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The second session in our virtual fireside chat series, “Client insights and intel,” welcomed Greg Williamson, Vice President, Customer Protection, Information Security and IT Controls at Prudential Financial.  Greg spoke at length about simplifying technology and why their approach is critical for improving the customer journey and delivering a better customer experience. “Like with anything we have […]

I could not have been prouder of our team when I got the news that Nuance was named the industry leader in Opus Research’s latest Intelliview Report. Of course, it’s exciting whenever we get third party validation of our technology and outpace competitors, but this report was different. It was powerful because of what exactly […]

The challenges of fighting fraud across multiple channels I started by asking Chuck about the overlap between the challenges he faces and those of companies like Fidelity and Prudential. He agreed that those institutions face many of the same challenges when servicing retail investors advisors but pointed out that because BNY Mellon are serving multiple […]

The second session in our virtual fireside chat series, “Client insights and intel” welcomed Greg Williamson, Vice President, Customer Protection, Information Security and IT Controls at Prudential Financial.  Greg spoke at length about simplifying technology and why their approach is critical for improving the customer journey and delivering a better customer experience. “Like with anything we […]

When you hear that a company is changing the way it authenticates its customers, it’s natural to think that fraud prevention must be the key driver. But that isn’t always the case. In our Creating Compelling Conversations webinar series, we spoke to an industry leader whose security strategy looked a little different. Leon Denk, Product […]

As part of our “Client insights and intel” webinar series, I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mark DiMarzio, VP Risk of Fidelity Investments, during a virtual fireside chat.  Mark spoke about business practices to address increases in fraud volume, thinking through fraud verification and alert processes, and how to help his team understand patterns […]

As one of Australia’s “big four” financial institutions, National Australia Bank (NAB) serves more than 6 million customers across the country with around 2,000 frontline bankers handling more 8 million inbound calls every year. That’s a lot of phone interactions, making it difficult to deliver exceptional customer service, especially when time-consuming – and sometimes confusing […]

For many organisations, the contact centre is still the most important channel for customer engagement. But it’s also the most difficult to protect using traditional fraud prevention and detection techniques. It’s a tempting target for fraudsters, and research shows that 61% of fraud touches the contact centre at some stage.1 One of the biggest vulnerabilities […]

Fraudsters don’t stop their crimes because of a pandemic. They often seize the immense change that comes with an event like this to ramp up activity. With the recent shift to a stay-at-home world, there is a significant increase in fraudster attacks against call centers – testing for vulnerabilities by directly attacking work-at-home agents, or […]

Improving the customer experience is all about removing friction from every interaction. The easier it is to interact with your brand, the more likely your customers are to stay long-term. But what could be more frictionful (if that’s a word) than calling an IVR and having to answer a multitude of security questions? Not only […]