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Transforming Legacy Banking Systems through Machine Learning - A Real-World Platform Modernization Story

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Discover how leading banks revolutionize legacy systems with AI! Neural networks on iSeries platforms and deep learning boost fraud detection 40% while maintaining stability. Real-world case studies reveal the path to AI-driven banking excellence.

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Hey, good day to everyone. My name is Salam. I'm part of Core I-T-S-L-L-C. Today I wanna talk about the transforming legacy banking system through machine learning. Today I want to share with you a real world story, not very, not concept, but the actual journey of how we took. A legacy banking system and transformed it into the digital first mission learning driven platform. So this transformation wasn't just about the upgrade, it was about rethinking processes, reimagining customer experiences, and building an agile resilient, and. So over 18 months, we revolutionized our operations moving cloud native architecture and adopting an API first design. Every change we made was measured by one simple question, does this make experience better for our customers and easier for our teams? Today, I will walk you through the challenges we face, the architecture we build, that dramatic results we achieved, and most importantly, the key lessons we learned that could help anyone tackling similar transformations. Let's see our transformation overview here. So our journey unfolded through four carefully orchestrated phases. First one is the planning, so where we assess our legacy systems and identify the key modernization priorities. The second one is migration. So this was about careful. 12.5 million customers counts ensuring that with minimal disruption. And the third one, actually this we knew that our, any slip up would impact trust. And in banking we know that trust is everything. So the third one is the implementation. Here we. Cloud native architecture and API first principles unlocking agility and scalability. So finally is optimization. So the transformation did not stop once we went live, so we committed to a cycle of continuous improvement, fine tuning processes, measuring outcomes. And iterating for. So each phase we built on the previous one leading us to a stable, scalable, and customer focused platform. So let's see. The legacy challenge is here. So let's our starting point. So our legacy systems had a serious issues performance, bottlenecks made transactions sluggish. A 3.2 second delay might not sound huge, but to a customer use instant app, it felt painful, slow. So we had limited integration capabilities. Every system was its own line. So without unified customer view, we could not deliver personalized service or anticipate needs. So security was another major problem. Outdated protocols expose us to compliance risk that regulators would. Finally, maintenance crisis maintenance pause for skyrocketing. So we needed specialized support just to keep lights on with no room for our innovation. So these challenges weren't just technical, they directly impacted customer first. He employ more and our. Comp two position in the market. So let's see, the next slide, the technical architecture transformation. So to follow the about discussed challenges in the last slide. So we did not just batch the old system, we reimagine. Let's see. The first one, we adopted a microservices architecture. So instead of used monolithic applications, we built small independent services that could be developed and deployed separately. So next we move on to the cloud infrastructure. Scaling resources up or down dynamically, depending on the load, without over provisioning. And next hour is our API first design created, standardized, reusable interfaces that made integration with both internal and external systems, seamless. And we everything with. Assuming nothing inside or outside was worthy until proven otherwise. So this combination give us the flexibility, resilience, callability, and top-notch security. So let's move on to the next slide, is the performance improvements. So let's see the results here. So the transaction processing speed. Drop by 75 percentage from 3.2 seconds to the just 0.8 seconds. So our platforms processing capability, capacity, surge by that 300 percentage easily by handling over 2.3 million transactions day. So through the migration. And beyond. We achieved 99.999 percentage uptime. So thinking about that virtually, there was no downtime at all during the complete platform. So our system downtime across 18 months was just 0.01%. It came from deliverable deliber rate design, constant monitoring, and a culture of continuous testing and improvement. So it showed our customers they could trust the new system, and it gave our teams confidence to keep the innovating customer experience impact. So now you can imagine customers notice the difference immediately. So our customer satisfaction score here it's climbed from 52 percentage after modernization our net. It's an indicator how likely customers are to recommend us. This was Rose, rose dramatically from 28 to the 52 percentage. So our mobile app ratings also improved here. This is an from average 3.4 stars to the 0.7 stars. We like this new experience with this statistic, so even better customer retention here. So the ultimate proof of satisfaction jumped from the 76 percentage to the 92 percentage. So in banking where switching costs or high, but competition. So that's a use gain. So the. They were the reflection of how much value we had unlocked for our customers. So let's move on to the next slide. Accelerated customer onboarding. So one area where transformation made a massive difference was customer onboarding. So before modernization. Opening a new account took 48 hours, so multiple branch visits, manual document verification, overnight batch cycles. So as part of our intermediate improvements, we introduced the partial automation and the digital document upload, cutting the process to about four hours. But the real game change came with a full modernization. Today a customer can open a new account within 15 minutes, a fully digital biometric verification, AI driven in KY ctr, in intent account provisioning. This streamline process lead to a 70 27 percentage increase in new account openings providing that. Frictionle experiences drive real business world. So in the in business growth. So let's see, the next slide, enhance regulatory compliance. So let's see. The compliance has always been critical in financial services. We all know. When regulators are the only are only getting its sector. So let's see. The before transformation and the opta transformation, what was the changes here? So before modernization, we relied on manual compliance check and reactive monitoring our compliance rate over. Around 97.5 percentage, which sounds okay, but until you realize it means the real risk. Slipping through audit preparations took year, two weeks consuming, tons of internal resources and, but whereas a post transformation, it took it's it here, compliance is. So we have continuous monitoring and real time altering. Our compliance rate shoot up 99.99 percentage. And audit preparation now takes only just three days. And more importantly, our teams can spend more time in strengthening the operations instead of, scrambling to checkbox as well. So let's see the, our next slide. Migration success metric. The migration itself was a huge endeavor and a huge success. We moved to 1.5 million customer customer accounts to a new system without a single data loss. We read the redesign and optimize. 8 43 critical banking processes to run on the cloud native infrastructure. So testing was in a comprehensive year, 1.2 million automated test cases covering 98.7 percentage of the platform and deployments that used to take 72 percentage no, 72 hours. Full weekend of downtime. Now just take just 25 minutes with the continuous in, with continuous integrations and continuous deployments. So this wasn't just a technology upgrade, it was a fundamental change in how we operated, tested and delivered banking services. So let's move on to the next slide employee adoption strategy. So node transformation succeeds without the people behind it. So our employee adoption strategy focus first on the awareness. Make sure everyone understood that. Why behind this chain. So we launched the communication campaigns to explain not just what was changing, but how it could, would make employees work easier and more rewarding. Training programs. We gave teams to an experience with. Dedicated support teams were available to troubleshoot issues during the LA transformation, the early transition stage. And crucially, we kept optimizing the platform based on the employee feedback, not just the technical scale. So as a result, we achieved the 89 percentage of stock adoption within just three months. Yeah, using forever transformation of this scale. So let's see the next slide the cost optimization results. So financially the transformation more than justified itself. So infrastructure cost fell down by 42 percentage thanks to the cloud optimization and the maintenance expenses are dropped by. 58 percentage. Because of the automation and the simpler architectures, we slashed a third party licensing cost by 37 percentage by consolidating vendors and using open source solutions wherever is possible. And the development time for new features decrease 58 percentage letting us innovation to. Letting us innovation faster and supporting ticket fell down by 72 percentage showing that better systems lead to the fewer problems overall. The operations expenses dropped by the 35 percentage, so that free up investment for future innovation. And what is improvement? See. Then the next slide is integration strategy. So here, integration was a major pillar for our success. So we built an API Gateway, gateway layer that unified access to all services, all and new in a standardized. Now either service mesh, manage the service to service communication securely inside the cloud native. And our data integration layer ensure consistent access to legacy and the modern systems like, and our security framework. Across the board. So this approach let us modernize gradually without forcing an overnight cutover, reducing risk, preserving continuity, and giving the teams time to adopt. So let's see the risk mitigation techniques we can discuss here. What are the risks we are seeing? We knew the transformation at. And we address them around. So we ran parallel systems with synchronized data to ensure no service interruptions. So Canary deployment allowed us to test new features with small percentage of profit. First, ensuring the confidence before people rollout. So the rollback capabilities mean. That if anything went wrong, we could revert changes in, instantly without impacting the customers. So the realtime monitoring, monitoring across performance, security, and system health enabled past dimension and resolution of issues. And the cross functional teams bringing together a technical business and compliance experts to ensure a 360 degree view of every risk. So let's move on to the next slide. The key takeaways and the next step. First, a comprehensive strategy, aligning technical, organizational, and customer goal is essential for any successful transformation. So second the critical to balance innovation with stability. So evaluation, not evaluation in ecosystems. So here the. Each one prioritize the change management just as much as technology upgrades, because adoption and drivers drives the real results. Now the fourth one is abra API first design. It's your gateway to future ecosystems and open banking innovations. So our journey shows that legacy systems can be modernized successfully at scale without losing capability. Now we are pushing forward into AI driven personalization, deeper open banking integrations and ER analytics. So this all about Thank you. All for your time and attention today. I hope our story showed that with the right strategy and execution, even more complex legacy systems can be transformed successfully. So modernization isn't just about the technology, it's about empowering and improving customer experiences. We are excited to explore ai, open banking and new innovations built on our modern platform. So I had love to connect and discuss how these ideas could apply to your own transformation journey. Thank you once again for your time and if you have any questions or would. Alum us@gmail.com. I would like to repeat again, S-R-I-N-I-V-A-S-A-L-L-A-M-U s@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you all. Thank you, and you have a great day. Bye.
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Srinivas Allam

IBM iSeries Senior Program Analyst @ Core ITS

Srinivas Allam's LinkedIn account



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