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HSBC's Transition to Conversational Banking through Intelligent Automation

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Chatbots Manufacturing System Automation
Challenge	HSBC, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, was facing a challenge with its customer service operations. With over 19,000 customer service agents, the bank was dealing with a high volume of repetitive tasks that put pressure on its agents. The traditional career path in the contact center world was also leading to inevitable attrition, as it was defined as agent → team manager → department manager → operations manager → head of contact centre. This lack of opportunity as the field narrows held back the chance of reaching the highest possible customer satisfaction with every interaction. Furthermore, HSBC was planning to shift towards Conversational Banking, which was expected to grow interactions considerably and require conversational experts to manage the chatbots. Read More
About Customer	HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, serving more than 40 million customers through its four global businesses. The bank has a network that covers 64 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, North America, and Latin America. With a large customer base, HSBC has over 19,000 customer service agents handling a high volume of customer interactions. The bank is transitioning towards Conversational Banking, expecting messaging to account for more than 50% of contact centre interactions by the end of 2023. Read More
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Solution	HSBC introduced LivePerson’s intuitive intelligent automation solution, Conversation Builder, in April 2019. This solution allowed HSBC's best agents to create bots that are fuelled by the agents’ own conversational understanding and expertise. The bots were built by creating automated dialogues that could include back-end integrations and connections to messaging channels like Apple Business Chat or WhatsApp. This move to intelligent automation not only eased the pressure on agents by eliminating repetitive tasks but also created new roles such as Conversation Designer and Chatbot Manager. The bank also plans to roll out Conversation Builder to other countries, increase bot containment, and teach bots to handle fulfillment of questions like, “what’s my balance?” and “can I make a payment?” Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Chatbots

Manufacturing System Automation

Challenge

HSBC, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, was facing a challenge with its customer service operations. With over 19,000 customer service agents, the bank was dealing with a high volume of repetitive tasks that put pressure on its agents. The traditional career path in the contact center world was also leading to inevitable attrition, as it was defined as agent → team manager → department manager → operations manager → head of contact centre. This lack of opportunity as the field narrows held back the chance of reaching the highest possible customer satisfaction with every interaction. Furthermore, HSBC was planning to shift towards Conversational Banking, which was expected to grow interactions considerably and require conversational experts to manage the chatbots.

About Customer

HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, serving more than 40 million customers through its four global businesses. The bank has a network that covers 64 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, North America, and Latin America. With a large customer base, HSBC has over 19,000 customer service agents handling a high volume of customer interactions. The bank is transitioning towards Conversational Banking, expecting messaging to account for more than 50% of contact centre interactions by the end of 2023.

Customer Name

HSBC

Solution

HSBC introduced LivePerson’s intuitive intelligent automation solution, Conversation Builder, in April 2019. This solution allowed HSBC's best agents to create bots that are fuelled by the agents’ own conversational understanding and expertise. The bots were built by creating automated dialogues that could include back-end integrations and connections to messaging channels like Apple Business Chat or WhatsApp. This move to intelligent automation not only eased the pressure on agents by eliminating repetitive tasks but also created new roles such as Conversation Designer and Chatbot Manager. The bank also plans to roll out Conversation Builder to other countries, increase bot containment, and teach bots to handle fulfillment of questions like, “what’s my balance?” and “can I make a payment?”

Impact #1	The introduction of intelligent automation at HSBC has led to significant operational improvements. The bank has been able to blend human empathy with intelligent automation, which has been crucial to its success. The front-line team now has control over its own destiny and can operate with increased agility, faster and smarter than ever before, to get customers the resolutions they’re seeking. The move to Conversational Banking has also created an exciting new career path for some of its agents, forever changing the expectation of the contact centre world. This has not only reduced attrition but also increased the chance of reaching the highest possible customer satisfaction with every interaction.

Impact #1

The introduction of intelligent automation at HSBC has led to significant operational improvements. The bank has been able to blend human empathy with intelligent automation, which has been crucial to its success. The front-line team now has control over its own destiny and can operate with increased agility, faster and smarter than ever before, to get customers the resolutions they’re seeking. The move to Conversational Banking has also created an exciting new career path for some of its agents, forever changing the expectation of the contact centre world. This has not only reduced attrition but also increased the chance of reaching the highest possible customer satisfaction with every interaction.

Benefit #1	HSBC expects messaging to account for more than 50% of contact centre interactions by the end of 2023.
Benefit #2	The bank has introduced new roles such as Conversation Designer and Chatbot Manager, creating new career paths for its agents.
Benefit #3	HSBC plans to roll out Conversation Builder to other countries, indicating a potential increase in efficiency and customer satisfaction globally.

Benefit #1

HSBC expects messaging to account for more than 50% of contact centre interactions by the end of 2023.

Benefit #2

The bank has introduced new roles such as Conversation Designer and Chatbot Manager, creating new career paths for its agents.

Benefit #3

HSBC plans to roll out Conversation Builder to other countries, indicating a potential increase in efficiency and customer satisfaction globally.

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HSBC's Transition to Conversational Banking through Intelligent Automation

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