ROCKVILLE, Maryland, July 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Offers joint solution to help banks elevate customer experience through AI powered interactions
Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), today announced a partnership with Active.AI, a Singapore based FinTech that offers an Enterprise AI platform for banks globally. The Active AI platform, integrated with Finacle, will help financial institutions offer conversational banking services through chat and voice based interfaces across their digital channels. Banks can leverage the joint solution to harness artificial intelligence to automate and enhance customer experience.
Active.AI is one of the companies that was recognized in the recently concluded chapter of Finacle FinTech Connect, an initiative that builds on ongoing alliances and the Infosys Innovation Fund program to identify promising new FinTechs.
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Sanat Rao, Chief Business Officer, Infosys Finacle:
"Elevating customer experience and reducing servicing costs are two of the strategic goals banks across the world are pursuing. The advancement in artificial intelligence technologies offer a significant opportunity to achieve these twin goals. Active.AI conversational banking offering focused on financial services will complement our suite of digital banking offerings and will help our clients make banking simpler for their customers."
Parikshit Paspulati, Chief Technology Officer, Active.AI:
"We are building the next generation of secure and scalable technology for financial services with an AI first approach. Our enterprise AI platform will enable banks to be ready for the conversational era. Partnering with Finacle helps us greatly increase delivery velocity for our mutual clients. Axis Bank is one of the first banks, where we have integrated our AI platform with Finacle ecosystem."
About Active Intelligence
Active.AI is a Venture Funded Singapore headquartered fintech startup with an innovation lab in Bengaluru.
Active. Ai delivers Enterprise AI Platform for Financial Services using artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver Conversational banking services. We help banks redefine their digital strategy for the future, bringing in automation and insightful customer engagement. The company's built-for-banking technology uses advanced Natural Language Processing and machine intelligence to enable customers to have natural dialogues over messaging, voice or IOT devices.
To know more, visit http://www.active.ai
About Infosys Finacle
Infosys Finacle is the industry-leading universal banking solution from EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys. The solution helps financial institutions develop deeper connections with stakeholders, power continuous innovation and accelerate growth in the digital world. Today, Finacle is the choice of banks across 94 countries and serves over 848 million customers - estimated to be nearly 16.5 percent of the world's adult banked population.
Finacle solutions address the core banking, e-banking, mobile banking, CRM, payments, treasury, origination, liquidity management, Islamic banking, wealth management, and analytics needs of financial institutions worldwide. Assessment of the top 1000 world banks reveals that banks powered by Finacle enjoy 50 percent higher returns on assets, 30 percent higher returns on capital, and 8.1 percent points lesser costs to income than others.
To know more, visit http://www.finacle.com
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For further information, please contact:
Asia Pacific
Sarah Gideon
Infosys, India
+91-80-4156-3998
Sarah_Gideon@infosys.com
EMEA
Margherita Di Cerbo
Infosys, Europe
Phone: +44-2075162748
Margherita.dicerbo@infosys.com
Americas
Chiku Somaiya
Infosys, USA
+1-408-375-2722
Chiku.Somaiya@infosys.com
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