Addressing the Challenge of Managing Banking Data with Technology

Addressing the Challenge of Managing Banking Data with Technology

Capital Markets CIO Outlook | Thursday, August 01, 2019

 

By leveraging a data-driven approach to grow business and enhance the services offered to the customer, big data can become a critical game-changer for firms in the financial sector.     

FREMONT, CA: One of the critical values of the banking industry is its customer-focused mindset. In this new era of banking, the advances in technology and communication, coupled with explosively grown data, are giving rise to a more empowered and informed customer. With this change in consumer dynamics, the industry is compelled to tailor an improved customer engagement strategy with the help of a wide variety of customer data available.

With the increasing demand for an enhanced customer engagement solution banking data is growing in leap and bounds and handling that volume is becoming all the more challenging. The legacy systems are overwhelmed with both structured and unstructured data at a considerable pace, and managing it becomes a complication for banks and financial institutions. But they are responsible for sorting this data so that it can be used in product innovation, business expansion, and many more. One thing they can do is analyzing the vast data volume with the help of smart tools that can make it productive.

Using a unified platform to store, manage, and analyze all banking data with speed and accuracy can also tackle the challenges associated with maintaining the data. This will allow banks to enhance their time to market strategies and support customized banking services and products development. This can give financial institutions a complete view of customers with their sentiments and market trends. The stringent security and compliance standards associated with the banking data can be tackled with the help of cloud technology. It can build a security-rich environment for data.

There are data analytics platforms that can store a high volume of data simultaneously analyze it to make it more reliable. With more banking data, the need for technologies in data science, including predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud technology will also continue to increase. With new data analytics and business intelligence solutions, banks can meet unforeseen data challenges and head towards success.

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