A global survey has revealed that 39 per cent of financial institutions experienced at least one security breach within the past year. Of the institutions surveyed globally, 47 per cent have maintained or increased IT security staffing in the past...
Increasingly, there are also pushes to deliver more to customers before boxes turn up.iForce centres allow users to mess around with configurations and hardware and software, while a 'customer-ready systems' initiative lets users dial-in to...
It's good for those customers who are still a little bit worried about talking to their bank manger," he said, adding the bank has in-person support for those who would rather talk to a 'real' call centre agent.
In fact amongst contact centres with over 250 agent positions, only 23 per cent continued to use a pure TDM system. IP contact centres are also particularly useful in multimedia environments because any type of contact can be routed to any agent...
Daniele Bonfanti, programme manager for the European IT Opportunity Financial Services programme at IDC, said this means more dynamic flexible sourcing strategies that combine outsourcing, offshoring, shared service centres, consortia, and joint...
Recent data security incidents at Indian call centres will also stop financial institutions offshoring there in the short and medium term, according to a third of the survey respondents. But that contrasts with high street bank HSBC, which is...