CitySavings ramps up digital transformation push

CITY Savings Bank, the thrift subsidiary of Aboitiz-led UnionBank, is strengthening its digital transformation as part of its goal to help more underserved

This comes alongside the appointment of UnionBank’s chief technology and operations officer and chief transformation officer Henry Aguda, as its new chairman of the board.

Aguda’s expertise is expected to boost the Aboitiz thrift bank’s digital transformation initiative.

“Henry brings with him a wealth of expertise that was also instrumental in UnionBank’s successful digital transformation. With his appointment as its new Chairman, we are confident that CitySavings will be able to go further in its transformation journey, allowing it to cater to the underserved segment much better,” Larry Ocampo, bank president and chief executive, said in a statement.

“CitySavings has been helping many of our kababayans through accessible financing options, and our priority is to bring these loans to even more potential customers by optimizing the Bank’s existing customer touch points and the infrastructures that support them, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) models created by our Data Science and AI Team,” Aguda said.

The bank has seen great results with its initial pilot of AI-driven solutions that utilized historical data to improve customer relevance for loans availment, achieving a conversion rate of 35 percent in its testing phase.

The bank also created an in-house credit scoring model to complement its AI capabilities, which resulted in improved turnaround time and enabled the it to raise its motorcycle loans portfolio to P7.06 billion as of end-March. The firm’s stronger, AI-focused digital push is seen to magnify the success of these projects, allowing it to serve even more customers.

The Aboitiz-led firm sees digital transformation as a necessary step in achieving this goal. By utilizing emerging technologies as well as key learnings from its parent bank UnionBank, CitySavings hopes to shore up its digital capabilities, and in turn create products and services that are more meaningful to Filipinos.

“This renewed commitment to digitally transforming our organization will allow us to harness innovation like never before and serve our customers better. We want the next motorcycle loan applicant to be able to get their new motorcycle within the same hour, or the next teacher to be able to enjoy the most flexible loan repayment plan possible,” said Ocampo. (CSL)

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