The Business Times 'Empowering relationship managers with intelligent banking in a digital era'

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