NatWest Group partners with Accenture and AWS for a 5-year digital and AI overhaul to enhance customer experience and streamline banking operations.
NatWest Group has announced a major five-year collaboration with Accenture and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate its digital and AI transformation, aiming to provide more personalised, efficient, and engaging experiences for its 20 million customers.
The initiative will modernise NatWest’s data, analytics, and AI capabilities, with the goal of anticipating customer needs, streamlining internal processes, and improving operational performance across the bank.
“We are excited to partner with NatWest and AWS and bring our deep industry experience and data and AI expertise to this reinvention, which will increase efficiency, drive greater productivity and create value,” Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture, said.
By consolidating data streams into a unified platform and leveraging automation, NatWest intends to reduce costs, improve fraud prevention, and simplify customer interactions such as onboarding and document processing.
As part of the initiative, the bank also plans to upskill its workforce with new AI tools and nurture a data-driven culture. These changes will support the bank’s strategic priorities of disciplined growth, simplified operations, and stronger risk management.
“Our industry—and the expectations of our customers—are changing rapidly and we are building our capabilities in order to understand and serve their needs better and faster than ever before, ” Paul Thwaite, CEO of NatWest Group, said.
He further added that equipped with high quality data, we can continue to quietly revolutionise customer service through the use of AI and other technologies in order to provide more personalised products and services.
The collaboration will also support capital management and improve financial, regulatory, and risk reporting through better data sourcing, while introducing new AI-powered capabilities for relationship managers to gain deeper insights into customer relationships.“NatWest is working with AWS and Accenture to bring together banking data to better serve customers. Using AWS’s deep and extensive experience in financial services technology, NatWest is setting new standards in banking as a more agile, customer-focused bank,” Matt Garman, CEO of AWS said.
