Every financial institution today has a website, call center, processing center and array of transactional legacy systems, but few, if any, are able to assemble, mine and leverage the vast amount of consumer information they maintain in their internal disparate databases within their organization. Having the ability to connect these customer data points means a financial institution can mitigate credit risk and make relevant offers about their products to their new and existing customers at the moment they interact with that organization, regardless of the media.

All these data points are engines of information for a financial institution, such as a bank, with each broadcasting vital information about their consumers' needs, desires and intervals of consumption, which if analyzed and modeled can provide a financial institution unprecedented value from their existing consumer information and behavior. The solution to real time marketing for a financial institution lies in the networking of multiple machine learning algorithms in a seamless global system for monitoring and reacting to consumer behaviors and preferences as they interact with a bank on a daily basis.

InferX provides real time predictive analytics to help make the right offer to the right customer as they interact with that financial firm. Marketing in real time is the process of analyzing an assortment of behavioral, demographic, lifestyle, transactional, Internet and geographic information for the personalization of offers to consumers in real time. InferX solutions give financial institutions the ability to analyze structured and unstructured content from all types of data sources, from multiple departments, from different locations and different formats for an assortment of deliverables such as propensity to purchase scores, fraud detection and the prediction of consumer behavior. Financial institutions leverage their everyday communications into actionable knowledge discovery, real-time business intelligence and customer personalization with InferX solutions.

Leaders at the financial services firms we work with have many challenges that require assistance from companies that understand their business and know the types of business questions that they need answered. They also need to have the technology to ensure that the mountains of data they have can be turned into information, which can then be turned into knowledge to help them make better business decisions. Some of the challenges they face are:

  • Extremely fierce global competition has forced financial services firms to market more effectively to customers, develop new products that benefit customers and identify profitable markets to enter.
  • Dealing with the commoditization of investment products while at the same time demonstrating specialization and unique expertise amidst the massive disintermediation of services.
  • Properly integrating technology as a result of mergers and acquisitions in the technology space as well as M & A in the financial services space. They are also heavily tasked with implementing technology solutions that will help them grow their business and need to ensure that they are utilizing their technology investment to the fullest degree.