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Panel Discussion Explores: “Who owns the customer in the age of digital?” at the FSI Leaders Summit

The Keynote Panel Discussion, “Who owns the customer in the age of digital?”  was moderated by David Redhill, CMO, Deloitte and featured panelists, Basker Rangachari, Global Head of Digital & Brand, Standard Chartered Bank, Joe Chapman, Head of CRM & Analytics, TAL Life, Pam Rebecca, General Manager – Digital, ANZ.

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The well-documented digital disruption of Financial Services has had profound impacts on the way financial products are developed, strategy is executed, and experience delivered. Customers expect an ever more personalised service at the time and in the location of their choosing, requiring an integration of segmentation strategy, data, targeting and experience design that appears seamless at every touchpoint.

So, is anyone ultimately responsible for the customer agenda – or have we entered an era of genuine shared responsibility between those who run the technology, cut the data, and market the offer? And what implications do the need for greater customer intimacy have on the culture of financial organisations?

This Keynote Panel Discussion focused on the major changes in the Financial Services sector due to the digital disruption by highlighting the culture customer experience, engagement and communication in today’s digitally evolving workforce.

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David RedhillDavid Redhill is Chief Marketing Officer for Deloitte in Australia. He has worked in Europe, the US and Australia in branding, journalism, PR, digital and content production for over 30 years, but has re-learned everything he knows about marketing in the last five. David considers Deloitte as the ideal place to be a student of the future, with its unique confluence of data, digital and design capabilities, and an extraordinary story to tell about cultural renewal driving one of Australia’s best corporate turnaround stories.

 

STANDARD CHARTER BANKBasker Rangachari is the Global Head of Digital & Brand, Standard Chartered Bank. His role covers across all segments including Retail, Commercial, Private, Corporate and Institutional Clients globally. Since joining SCB in 2005, he has held leadership positions in Unsecured Lending, Bancassurance, Strategic Alliances, Customer Loyalty and was recently CMO North East Asia prior to his current role. Basker has received several industry awards including Marketer of the Year; Brand of the Year; Digital Marketer of the Year; Top 50 CMOs in Asia Pacific; etc. Prior to SCB, Basker worked in MasterCard International, where he rebuilt their Thailand business with 300% revenue growth, doubled market share and built many strategic alliances regionally. Basker has 27 years business experience across multiple industries and disciplines, and has lived in India, Dubai, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand. He is a Gold Medallist Chartered Certified Accountant (UK), with a Masters degree from University of Technology Sydney.

AAEAAQAAAAAAAAJzAAAAJDQwNjRjYWExLWI2NjUtNGUwNi05MGM0LWQ0MTNjM2IzMTVmNQJoe Chapman, Head of CRM & Analytics, TAL Life has over 10 years’ experience in Marketing Analytics and CRM related functions with 5 spent in Financial Services at CBA and now TAL. Joe manages an end-to-end CRM and Analytics function at TAL across their direct-to-consumer brands, encompassing Marketing Campaign Analysts, Data Scientists and Customer Lifecycle Managers.

Pam Rebecca ANZPam Rebecca was appointed General Manager, ANZ Digital in October 2012, with responsibility for leading ANZ Australia’s Digital channels including anz.com, ANZ goMoney™ and ANZ Internet Banking. Pam is also the Digital Transformation lead for the Banking of Australia program with responsibility for driving ANZ’s Digital agenda – the cornerstone of ‘Banking on Australia’, a five-year, $1.5 billion investment program designed to reshape ANZ’s business to make it easier for Australians to bank with ANZ. Pam has over 30 years experience in banking and finance across sales and channel management, operations management, credit risk, human resources (including strategy and employee relations) and finance. Prior to her appointment as GM ANZ Digital, Pam was General Manager ANZ Direct with responsibility for managing ANZ’s Contact Centres with approximately 1500 staff over 4 locations. Pam also had responsibility for leading ANZ’s global voice and contact centre strategy. Pam holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) with Honours from Queensland University of Technology and an MBA from the University of Melbourne. She is a self confessed geek with multiple devices (2 iPhones, 2 iPads, a Kindle, a fitbit and a laptop), and leads an active digital life. She very much enjoys being coached in emerging digital trends by her two teenage daughters and some of the younger members of ANZ’s Digital team.

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Neal Cross, Managing Director & Chief Innovation Officer, DBS Bank, “Building Engines of Innovation” at the FSI Leaders Summit

Neal Cross, Managing Director & Chief Innovation Officer, DBS Bank provided the Opening Keynote Presentation on, “Building Engines of Innovation” at the FSI Leaders Summit. This presentation focused on how DBS is fundamentally evolving the culture of the organization to deliver large-scale repeatable innovation inside and outside of the bank.

Neal opened this presentation by speaking on the innovation focus at DBS Bank. “We’re pretty aggressive on innovation,” he said, highlighting the 3 month sabbatical that DBS offers to its employees in order to explore innovation.

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“Australian Banks are the most innovative in the world,” Neal Cross, Managing Director & Chief Innovation Officer, DBS Bank on “Engines of Innovation”

DBS has been innovating the way it does banking, with the understanding that the way in which customers live, work and bank is changing dramatically. The drive to be at the forefront of this change was set in motion in 2010 by CEO Piyush Gupta, and the bank’s innovation efforts today are anchored around three big ideas:

• An increased focus on digitisation to further enhance efficiency
• Making the customer experience more interactive and intuitive
• Analytics and the use of Big Data, both structured and unstructured

More recently, DBS has rolled out a number of trailblazing initiatives. This year, the bank reached a major milestone in its innovation journey, moving into the R&D and ideation space via a partnership with A*STAR’s Institute of Infocomm Research in Singapore. The two have set up a joint lab driving innovation through research and experimentation. DBS has also announced an agreement with IBM to tap into Watson’s capabilities to harness Big Data so as to provide more precise, customised and quality actionable insights that meet its customers’ needs.

With financial institutions seeing increasing threat and competition from non-traditional players, and digitisation making it possible for new players to encroach on banks’ traditional field of business, DBS recently announced that it will be investing SGD 200 million over the next three years to up the ante in digital banking. Apart from integrating banking into customers’ digital lifestyles, the initiative also aims to leverage technologies to reach large retail markets with a growing digitally savvy group of consumers.

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“I don’t think any banks have gotten it right yet,” Neal said before offering advice; “…be more ambitious.”

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Neal is responsible for driving the bank’s innovation agenda across its key axes of growth, namely, Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia; working with internal stakeholders and external collaborators, he will chart a next-phase innovation roadmap for DBS to enhance customer experience and better engage the bank’s customers in the digital landscape.

 

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