Master data management plays a critical role in ensuring data transparency. Master data management therefore enables you to leverage the customer and product master data – that you already have – to address and drive revenue from these current trends in the financial services industry.
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Banks are morphing into becoming technology companies. To support this paradigm, financial services providers need to implement scalable mechanisms by which they can collaborate on the development of new products and services with new types of business partners.
As AI moves from the testing phase to finding full employment, it needs to be trained with synthetic data that reflects real-world use cases and allows it to explore the corners of exceptions. Robotic process automation (RPA) will benefit from this training as it moves towards becoming more intelligent (IRPA).
Being a highly data-intensive business, financial services companies rely on the ability to confidently make decisions based on data. Implementing reliable, data-driven decision-making processes requires that you develop awareness of the impact of data management. This is often referred to as a data culture.
Offering a seamless customer experience is still a key component of any customer loyalty initiative. To treat a customer as unique, you need to make product portfolios work together to form part of a personalised solution, rather than an abstract set of products.
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As customer expectations continue to evolve, the ability of financial services providers to meet them will largely depend on access to ever more insightful and personal information. You need to develop operational and analytical systems in order to help turn your data points into a digital twin of the customer that provides more actionable insight.
Using personal interaction channels in conjunction with automated services is not just reserved for direct banking applications, but now extends to the point of need.
Good data has commercial value. The discipline of infonomics provides support to the mechanism of linking information to monetary value. Financial services companies have the opportunity to find new revenue streams from data assets, such as customer data.
Compliance measures are data intensive. Regulatory technology, regtech, is a technology that supports the implementation of regulatory processes. The use of regtech is increasing.
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Like many businesses, financial services organizations are evolving into a provider of digital services via platforms, effectively putting the business “in a box”. If you want to pursue this ambition, your data not only needs to be of high quality. It also needs to be served up according to contextual business information views, rather than technical views.
The common denominator of the top trends in financial services is that they rely on data transparency. Master data management enables data transparency by providing a single, trusted view of business-critical information, such as customer and product master data.
Master data management defines and implements governance policies to certify that certain critical parameters of your customer and product data, including its origin, accuracy, coherence, accessibility, security, auditability and ethics, are under business supervision and best serving business purpose.
Adding a little bit more detail, this means that master data management can help by: