by Tickmill
The financial services industry has gone through enormous transformation during the past few years, not only in terms of regulation but also in terms of technological advancement. There are lots of innovations that have redefined not only the industry, but also the world of work in this crucial sector. Mobility and connectivity are opening up new avenues for the business of financial institutions.
New possibilities
More than any other industry, the financial services sector has moved further towards digital in a bid to tackle increasing customer expectations, changing regulations and heightened operational costs. Regulators have increased their demands from the industry, and have started to adopt sophisticated tools to monitor individual institutions’ activities and the overall action in the industry. Moreover, banking institutions have long been using artificial intelligence to detect payments fraud; now they are tapping into AI’s ability to identify abnormal behaviour to detect practices of market abuse.
Customer intelligence
Eliciting patterns of consumer behaviour was once based on traditional methods such as surveys and focus groups. Nowadays, with the advancement of technology, businesses harness the power of data derived from multiple channels to unlock key information that will help them understand what clients really want by deploying big data analytics. Clients and prospects generate huge and diverse data across a variety of channels, and financial institutions will sift through available data to discover trends, patterns and other insights that matter most to them. Customer intelligence is seen as a key indicator of profitability and this necessitates firms to have a robust technological infrastructure in place to get more intelligent about their customers’ needs.
Increased automation
Experts foresee that organisations will increasingly rely on the full spectrum of automation to carry out various laborious processes and improve the overall efficiency of the business, mitigate risks, and enhance innovation and, ultimately, growth.
Robotic process automation (RPA) is well on its way to invading the modern workplace, and organisations need to devise a proper workforce plan that takes into consideration all the transformations in the way work is done, as well as effective strategies that would minimise negative disruption. Above all, organisations need to orientate their workforces to the new state of affairs by clearly defining roles and responsibilities, and setting measurable goals for the new ecosystem to ensure its success.
“At Tickmill we have a strategic plan in place to deal with all these changing forces, and we are building the right infrastructure to leverage emerging technologies in a bid to streamline business processes and refine clients’ experience,” highlights Duncan Anderson, CEO of Tickmill UK Ltd, an FCA UK-licensed Forex and CFD provider. “Forex traders are more sophisticated than ever today, because they also use AI and automation to make trading decisions and execute trades, therefore we strive to provide products and services that create value and maximise satisfaction for also this new growing breed of traders. At the same time, we are equipping our workforce with the right skillset to be able to smoothly adjust in the new reality.”
