Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services 2025
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The most promising AI use case examples (contextualized) across financial services TABLE 1
Industry Function Description Value delivered
Banking Sales and service Customer service agents receive
quick and comprehensive
information on all aspects of
products, policies and processes
from a variety of sources –Greater agent efficiency
–Increased response accuracy
–Quicker response time
Capital markets Client servicing/ investment
management Firms use AI models to create
investment portfolios, offer
financial assistance and provide
clients with real-time insights and
trading recommendations –Enhanced client satisfaction
and retention
–Competitive advantage
Payments Fraud management and detection Pre-emptive fraud detection
includes technologies that
can proactively seek and
identify suspicious behaviour
or anomalous events before
fraudulent transactions2 –Improved fraud protection for
customers
–Enhanced customer experience
by minimizing false positives
Insurance Claims The automation of claims and
customer document processing3 –Improved workflows
–Greater agent efficiency
–Streamlined document collection
and validation
Across financial
servicesRisk management and underwriting Prediction of fraudulent
transactions, more effective
underwriting processing and
risk scoring –Reduced internal and
external risk
–Better protection of data
–Improved underwriting
processing times
–Greater accessibility to
established credit scoring
and evaluation
Technology development Streamlining the software
development life cycle, from
writing code to automation
testing4 as well as understanding
and decommissioning of legacy
code environments –Improved workflow and accuracy
–Increased efficiency
–Shorter development cycles
–Reduction in technology debt
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