FNB Evaluates 14 Times More Interactions using Verint Quality Bot

Opportunity

First National Bank (FNB) provides personal, private, commercial, and corporate banking services to millions of customers across Africa. FNB is the oldest bank in South Africa and trades as a division of FirstRand Bank Limited.

The bank has been on a journey with Verint Speech Analytics and Verint Quality Management, providing actionable insights that improve the customer experience (CX). Some 38 business units comprising 6,400 users have already been onboarded to Verint, with more than 24 million calls analyzed last year.

However, quality management remained a manual process. Supervisors and quality teams spent hours manually listening to calls and grading them against scoring criteria – an expensive and time-consuming process.

Part of their role was to assess sales calls among the 1,400 advisors in the call center. South African financial compliance stipulates that certain phrases need to be referenced during the outbound client engagement, such as the advisor confirming they are calling from FNB and indicating that the calls are being recorded.

Until recently, FNB had many quality advisors (QAs) evaluating calls across the bank, performing approximately 45,000 manual evaluations per month. Yet, FNB had a limited monitoring capability as not all interactions were evaluated.

Benefits

Verint Quality Bot, powered by advanced AI, helps FNB automate their quality program and deliver real business outcomes now. By reviewing up to 100% of relevant interactions, the bank is improving service quality, CX, compliance, and employee performance.

Key benefits include:

• Significant increase in the number of interactions evaluated. In Sales, there are 14 times more automated evaluations per advisor compared to manual evaluations. In Collections (where calls are typically shorter than Sales calls), there are eight times more automated evaluations per advisor than manual evaluations.
• In just 14 months, FNB has extended the Quality Bot deployment, increased the automated evaluations from 21,589 to 71,419 (a 230% increase), and increased the number of advisors automatically evaluated from 291 to 1,387 (a 376% increase).
• Improved employee performance. In the past three months, the percentage of advisors (across Sales, Outbound Service, Relationship Banking, and Collections) who scored 90%+ on the quality scorecard increased by 15%.
• In Outbound Service, the quality score increased by 6% in nine months.
• In Collections, the quality score increased by 4% in four months.
• Automation is driving standardization and consistency across business units. This uniform approach to quality management has helped draw attention to the need for aligned scripts between the contact centers.
• Ten percent of the automated quality management scope consisting of various regulatory questions has been implemented, with a strong roadmap in place for implementing the remaining questions.
• Verint Quality Bot helps ensure adherence to financial regulations, reducing the risk of non-compliance, and damage to the brand.
• Verint Quality Bot helps ensure adherence to financial regulations, reducing the risk of non-compliance and damage to the brand.