Customer support

RBS · LivePerson

Vendor-reportedBanking & financeScaledEnterpriseNLPLive 2017

Vendor-reported. The customer is named and the numbers are quoted from the source page, but the account comes from the vendor. No independent confirmation.

Reported by liveperson.com (vendor self-report). Checked against the source page on 2026-09-06. 5 of 5 figures below appear on that page word for word.

The problem

Customers are under increasing time restraints and are turning to digital solutions rather than traditional face-to-face contact to address their banking needs.

What was deployed

Vendor
LivePerson
Products
Cora, IBM Watson
Technique
NLP
Build or buy
Bought off the shelf
Deployment
SaaS
Scale
over 18 million customers globally, over 6.1 million mobile app users, 63K weekly messaging conversations, 40K customers per day for Cora

What changed

Each row is quoted from the source. Figures we could not find on the page in those words are marked — they are kept, not deleted, so you can judge them.

63Kweekly messaging conversationsweekly

Since introducing messaging and automation to RBS’s core operations, it has scaled to more than 63K weekly messaging conversations

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1.8efficiency over voice

with an efficiency of 1.8 over voice

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40Kcustomers served by bot dailyper day

Cora speaks to over 40K customers per day

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27conversations successfully answered by bot

She currently correctly retains and successfully answers on average 27% of conversations

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more than 35Kchats across all lines of businessper week

Additionally, its service team handles more than 35K chats across all lines of business per week.

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To successfully serve your customers well, you have to be there when you want you, in a channel that the customer wants to use. Our long-term relationship with LivePerson allows us to do that, through every type of messaging, integration of our bot, and many other digital solutions.
Alice Fryatt, Head of Digital Customer Support Delivery

Difficulties and limits

Sources

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