Editorial
Hailing from the Mediterranean region, I love to chat. But I have never been sold on chatbots until now. However, I do like the way chatbots start with the basics and work their way up. Thanks to AI and machine learning, they are now achieving a decent performance. Although an attempt at sustaining a proper conversation with a bot might still leave you frustrated, when you are looking for answers or guidance, they do a much better job than phone switchboards.
From customer experience to process optimization or security and compliance, AI is changing the face of banking as we know it. Indeed 86% of banking executives consider that AI will be critically important to their business in the next two years.
In this issue of This Week in Consulting, we explore how AI will impact financial services with a specific focus on banking. What the key trends are, which areas will be impacted the most and what regulators have in store.
Enjoy the read. Feel free to comment. Would love to hear your views.
Laurent THOMAS
Chairman Consulting Quest
This week’s must read
In This Week’s Must Read we present this insight piece dealing with AI-enabled services that are transforming the banking sector but not without a cost. Read here.
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Laurent is the Chairman and Co-founder of Consulting Quest. Focused on greater value creation, and being thoroughly familiar with Consulting, Laurent has sourced and sold millions of dollars worth of Consulting over the course of his career. Prior to joining Consulting Quest, Laurent was Executive Vice President Oil and Gas at Solvay and Senior Partner Transformation at Oliver Wyman.
