DBS leverages Kasisto's conversational AI platform to launch digibank, an entire bank in the phone, in Indonesia

With the KAI-powered assistant, digibank customers experience a seamless banking journey that is akin to having a banker at one's beck and call, without having to speak to a call center agent – a must-have requirement for any mobile-first bank. KAI's unique ability to hold human-like conversations ensures the experience is as natural as interacting with a teller. Since the KAI-powered assistant is an expert in banking, the conversations are accurate and contextual – helping customers manage money, track expenses, analyze spending, and improve overall financial literacy and financial well-being.

Customers are able to converse with digibank's AI-powered virtual assistant in Bahasa Indonesia, the official language of the country. In the mobile app, customers simply type, "What is my account balance?" or, "Please show me my five latest transactions," and the KAI-powered assistant will respond with a personal, human-like answer.

Via intelligent conversations, the assistant helps digibank customers to:

• Improve their financial literacy and user education via a series of conversational FAQs
• Increase their financial well-being with a contextual dashboard
• Rapidly gain access to account information and balances
• Locate transactions by data, merchant or category
• Streamline customer onboarding and self-service support

"DBS is changing the face and economics of banking to make lifestyle banking a reality – giving customers the ability to bank anytime, anywhere. For the last three years, DBS has been deeply immersed in a digital agenda and put conversational AI at the forefront," said Zor Gorelov, CEO and Co-Founder at Kasisto. "They have been an incredible partner delivering on their AI vision and leveraging KAI Banking to create entirely new banking experiences that can be customized for channels and languages. It's exciting to see them seamlessly add new features and launch in new markets with KAI acting as their single AI-powered banking brain."

"With the advent of technology, banking as we know it is being completely transformed. Digibank places an entire bank in our customers' hands, freeing up their valuable time, and allowing them to 'Live More, Bank Less.' For DBS, digibank is a game changer, enabling us to go beyond the confines of brick and mortar to extend our reach into huge Asian markets," said Piyush Gupta, DBS CEO. "With KAI Banking, we are able to make banking more interactive and intuitive for our customers."

The digibank in Indonesia launch follows the successful rollout of digibank in India in April last year, which has enabled DBS to penetrate India's retail banking market with about 1.5 million new customers acquired to date. The Kasisto and DBS partnership started with the Indian launch of DBS digibank, India's first mobile-only bank, and very quickly, DBS leveraged KAI Banking's agile environment and omni-channel capabilities to expand the KAI-powered assistant from mobile to the web and Facebook Messenger, and to extend from India to Singapore and now Indonesia as well as support both English and Bahasa Indonesia.

These are the world's most mature and advanced conversational AI deployments in banking. In India, digibank's KAI-powered virtual assistant handles 82% of customer inquiries and requests without a live agent's involvement. Less than 18% of digibank customers in India require live chat sessions – even the smartest assistants cannot support all imaginable customer interactions. In these instances, the KAI assistant makes a seamless hand-off to a live agent and ensures a positive user experience with context and continuity. DBS digibank requires just a fifth of the resources of a traditional bank set-up due to cost-saving features such as an artificial intelligence-driven bot and virtual assistant.

Digibank by DBS is now available for download on AppStore or GooglePlay, with more information available at www.dbsdigibank.co.id

About Kasisto
Founded in 2013, Kasisto is on a mission to enable companies to attract, engage, support, and transact with their customers via human-like, intelligent conversations, anytime, anywhere. Kasisto's conversational AI platform, KAI, powers omni-channel bots and virtual assistants with deep domain expertise across mobile apps, web, messaging platforms, wearables, and IoT devices. With contextual and personalized conversations, they fulfill requests, solve problems, and predict needs as well as help companies support, market, and upsell products and services. Built with the deepest AI portfolio in the industry, KAI is an agile platform with self-service tools to customize and continually improve consumer experiences and seamlessly add new features. Marquee customers include DBS Bank, Wells Fargo and Mastercard. As an SRI International spin-off, Kasisto leverages decades of artificial intelligence research and IP to create a full-stack, scalable, enterprise-ready platform. For more information visit www.kasisto.com and follow @kasistoinc on Twitter.

About DBS
DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia, with over 280 branches across 18 markets. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, DBS has a growing presence in the three key Asian axes of growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The bank's "AA-" and "Aa1" credit ratings, is among the highest in the world.

DBS is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, and has been named "World's Best Digital Bank" by Euromoney. The bank has also been recognised for its leadership in the region, having been named "Asia's Best Bank" by several publications including The Banker, Global Finance, IFR Asia and Euromoney since 2012. In addition, the bank has been named "Safest Bank in Asia" by Global Finance for eight consecutive years from 2009 to 2016.

DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking. As a bank born and bred in Asia, DBS understands the intricacies of doing business in the region's most dynamic markets. DBS is committed to building lasting relationships with customers, and positively impacting communities through supporting social enterprises, as it banks the Asian way. It has also established a SGD 50 million foundation to strengthen its corporate social responsibility efforts in Singapore and across Asia.

With its extensive network of operations in Asia and emphasis on engaging and empowering its staff, DBS presents exciting career opportunities. The bank acknowledges the passion, commitment and can-do spirit in all of our 22,000 staff, representing over 40 nationalities. For more information, please visit www.dbs.com.

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