Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 22, 2023

The forces of change in banking have seldom been stronger. The recent rise in interest rates, is pushing consumers to overcome their inertia, and to open themselves up to new choices. Digitalization… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Banks and Financial institutions are the backbones of any economy. Since digitalization is happening in almost every sector, the banking sector is also getting digital. Today, customers expect the same kind of effortless experience from their bank as they have with other leading retailers.

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Concentrix

APRIL 19, 2021

The post Banking Industry Series: Cloud Contact Center Transformation Using Amazon Connect appeared first on Concentrix. Reimagine customer engagement and care operations for the new digital first experience.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 28, 2019

Yet bank employees did not disappear with the advent of the ATM. The World Bank finds in its 2019 examination of the workforce that while technology is indeed changing how people work, it’s also creating new opportunities. Technology replacing humans. That’s what we all fear. And yet, a net gain in human jobs is also expected.

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Talkdesk

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Almost 17,500 US bank branches closed from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of June 2020. Bank branch closures create additional costs for local business owners, making it harder to manage cash flow, maintain productivity levels and contribute to the wider local economy. Impact on small businesses. Embrace the cloud.

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Hodusoft

MARCH 13, 2024

Optimizing Customer Support in the Financial Sector: How BPO Contact Centers Can Add Value In the present age, financial institutions are grappling with a wide range of challenges. This blog explores the challenges faced by the financial industry, the role of BPO contact centers, and strategies to enhance customer support.

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HGS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ready to modernize your contact center? Tis the season for contact center trends, predictions, and “must-watch” lists. An alternate, or supplemental, way of looking at technology adoption and maturity in the contact center involves Rogers’ stages of diffusion of innovation. Assess trends with care.

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Distribution through financial centers: Banks, credit unions and community lenders will receive the applications, review, process and distribute the new tranche of $267.5 Banks and lenders will need to make the PPP process as clear and straightforward as possible to their agents and clients.

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Advantage Communications

APRIL 26, 2022

The customer experience (CX) in recent years has become the defining differentiator in the banking industry , ensuring financial organizations are able to build customer loyalty, reduce customer service costs, improve employee happiness and drive up revenue.

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pindrop

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For the contact center, the implications should be an encouraging sign for a financially healthy 2021. Here’s what was uncovered: Analyzing the Surge in Bank Activity. Quick and easy online or mobile banking experiences have almost become table stakes to delivering on customer service expectations.

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CX Global Media

JULY 17, 2018

The contact center agent job is getting harder, talent is harder to attract, unemployment is down and the labor market is tight…all of this is causing a disruption in contact center pay. And for many, these are the majority of workers in contact centers. But not in the way you might be thinking.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 24, 2024

Personalization Strategies for Inbound and Outbound Banking Calls: A Technology Perspective Within the quickly changing banking industry, where the customer experience is paramount, the concept of tailored interactions has become increasingly important.

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Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2022

One way to achieve this level of differentiation is through digital self-service experiences, which empower customers to get answers to questions and complete transactions without having to engage a contact center agent. Use cases can include banking customers who […].

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Depending on your age, you may remember a time when banks competed more aggressively against each other for business. There were many more state and local bank branches back then, each offering different checking and savings account products to entice customers. Still have questions? Find out more about Monet WFO.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 24, 2019

More and more companies are choosing contact center locations closer to home with rich talent pools where agents are not only fluent in their customers’ language but can also pick up on cultural nuances that are difficult to teach non-native speakers. Simply put, offshore doesn’t cut it. You know it – and your customers know it too.

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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Bank technology is shifting. Once only powered by human agents, the first automated technology that was introduced in the contact center acted mainly as a way to redirect calls to the right department. Specifically in banking, there are multiple challenges to customer service. That all comes down to conversation design.

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Taylor Reach Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

by Colin Taylor The rapid advancement of conversational AI has had a profound impact on various industries, and one arena that has been significantly affected is the contact center industry. The emergence of Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRs) in the 1980s marked the initial steps toward automation within contact centers.

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Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 18, 2019

I recently had a conversation with Richard Antosik, Vice President, Digital Operations (Client Services) at Laurentian Bank regarding their contact center’s recent digital transformation. MIKE AOKI: What was your past experience regarding contact center digital transformations?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 24, 2017

inContact’s research shows that banking was in the highest tier for customer satisfaction with 54% of respondents ranking it for the most satisfied recent interaction. The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) reported that banking customer satisfaction increased 5.3% The post What are Bank Contact Centers Doing Right?

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. Dustin Hubbard, Chief Technology Officer at WaFd Bank.

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Uniphore

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Faced with record-high contact center traffic, many organizations accelerated their digital transformations—and uncovered a wealth of untapped CX value. The post Banking on Great Conversations appeared first on Uniphore. For the finance industry, the global pandemic was a watershed moment. Download Now.

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Uniphore

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The challenges of the pandemic thrust banks that were struggling to remain relevant and their customers who were still digital holdouts into the same situation: learn how to shift banking activity from in person to online practically overnight. Today digital banking is the norm rather than the exception and there’s no going back.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 24, 2017

inContact’s research shows that banking was in the highest tier for customer satisfaction with 54% of respondents ranking it for the most satisfied recent interaction. The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) reported that banking customer satisfaction increased 5.3% The post What are Bank Contact Centers Doing Right?

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TechSee

APRIL 2, 2019

Today’s contact centers face a daunting challenge. From small helpdesks operated by specialist manufacturers to vast contact centers run by leading telecoms and consumer electronics providers, end users can now receive faster, more effective service and support from both live human agents and virtual assistants.

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Revation Systems

MAY 5, 2020

As stay-at-home orders began to ripple across the nation in March, the banking industry began to shut down branches or significantly limit their hours of business to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. In the meantime, banks are shifting their communications strategies in response to the ‘new normal.’. In fact, J.D.

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Call Center Weekly

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Why is the issue of compliance important for contact centers? Contact centers need to provide accurate information to their customers. That is especially true for industries such as banking and insurance, which are heavily regulated. Contact center Agents need the most accurate and up to date information.

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Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Jim White is Senior Vice President and Director of Card Services at Santander Bank. Jim talks about the agent skill requirements they have in their financial contact center. Their agents are a source of information and education.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

It’s just the nature of the contact center industry. Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? It’s time to put humanity into your contact center.” Managing a contact center is fast paced and furious. Doing things the popular way in the contact centers no longer works.”

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CX Global Media

JULY 12, 2019

The fifth step ( Step 1 , Step 2 , Step 3 , Step 4 ) in the contact center agent journey is about agent retention. Retaining contact center agents has always been a significant focus area in contact centers. A several Expert Sessions are dedicated to the topic of on-boarding contact center agents.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a critical role in customer support, sales, and overall communication between businesses and their clientele. Unfortunately, these centers have also become a target for fraudsters looking to exploit the vulnerabilities inherent in these systems.

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Contact Center Pipeline

OCTOBER 7, 2015

JoAnn Morency is a founding board member for the NECCF (NorthEast Contact Center Forum), and Senior Vice President and Director of Retail Banking at Commerce Bank.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2022

5 Reasons Why Financial Institutions Must Invest In Contact Center Software Financial businesses, like banks and insurance companies, deal with people’s money. Today, finance contact center software is one of the best ways for financial institutions to keep tabs on their customers and earn their trust.

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Interactions

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Online banking surged in 2020, with 76% of US adults logging in via their computer at least once a month to manage their finances. This pattern of self service banking is one that seems set to stay. You need to wow customers when they interact with your contact centers and allow them to speak naturally like a human.

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pindrop

AUGUST 3, 2020

Fraudulent activity in the IVR has become a tool for more sophisticated fraudsters and scammers to gain sensitive data that puts contact centers and financial institutions at risk. Forward-thinking contact centers need strategic defenses in place to prevent fraudsters from exploiting the IVR.

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Ameyo

JULY 19, 2018

We recently had an interesting discussion with a Customer Service Head of one of the leading banks in Africa, about how banking experience can be improved by empowering customer service agents with the right access to the backend applications for resolving customer queries efficiently.

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