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Banks not investing enough on data infrastructue : Accenture

New Delhi, Apr 22 (UNI) A new report from technology major Accenture has found that many banks have not invested in the capabilities to verify the validity and accuracy of their data.

According to the report, Banking Technology Vision 2018, banks have always held a large volume of confidential data and are increasingly adding data from external, unstructured sources. However, while more than nine in 10 (94 per cent) of the bankers surveyed said they are confident in the integrity of the sources of their data, the report found that half of the bankers aren’t doing enough to validate and ensure data quality: 11 per cent trust their data is reliable, but don’t validate it; 16 per cent try to validate their data, but aren’t sure of the quality; and 24 per cent validate the data, but recognize they should do a lot more to ensure the quality.

In addition, while five in six bankers (84 per cent) said they increasingly use data to drive critical and automated decision-making, more than three-quarters (78 per cent) of those surveyed believe that these automated systems create new risks, such as fake data, external data manipulation and inherent bias.

“Inaccurate, unverified data will make banks vulnerable to false business insights that drive bad decisions,” said Alan McIntyre, senior managing director and head of Accenture’s banking practice.

The Accenture Banking Technology Vision 2018 report draws on the analysis of an advisory board of more than two dozen individuals, interviews with technology luminaries and industry experts, and results of a survey of nearly 800 bankers. This year’s report, with the theme “Building the Future-Ready Bank,” showcases five IT trends — including data veracity — that could generate the next wave of industry disruption for banks and how technological change will rewrite the rules of banking over the next decade.

Artificial intelligence (AI) — a big theme in last year’s report — continues to be a top trend for 2018. Nearly four in give bankers (79 per cent) surveyed for this year’s report believe that AI will work alongside humans as collaborators and trusted advisors within the next two years.
However, bankers are concerned about how decisions will be made by AI as the technology advances and if those decisions will adhere to regulatory and ethical standards. The report’s “Citizen AI” trend focuses on the need for humans to ensure that machines are well-trained, make ethical decisions, and can evolve in ways that are consistent with the bank’s brand.

Ninety per cent of bankers believe it’s important for employees and customers to understand the general principles used in AI-based decisioning. Nearly one-quarter (24 per cent) of bankers said their bank plans to provide transparency for all areas where AI is used in the bank within two years, and an additional 29 per cent said their bank plans to be fully transparent for all AI decisions that are customer-facing.
Transparency will be key, as more than two-thirds (71 per cent) of surveyed bankers said the biggest benefit they expect from AI is that it will enable banks to build trust and confidence with their customers.

The “Frictionless Business” trend discusses how businesses today depend on technology-based partnerships for growth, but many banks can’t easily partner with third parties because of their own complex, often inflexible operating and technology platforms. The report identifies two technologies that can help banks overcome these challenges: microservices and blockchain.

Blockchain, in particular, is important to the banking industry. In fact, of all the executives surveyed for the broader Accenture Tech Vision 2018 report, those in the banking industry were more likely than those in any other industry to cite blockchain and smart contracts as being critical to their organization over the next three years (71 per cent of bankers vs. 60 per cent of executives in other industries, on average).
In addition, the banking executives expect that operational blockchain systems will be live in their banks in 2.6 years, on average, and that the technology might one day provide cost-effective replacements for legacy core banking systems.

The banking industry report is based on responses from nearly 800 respondents at banks in 25 countries across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and South America.
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