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Process Automation: The Key to Business Continuity for Financial Service Providers 

Blog: Bizagi Blog

The economy has entered a recession. But unlike the last major economic downturn, the cause did not originate with the financial services industry itself due to poor regulation and debt defaults. The pandemic caused by Coronavirus has had a global impact, changing the way most organizations do business, sending shockwaves through the economy.

As a result, all banks and financial service providers are faced with the challenge of how to continue their business activities. Only financial institutions that react quickly to changing market conditions and digitize business-relevant core processes can guarantee business continuity. Here’s how you can use process automation to shore up your operational resilience and sail through the storm.

Agility and operational resilience

At the moment, many are looking to the international
standard ISO 22301
for business continuity management to help organizations
identify and manage threats and take a proactive approach to minimizing the
impacts of incidents.

In the US, the Financial
Industry Regulation Authority (FINRA)
requires firms to create and maintain
written business continuity plans relating to an emergency or significant
business disruption.

These have been tested in the face of the Coronavirus
pandemic. Only 12% of organizations are highly prepared for the impact of
Coronavirus, according to Gartner’s
recent Business Continuity Survey
. The preparedness depends on their
ability to adapt to the new normal and respond to the disruption caused by the
pandemic.

A platform that allows you to make agile changes will be hugely beneficial in this new era of uncertainty. The ability to remodel and automate processes provides the resilience to adapt to disruptive events. You can model business processes for new (or even potential) scenarios and roll out new ways of working in a responsive manner. This could be a new process to add a layer of security when employees need to access systems remotely while working from home.

Re-thinking customer service

As countries around the world enforce lockdowns and people
limit their time out in public, service providers across industries have had to
rethink how they interact with their customers. While lots of banks have already
embarked on digital transformation projects to moving their services online,
many branches still provide core services for customers who prefer to carry out
transactions and seek advice in-person.

Research from Samsung revealed that 77%
of customers still seek out face-to-face interactions
when dealing with
complex financial matters, while Accenture revealed 80% of customers still chose
in-branch as their preferred channel in 2017 when it came to lending, down just
7% from 2010.  

Banks and financial service providers need to respond and switch
their in-branch customer service and facilities to online and mobile to provide
an omnichannel experience. By taking a centralized approach to your business
with a process automation platform that acts as an orchestrator, you can gain a
holistic view of your operations and contextualize customer information. This
allows you to react to each customer’s unique situation and work out how to
serve them best.

Handling an increase in demand and pressure

In addition to adapting current processes, some
organizations will also be seeing a strain on their resources as their
processes support a substantially higher volume. Many banks and lenders are
seeing this as customers request mortgage holidays and loan deferrals while
they navigate through this difficult time.

Bizagi customer VKB Bank were faced with an increased number
of credit instalment deferrals, jumping from around 150 requests a year to more
than 100 per day. The spike in processes was draining the bank’s resources, as
each request took 40 to 60 minutes to complete.

In just three weeks, they were able to design and implement
a new process using Bizagi, which automated key steps in the process, supported
by UiPath bots. This increased efficiency by 90%, so processing time was
reduced down to just 4 to 6 minutes. This meant they could process more credit
instalment deferrals without having to hire more staff, saving them time and
money.

If you’d like more advice on how your organization can continue with effective business operations following COVID-19, download our 3-Step Guide to Business Continuity. You’ll find out how to design new processes for collaboration, reassess your risk management, and automate processes for greater efficiency.

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