RBL Bank selects AWS to accelerate AI efforts

Our Bureau Updated - August 09, 2021 at 04:35 PM.

It will leverage Amazon Textract across the bank’s risk and operations to analyse documents

A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past an RBL Bank Ltd. branch on a near-empty street in Mumbai, India, on Monday, May 4, 2020. India's central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das and the chief executive officers of the nation's banks have discussed ways to ensure credit flow to businesses once the world's toughest stay-at-home order ends. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

RBL Bank has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, as its cloud provider.

AWS would help RBL Bank strengthen its AI-powered banking solutions and drive digital transformation at the lender.

“The bank is building on its analytics practice and investing in AI capabilities to implement various use cases across multiple segments, including risk, customer service, human resources, and operations,” RBL Bank said in a statement on Monday.

It will leverage Amazon Textract, a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents, across the bank’s risk and operations divisions to analyse documents such as financial statements, stock statements, and stock audit reports to predict default risk.

“Using ML allows analysts at RBL Bank to extract data and automate the handling of 2,500 documents per quarter,” the bank said.

Other use cases already being tested within the operations division include using services like Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Textract to automatically extract and match customer signatures and running fuzzy match algorithms to replace manual name match for various processes, it further said.

Published on August 9, 2021 11:00