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DBS retrains call centre staff for digital future

Singapore's DBS has retrained more than 500 call centre employees for the digital age, creating new roles in areas such as social media, voice biometrics and live chat.

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Regions Bank enlists IBM Watson for call centre work

Regions Bank is tapping IBM's Watson AI technology in its call centres to help improve customer service and free up staffers to deal with more complex issues.

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Nationwide deploys SAS analytics to improve customer interactions

UK building society Nationwide has enlisted SAS to help it tap into the power of AI for more efficient and effective customer interactions.

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Pindrop raises $90m to bring voice security tech to IoT devices

Pindrop, a voice security and authentication provider for call centres, has raised $90 million in a Series D funding round joined by Goldman Sachs and Citi Ventures.

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Lloyds Banking Group rolls out Voice ID

Lloyds Banking Group is introducing voice verification technology from Nuance to identify customers dialling into its call centres.

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ING rolls out contact centre platform across 12 countries

ING is rolling out a unified contact centre platform fit for the omni-channel era across 12 countries.

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Czech bank introduces voice biometrics for call centre customer authentication

The Czech Republic's largest bank, Česká spořitelna, has rolled out voice biometrics technology from Nuance Communications, enabling customers to identify themselves to call centre staff simply by speaking.

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BBVA enlists AI agent Amelia for customer support; explores token training on ethereum network

BBVA has become the latest bank to employ Amelia, calling in the virtual assistant's creator IPsoft to help develop AI-powered digital customer support services.

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JPMorgan to roll out Voice ID; begins branch expansion

JPMorgan Chase is to begin using individuals’ unique voiceprints to identify customers who are calling to inquire about their credit card accounts.

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As customer service goes digital, Capital One axes 400 call centre jobs

The shift to digital support tools at Capital One is set to cost the jobs of nearly 400 Chicago call centre staffers.

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Sumitomo Mitsui rolls out messaging app bot

The Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has developed an AI chatbot that will answer customer questions over Line, the popular Japanese messaging app.

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UK facility takeover fraud jumps

Facility takeover fraud soared by 45% in the UK last year, as crooks hoovered up the personal data of victims and used it to gain control of bank and other accounts, says not-for-profit data sharing and prevention agency Cifas.

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Credit union consortium to demo digital identities on distributed ledger network

A US consortium exploring potential use cases for distributed ledger technology in the credit union industry is set to conduct its first live demonstration of a digital identity service next week.

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Emirates NBD tests virtual assistant EVA

Emirates NBD is to deploy an intelligent voice-based chatbot to answer calls to its customer services centre.

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In digital age, customers still want human touch

As established banks rush to close branches in favour of digital channels and a host of new mobile-only challengers enter the field, new research suggests that customers still want the human touch.

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Eckoh brings Apple Pay to voice calls

Eckoh and WorldPay have carried out what they claim is the world's first Apple Pay payment via a phone voice call.

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The bank of the future will be invisible - KPMG

By 2030, technology will have made banks and banking invisible to customers, hidden by Siri-like personal assistants that cull data from our connected lives to fulfil daily personal and financial obligations, claims KPMG.

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Lloyds to use Pindrop tech to identify fraudulent calls

Lloyds Banking Group is to be the first organisation in Europe to use 'Phoneprinting' tech from Pindrop to identify fraudulent callers to its contact centres across the Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands.

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Barclays rolls out voice biometrics for phone banking

Barclays is ditching passwords in favour of voice biometrics technology at its call centres, meaning that customers will be authenticated when they start talking.

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DBS to roll out voice authentication; OCBC to take biometrics nationwide

Singapore's DBS is to introduce voice biometrics to authenticate customers ringing in to its call centres by the end of the year.