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Dig deeper into what’s top-of-mind for financial services leaders. Explore how AI is reshaping marketing and service across banking, investment management, and insurance.

The bank CMO agenda for the AI age

When bank CMOs over-emphasize short-term results, they risk squeezing out creativity, underfunding innovation and eroding the brand equity that can help sustain trust—the very foundation of banking. Instead of focusing on the short-term for immediate financial returns, bank CMOs should look at the bigger picture of the shifting industry landscape to establish marketing’s long-term business value.  

By refocusing investments on tech adoption and flexing new muscles, such as AI fluency, CMOs can help redefine their own role within the C-suite and position marketing as a catalyst for growth. Whether it’s increased customer personalization, more streamlined data for analytics or an improved MarTech stack, embracing AI implementation can drive lasting results that take banks into the future and elevate both workforce and customer experiences.  

Read the full article to learn about the changing role of bank CMOs and how they can create new business value by prioritizing long-term investment and accelerating technology adoption. 

GenAI for investment management

As GenAI reshapes sales and marketing in investment management, many early adopters are enjoying a return on investment (ROI). For an integrated approach that aligns with strategic objectives and organizational readiness, some firms are:

     • Focusing on practical, high-impact use cases that are congruent with business priorities, incremental to enterprise value and feasible to implement

     • Taking a long-term view on ROI while also investing in early experimentation

     • Embedding sales and marketing into the firmwide AI apparatus to help guide and oversee end-to-end strategy, implementation and change management

     • Prioritizing flexibility to adapt in real time to the ever-changing regulatory environment around AI 

Read the full article to learn more about how investment managers can move beyond isolated pilots and build the capabilities, culture and confidence needed for enterprise-wide AI adoption.    

Banking & insurance contact centers

In banking and insurance, customer trust is won (or lost) in the contact center. Our contact center research reveals trends in banking and insurance, as well as the pressure points leaders face today. 

     • 17% of organizations surveyed cite improving customer experience (CX) as their top priority 

     • 74% say that service representatives are overwhelmed by systems and information 

     • 32% say channel expansion has increased service inquiries

As digital engagement models replace traditional branches and local agent offices, success is no longer about how many channels you offer—it’s about how well those channels perform individually and work together. AI can help financial services companies connect to customer data, service history and experiences across channels to address challenges, improve customer satisfaction and support long-term growth. 

Read the report to learn how contact center service leaders in banking and insurance can embrace cross-channel strategies, self-service options, and new workforce skillsets to create easy, trusted experiences for their customers.