NewsletterDecember 2025

Introducing BankBuddy 7.0

BankBuddy 7.0 connects intelligence to action across your banking ecosystem with agentic AI orchestration, seamless platform integration, and pre-built, AI native journeys across retail, corporate, and investment banking.

When AI Meets Fragmentation, Scale Breaks

Most banking architectures were never designed for AI-led execution. They were built for linear workflows, channel-specific logic, human-led handoffs, and static rules engines.

AI breaks these assumptions. Once intelligence becomes real-time, probabilistic, and adaptive, point solutions collapse under their own boundaries. Models cannot see full context. Insights cannot trigger action safely. Decisions cannot propagate across channels. Risk and compliance cannot keep pace.

This is why adding more AI to fragmented systems slowed banks down in 2025 — instead of speeding them up.

Why All-in-One Banking Platforms Are the Future

AI does not scale in silos. AI scales only when the platform itself becomes the decision fabric.

The next generation of banking platforms must carry customer, risk, and operational context end-to-end. They must allow AI to decide and execute within policy boundaries. They must coordinate humans, automation, and channels as one system. And they must remain auditable, explainable, and regulator-safe.

This is not a tooling problem. It is a platform operating model shift.

What 2025 Made Unavoidable

Across banks globally, the same patterns repeated: AI generated insights—but execution stalled. Channels appeared intelligent—but behaved independently. Automation increased—but accountability weakened.

The challenge was not AI maturity. It was platform maturity.

Core Platform Features

What Makes BankBuddy 7.0 Different

A new operating model for AI-native banking.

Agentic AI as an Operating Model

AI agents operate across onboarding, lending, payments, servicing, and collections as coordinated flows — governed by policy, fully auditable, and always under human control.

One Orchestration Layer Across All Channels

Branch, kiosk, wallet, contact center, telephony, and assisted journeys share the same decision and execution fabric. Customers experience continuity. Banks experience control.

Infrastructure-Grade AI Journeys

Over 300 production-ready journeys embed regulatory logic, risk controls, and operational safeguards — allowing AI to act without introducing compliance risk.

Digital and Physical Convergence

AI does not stop at digital channels. Smart branches, assisted service, kiosks, and queue systems operate on the same intelligence layer — enabling true end-to-end execution.

Looking Ahead to 2026

As banks move deeper into AI-led operations, one reality is clear: AI without orchestration introduces risk. Orchestration without AI limits competitiveness.

The future belongs to platforms that unify intelligence and execution, automation and human judgment, digital and physical banking, speed and regulatory control.

BankBuddy 7.0 and the Next Phase of Banking

BankBuddy 7.0 is our contribution to this future:

  • Built from real, large-scale deployments
  • Designed for AI, open banking, security, and regulation
  • Focused on outcomes — not experiments

The conversation for 2026 has already begun. Thank you to our customers, partners, and teams for the trust that shaped this journey. We look forward to continuing it together.

From Insight to Outcomes

BankBuddy 7.0 is proven in live enterprise environments—not pilots, not experiments. Across regions, banks and financial institutions are translating AI insights into measurable outcomes, faster execution, and better customer experiences.

Kina Bank

PeiBeta Digital Wallet

Launched a high-scale digital wallet using BankBuddy Digital Core, merchant, and agency banking—enabling rapid adoption, reliable remittances, and scalable merchant acceptance.

First Capital Bank

Smart Branch

Live across four countries, transforming branches into high-velocity digital service hubs. Unified kiosks, queue management, and assisted services integrate seamlessly with Finacle core banking.

Dubai Islamic Bank

Composable AI & Hyper-Personalization

Upgraded to composable AI to automate service requests and transactions, significantly reducing operational effort. Enabled zero-touch new customer acquisition for Islamic finance products.

NMB Bank

GenAI

Moved from basic automation to an enterprise-grade GenAI framework capable of handling complex, unstructured customer inquiries and transactions at scale.

DSB Bank

Agentic AI CX

Deployed multilingual conversational bots that manage end-to-end customer lifecycles, improving accessibility and service continuity.

HFC Bank

Agency Banking & Smart Onboarding

Enabled agency banking with automated customer onboarding and KYC for retail and corporate customers. Integrated across multiple touchpoints—powered by AI-driven journey orchestration.

Banco Keve

WhatsApp Banking (Portuguese)

GenAI-powered WhatsApp banking for queries, payments, transfers, and service requests—driving engagement through a familiar channel.

Family Bank

Omnichannel Agentic CX

Omnichannel, agentic AI experience that supports customer transactions and service journeys with consistency across channels.

Bank Simpanan Nasional

Agentic CRM & Customer 360

Implemented agentic AI for CRM, lead management, and Customer 360—enabling smarter engagement and conversion.

Philippine National Bank

Multi-Country CX Orchestration

Rolled out agentic AI-powered CX journeys across corporate and retail banking, spanning multiple countries.

Leading Insurtech Saudi Arabia

Omnichannel Insurance CX

Built an omnichannel insurance CX platform with real-time sentiment detection and human-in-the-loop (HITL) controls for better service quality and compliance.

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