Thursday, January 26, 2023

AI in Banking and Insurance

 AI in Banking and Insurance

 

 Introduction

The upcoming technology whether is is not upcoming it is quiet an old technology but from a business relevance perspective it is a new form of enthusiasm for AI. What do you mean by AI ?.

There are  three primary sensing technologies computer vision which talks about seeing what is called as the input coming from images or videos like we see with a naked eye then nlp or text mining is about input text data and speech processing is about speech in  but it is not that only these kind of inputs are dealt with in core machine learning of  but it is also about any kind of data beyond these it can be structured excel data or tabular data  so once we learn about the machine learning it actually talks about creating some king of pattern from the raw data it takes raw data to be structured data  or unstructured can be three types vision , nlp, a speech process so basically if look at  machine learning it is a brain of AI which is basically talking about pattern extraction from raw data it could be structured tabular kind of data or unstructured data is like images or video revision nlp or text data speech data processing . So once we have this basic notion of  AI lets look at what is machine learning ?. Machine learning is basically considered as a way by which you take in data and you kind of create a what we call  as effectively some kind of a  pattern  extract from the raw data . Pattern is  also called as model and the beauty of this  machine learning is that  it is purely a function of the data that is given . The data  which give to the machine the pattern is extracted from the same data . For example lets say you have created  lots of input x-ray data for cancer detection  you label  each of the cancer x- ray has having cancer  or no cancer  then your machine learning programme should be able to extract  the pattern from there  so that when a new x-ray is given it should  be able to say  whether the x-ray has cancer  or no cancer so it is also important  for us to understand that  whenever we talk about extracting model or extracting pattern  from raw data  it is quiet different from conventional  programming . Programmic logic is controlled  with the program but in machine  learning  we  have no control over the  logic of the  model or the patterns in it . It is purely data in program out or data in model so logic is hidden inside the data which is extracted in form of the model or pattern so the only way the model can be changed  by changing the data  so just before we want to go deeper into  applications of AI in  specifically  the vertical we talk about  banking and financial services . Machine learning itself is not like one type fits all there are different kinds of machine learning in the simplest form  where we talk about machine learning  we have both input and output  and what we find in the pattern or model is that relation between  input and output data . That again can be two types  the output is something  like you know cancer  where you have only two output values cancer and no cancer  so it is fixed number of output value  it is called classification  whereas if your output is a continous value like you are predicting  astock value  the it is called as regression  so supervised machine learning  is the most common  kind of machine learning  we work with  which is basically  either classification or regression  so machine learning is not like one size fits all  so in some cases you may have output variable  and input variable  and if you have output variable and you try to find relation between variable you will try to find out  if it is a regression  is a continous output variable or  output is a fixed set of values  which called as classification like the cancer case one other case there could be scenario  where you only have  data and you are extracting  some pattern  that is called unsupervised machine learning . There are several examples of unsupervised machine learning where you could just  extract patterns from data like  it could be example like you form groups of similar data called clusters or you could form paires of things like if you have bought  one thing you are recommending  another think like all of you when  you shp in Amazone . So there are different examples of  extraction  of different kind of patterns and just raw data  no output only input  or you are doing a recommendation system when you are doing then browse  your recommended something  so that is a classic example of unsupervised machine broadly mainly we have these two  kind of machine leaning supervised which is classification or regression and also provides very just doing pattern extraction like clustering recommendation systems or no extraction of rules .
 

AI broadly refers to the notion of human intelligence being mimicked by machines that is why it is called Artificial Intelligence but if you look at the over all picture of what you mean by the concept of mimiking human intelligence there are broadly three aspects to this :

The first one is called Senses so like human beings have senses like we see with our eyes , we listened with our ears like that the AI technologies have sensing has a primary component whereby they take in the data and the data could be coming from something which you are seeing  or something that you are speaking , something which you are writing a text or it could be data coming from any other data base or any source . So the sensing part is basically where you take in the data , then the important part is about making sense of the data which you got from the sensor meaning extracting patterns from the data which you have sensed . Pattern is how you can extract a specific kind of what we call as pattern which is a very very  crucial for understanding the relationship between different parts of the data or understanding how the pattern can be understood so that it can be repeated when a new kind of data which comes . So idea of core or brain of AI is primarily this part which is called as machine learning which is basically about extracting patterns from raw data then optionally several cases it is not just about analyzing the sensed data or the data which is being sent and analysed for patterns but we also respond with an action for example lets take a diverse car in that case we take a sensor which is the computer vision camera which comes in analyses the patterns in the what we saw in the camera then based on that we can take an action as to how we should break which direction should we move or you can also do simply taking the data in by sensor and then extract patterns from it then a human can take action so it is not necessary that the autonomic response or automous response by machine is mandatory  so main code is about taking in the data and analyzing the data patterns so that is what we call as underlying technologies .

The way the company function for a period of time has been completely tranformed . Traditionally a manager taking the decisions most often was based on their experience . All of them transformed  has completelely switched to a data driven decision making . We know that lots of data is processed and finding insights  is called as big data analytics . The branch of study is data science . Now a days big data not used by company is very less also this is no longer a trend but a necessity . After 2008 recession financial institutions such as banks so many challenges they have gone through. In that point of time bank started using applications they  started taking the advantage of these applications and try to find very different revenue streams to bring back their profit margin .  

The Big data , Machine learning and AI  how it transform the banking process through 6 use cases ?

 

 
1.     Customer Analytics

When you compare other industries , bank has more data generated . There the big data process what are all the data is there we can once understand. 

First one is KYC data Know Your Customer data : When we go to bank every time updated information we fill there we can see that is Know your customer data. 

The second one is Banking visits : when we always visit bank that data points completely locked . 

The third one is Credit Card History : What all we have transaction through credit card  we can understand . 

The fourth one is Web History : that means what all we are doing in web that all will be locked . 

The next impotant is Call Log : that means when we call all of them is logging . You know that when you call the bank this call will be recorded the message we can see that is unstructured data is is very important data . 

Then next more important is Social Media Information : collecting these many data after that sending through the engine we will get that much , lots of analysis we can make such as sentiment analysis , credit analysis so many of these kind of analysis .

 Once customer complete data behaviour is being tracked . Tracked meaning understanding the behaviour pattern . So using these insights two examples .

One example will be one dashboard will come one particular customer how much time he is interacting with them or what are the modes of interacting with them the bank . So that dashboard shows this much percentage through mobile , this much through web ,this much through social media or through calls so these  kind of all modes we can get in detail .

The second example is preventing customer churn that means their the track record when will this customer will leave the bank and go is already understood and predicted accordingly we can do things required and retain customer . So these kind of very important examples the big data application given to bank

 

2.    Fraud Detection and Prevention :

 So you all have a basic idea about how theft happens in a bank so it is divided into 3 types. First one is Identity theft , second one is credit card fraud , third one even if it is not related to bank it is related to financial institution  Insurance Fraud . So lets see how we can through Big data application prevention.

 We can see credit card fraud for example a customer suddenly got a information , where customer is  spending 2 lakhs with his card in US in Jewellery and a message came , so these many years through customer pattern he has not gone outside India also his expense , payment , spending category after seeing that his account 50000 not more than that he has paid also not having a habit of buying jewellery so through this transaction suddenly the bank one information will be given to the customer is it seems like a fraudulent activity ? . Thus the customer can automatically block it and say it is not my transaction so they will be saved . So that we has a customer individual a bank no human interaction so these can be monitored by big data application . 

The second one is identity theft you all know that todays latest is all about machine learning and artificial intelligence so through are face detection and finger print detection most of these we can lower these issues . So similar to that is the insurance fraud you all know that in US almost all 80 percent automobile insurance fraud is happening so that is an incident happens money will be taken  so that all this tracking can be kept and  fraud can be prevented .

 

3.     Personalized Marketing :

 This where big data applications very important feature that means this allows the analyzed reports of banks to give the right product to the right person at the right time based on their needs so through an example we can understand :

There was a customer John in leading bank has a mortgage loan and has a credit card and also has a normal account . So John planned to renovate his house  for example buying furniture through credit card is used thus the bank can analyse and understand the pattern . So the bank keeps an offer when that time the credit limit is got  over the bank understand  that it is a risk  after that the message is given that you can higher your credit limit  at this time it is very important  . So like this every one bank has their data social media throught that understand what all they want to buy they will keep offers within this percentage this many months you can close  given , definetly that customer will buy so like that personalized  one by one customer  understanding their behaviour one one products can be sold .So added to that different one is the recommendation engine that is when we buy one thing through Amazone ''you  have bought this "so you recomment to buy other things so the recommendation engine is also the big data applications for this customer is given .

 

4.   Risk Management :

 We all know that bank risk department is in all banks . So that means the investment that they do where bank is taking all the measures . So that means this predictive machines is very helpful .  So that means when the  risk comes if the market condition is bad many people has the difficulty to pay and the second one is the competition where if it is a very competitive market there is risk . Third one is customer trust worthiness that means how much the customer is trust worthy so that means  a customer updated data we can keep one risk analysis where the big data application analyse and gives data to Bank . In that very clearly it is said about the credit scoring accordingly the bank decides so that means data driven decision making very important . We humans cannot be able to do that . So that means a credit card mortagage loan is it suitable for this customer it is very important information for the bank. So Risk Management is a very important tool by the big data application .

 

5.     HR and Operations :

Human Resource and Operations in the bank this data science or artificial intelligence products is used we can see so for example a very leading bank in GCC using visual and image based artificial intelligence bots that is using this   cheques are validated. This 37 vision image validation is done by these bots . This leading bank almost 20 thousand cheques are received so their total working hours 70%  is used for the same but by using this bot within minutes they complete this process so that much efficient this is working . The second one is setting effective staffing levels that is bank always have 60% staff cost as per analysis so that is estimation  in that the pattern how many customers per day they are coming their transaction time also the resource planning given to bank so effectively fix the calender by bank how much is the resource required all those information will be given by bank through these tools .

 

6.     Customer Support:  

 Finally the last so that is when we call the bank customer get the information bots is available so this is all the output of artificial intelligence so likewise some pattern where the customers what all they are facing difficulty from the bank is it through online they the difficulty or bank difficulty so all these information can be given by bank to serve the cutomer the best .These kind of predictive information bank is getting . So likewise for the cost so how many staff can be reduced ,while handling the bots the cost considerably is less . Thus you can understand how this big data application combined with Artificial Intelligence , machine learning how the banking process supported or how the performance is maximum .

So adding to these there are so many other technologies fintech , cryptocurrency  this all banking process revolutionize transform different tools but we have seen now what is happening the process how the big data application supports.

 

Parting Thought

“ The illiterate of the 21st centurry will not be those who cannot read and write , but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”

Artificial Intelligence 



AI in Banking and Insurance

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