The Banking sector has experienced a rapid transformation in recent times. Today banks have to look much beyond just providing a multi-channel service platform for its customers. There are other pressing issues that banks need to address in order to chalk-out a roadmap for the future.

IT is central to banking. This is one of the major reasons why new private and multi-national banks have been able to survive, thrive, and adapt in an increasingly competitive space. These banks were able to leverage on low-cost channels such as ATMs and Net banking to the optimum levels contributing to reduced operating costs. Banks have realized that shifting customer access to lower cost channels can help bring down operating costs.

Banks are looking at newer ways to make a customer's banking experience more convenient, efficient, and effective. They are using new technology tools and techniques to identify customer needs and are offering tailor-made products to match them. Centralized operations and process automation using core banking applications and IP-based networks improve efficiency and productivity levels tremendously. Core banking applications help a bank to shift from 'branch banking' to 'bank banking.' This basically means that a customer will be treated as a bank's customer than just the customer of a particular branch which was the case earlier. Also, IP-based networks lets a bank offer multiple services over the same network, resulting in costs savings.

CRM solutions, if implemented and integrated correctly, can help significantly in improving customer satisfaction levels. Data warehousing can help in providing better transaction experiences for customers over different transaction channels. This is made possible because data warehousing helps bring all the transactions coming from different channels under a common roof. Data mining helps banks analyze and measure customer transaction patterns and behavior. This can help a lot in improving service levels and finding new business opportunities.

The challenge for retail financial institutions today is to provide multiple and innovative services to the consumer through a single window and through integrated delivery channels. In the prevailing complex and dynamic environment, the only sustainable competitive advantage is institutional agility, flexibility and to be able to:

• rapidly adapt to changing market requirements
• capitalize on every perceived opportunity in the market
• swiftly respond to new challenges in the market
• branch banking system
• online, real-time processing
• ATM/teller applications
• loan processing systems
• interfaces to other applications such as treasury
• seamless integration with advanced delivery systems including teller and branch automated teller machine (ATM), interactive voice response (IVR) – phone banking, corporate and Internet banking
• retail/housing/credit card management systems
• funds transfer
• foreign exchange and money market solutions
• customer transaction data warehousing/mining

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