Director, Strategic Insights
Here’re the latest customer engagement statistics from the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry. We continuously analyze the data and, as meaningful insights emerge, we are happy to share them.
Here are the two key takeaways, displayed in greater detail in the BFSI customer engagement charts below:
Pandemic-induced lockdowns in March and April 2020 led more customers to request online help—lifting contact volume by nearly a third and proving that the BFSI industry could successfully provide its services remotely.
BFSI companies already equipped with online customer service were largely unimpacted by the pandemic.
The chatbot containment rate has been outstripping IVR’s rate by 5-10 percentage points, and is trending upward as we continuously optimize our algorithms. A higher containment rate is very encouraging for self-serve customer service.
Chatbots resolve customer queries about 50 percent faster than we see in the IVR channel, which is due mostly to IVR’s limitations.
The top ten intents for 2020 and 2021, shown below, account for roughly 80 percent of all traffic. Customer insurance-related queries in 2021 dropped about 38 percent YoY, while account-related queries went up about 18 percent YoY.
When the pandemic restricted agent availability, in March-May 2020, enhanced AI chatbot capabilities came to the rescue. Live agent interactions plummeted 26 percent in those three months, while bot interactions compensated by rising 2.4X.
Bot and agent interactions closely tracked one another from the summer of 2020 until early summer 2021; since then, bot interactions have significantly outdistanced live agent interactions.
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