The Industry Shift

Customer expectations have reset. They want instant, contextual, hyper-personalized and secure help on their channel of choice, while regulators demand fair outcomes, transparent audit trail and operational resilience. Financial Institutions need to be agile to succeed in a fast changing environment. AI makes this possible, but only when paired with empathy, customer-focussed mindset and data-driven approach.

Why act now
⦁ Enhance NPS and customer loyalty with faster, more accurate and personalized answers
⦁ Reduce operating expense by automating the front and back office
⦁ De‑risk compliance with auditable journeys and policy‑aligned guidance

DIGITAL OUTCOMES DELIVERED

30%

Lower service cost

25%

Reduction in handle time

15%

CSAT Uplift

50%

Reduction in customer complaints

What’s Driving Change

AI-first Expectations

70% of banking customers expect AI to enhance response accuracy and speed

Cost-to-serve Pressures

BFS organizations seek up to 40% operations cost takeout through AI and automation

Compliance and Resilience

UK FCA’s Consumer Duty and US CFPB mandates are elevating the importance of measurable CX outcomes

Sutherland CX Solution: An Overview

Sutherland’s AI-powered CX ecosystem unifies omnichannel engagement, workforce intelligence, analytics and automation to transform customer journeys. We help BFS enterprises simplify operations, improve satisfaction, and achieve compliance — all while scaling efficiently. Unlike traditional contact center providers, Sutherland integrates products, platforms, and managed services to deliver outcomes across every customer touchpoint.

How we help

  • Multilingual, omni-channel CX and Technical Support
  • Personalized, context-aware CX
  • Seamless omnichannel engagement
  • Faster lead conversion
  • Intelligent cross-sell and up-sell
  • Built-in fraud prevention and compliance
  • Stronger loyalty and retention

Why act now

  • Faster, consistent customer service across every channel
  • Growth and customer retention
  • Reduced cost-to-serve through AI and hyper automation
  • Embedded compliance and insight-led quality control

Testimonials

Delivered multilingual CX across payments, cards, merchants, technology support, and fraud operations. Supporting B2C and B2B customers across Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. Established global centers of excellence across three geographies, and embedded PII protection using Sentinel AI. Drove digital and process transformation—resulting in a 40% reduction in cost-to-serve while maintaining service quality at scale.

Leading Cards & Payments FinTech

Enabled multi-geo, omnichannel CX across borrower support, loan origination, pre-application inquiries, post-funding service, repayments, and escalations. Built onshore and nearshore centers of excellence to improve responsiveness and service consistency, driving a 10% increase in CSAT.

Leading Consumer Lending Company

Enabled a secure, omnichannel contact center across retail banking, cards, payments, core operations, fraud, and disputes. Delivered process optimization through Lean Six Sigma, accelerated digital transformation with Sutherland FinTelligent. Leveraged speech analytics to generate actionable insights and continuously improve customer outcomes.

Leading U.S. Bank

Sutherland CX Transformation Capabilities for Financial Services

Automate. Analyze. Augment.
Sutherland helps financial institutions modernize CX across every touchpoint and BFS function by combining AI, automation, and domain expertise. Our capabilities are organized around three core transformation pillars—Automate, Analyze, and Augment—each engineered and continuously evolved by Sutherland Labs, our applied AI and innovation arm.

Analyze

Continuously analyze customer interactions, agent performance, and operational signals to drive quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Workforce Engagement & Performance
⦁ Empower frontline teams with insight-led next best actions and performance intelligence.
⦁ Predictive scheduling and AI-led performance analytics
⦁ Automated QA covering 100% of customer interactions
⦁ Personalized coaching using behavioral and sentiment insights
Powered by: Sutherland CX360®, Sutherland Agent Success

Speech, Text & Risk Analytics
Convert conversations into actionable insight across CX and risk.
⦁ Speech and text analytics for sentiment, intent, and trends
⦁ Real-time SLA, KPI, and performance monitoring
⦁ Risk, compliance, and anomaly detection across interactions
Powered by: Sutherland CX360®, Sutherland Sentinel AI®, Sutherland Labs

Augment

Augment human performance with GenAI, unified tools, and real-time guidance to deliver consistent, high-quality CX.

Unified Agent Experience
Give agents a single, intelligent workspace to resolve faster.
⦁ Unified desktop integrating systems, workflows, and data
⦁ 360 degree view of the customer
⦁ Embedded BFS applications and contextual insights
⦁ Reduced handle time and improved first-contact resolution
Powered by: Unified Desktop

Agent Assistance & Knowledge Intelligence
Support agents in the moment with GenAI-driven guidance.
⦁ Real-time next-best-action recommendations
⦁ Real-time translations
⦁ Automated call summaries and sentiment cues
⦁ GenAI-powered knowledge search and guided resolution
Powered by: Sutherland Agent Success, SmartLeap® HelpTree, Conversational AI, Sutherland Labs, Sutherland Translate AI®

Digital & Omnichannel Engagement
Meet customers where they are—securely and seamlessly.
⦁ Unified engagement across voice, chat, app, web, SMS, and social
⦁ Secure co-browse, identity verification, and policy-guided responses
⦁ Proactive lifecycle outreach for collections, renewals, and retention
Powered by: Sutherland Connect®, Conversational AI

Automate

Hyper-Automate end-to-end BFS workflows to reduce manual effort, improve speed, enhance self-serve and ensure compliance by design across onboarding, servicing, transacting, disputes, and financial crime operations.

Work Automation & Intelligent Routing
Banking interactions are time-sensitive and regulation-driven. Our automation ensures the right work reaches the right expert instantly.
⦁ Intelligent routing based on product, priority, and customer value
⦁ Real-time workload balancing to meet SLAs and reduce wait times
⦁ Automated triage, exception handling, and audit trails
Powered by: Sutherland Connect®, Sutherland FinTelligent

Onboarding & Servicing Operations
Digitize and accelerate customer journeys from KYC to ongoing servicing using AI and document intelligence.
⦁ Automated ID verification, data capture, and validation
⦁ Streamlined workflows for account, loan, and card onboarding
⦁ Exception handling and straight-through processing
Powered by: Extract.AI, Robility®, Sutherland FinTelligent

AI & Automation in Service
Deliver faster resolutions with intent-driven self-service and AI-assisted servicing.
⦁ Intelligent self-service for balances, transactions, and claims
⦁ Context-aware automation for complex servicing and disputes
⦁ Automated wrap-up, redaction, and compliance controls
Powered by: Conversational AI, Sutherland Agent Success

Agentic AI
Move beyond scripted automation to autonomous, goal-driven execution.
⦁ AI agents that plan, decide, and act across BFS workflows
⦁ Autonomous resolution for high-volume, low-risk service requests
⦁ Human-in-the-loop escalation for regulated scenarios
Powered by: Robility®

Elevated by The Sutherland Labs

Sutherland Labs is Sutherland’s applied innovation and engineering arm, where advanced AI, Agentic AI, and GenAI solutions are designed, tested, and scaled for real-world enterprise use. Embedded across the Automate, Analyze, and Augment pillars, Labs ensures every CX capability is secure, explainable, compliant, and production-ready for highly regulated financial services environments.

From building autonomous AI agents and GenAI accelerators to operationalizing analytics, automation, and unified experiences, Sutherland Labs turns innovation into measurable CX and business outcomes.

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BFS Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)

Sutherland’s BFS CCaaS brings together omnichannel technology, conversational AI, workforce intelligence, and domain-led delivery into a single managed service offering. We integrate front, middle, and back-office CX operations with built-in compliance, automation, and analytics—so BFS enterprises can scale faster, reduce cost-to-serve, and deliver consistent experiences across every customer touchpoint.

Omnichannel Customer Engagement

Engage customers seamlessly across channels with consistent service quality and context continuity.

  • Voice, digital, social channels
  • Unified customer context
  • Secure, compliant engagement

Tech & Digital Infrastructure

Delivery & Support

Insights, Automation & Integration

Who We Serve

Capital Markets
Service desk, client onboarding support and secure collaboration

Consumer Lending & Auto Finance
Proactive outreach, hardship support and compliant collections

Fintechs & Digital Banks
Scale CX and Tech support without scaling cost; accelerate product support

Cards & Payments
Disputes automation, fraud alerts and secure digital care

Credit Unions
Member‑centric engagement with enterprise‑grade AI

Retail & Consumer Banking
Faster servicing, fair outcomes and lower cost to serve

Our AI-Powered CX Product Suite

Unify engagement, automation, and intelligence into one cohesive CX ecosystem designed for financial services.

Sutherland Connect®

Enterprise-grade omnichannel platform for secure, seamless interactions across chat, voice, social, and messaging

Sutherland Connect®
Sutherland Conversational AI

Smart self-service through AI bots and virtual assistants using advanced intent detection and orchestration.

Sutherland Conversational AI
Sutherland CX360®

AI‑driven quality automation and performance intelligence that scores every interaction, surfaces insights, and guides improvement.

Sutherland CX360®
Sutherland FinTelligent

Banking-specific workflow automation for servicing, disputes, onboarding, and operations.

Sutherland FinTelligent
Sutherland Agent Success

Real-time coaching, call summarization, and next-best-action guidance to elevate agent productivity.

Sutherland Agent Success
SmartLeap® HelpTree

Smarter knowledge management for superior customer experience – powered by GenAI.

SmartLeap® HelpTree
Sutherland Anywhere®

Manage a remote workforce from anywhere in the world.

Sutherland Anywhere®
Sutherland Sentinel AI®

AI-led risk, compliance, and fraud intelligence that monitors interactions, detects anomalies, and embeds controls across CX operations.

Sutherland Sentinel AI®
Sutherland Unified Desktop

A single, intelligent agent workspace that unifies applications, data, workflows, and insights for faster resolution and lower handling time.

Sutherland Unified Desktop

Why Sutherland?

Agentic AI for BFS – 80+ AI Agents

14+ AI and Analytics Platforms for BFS

AI built for BFS — Domain-trained models and workflows accelerate impact

Best in class CX and Technical support with deep domain expertise

Human + machine orchestration — Blending empathy with intelligence for real outcomes

Regulatory confidence — Compliance and redaction built into every process

Outcome-based delivery — BPaaS flexibility across design, analytics, and operations

11000+ FTEs and 55+ Customers

Analyst Recognitions

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Sutherland Named Star Performer in Everest Group’s 2025 Financial Crime and Compliance (FCC) Operations Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment

Major Contender

Sutherland Recognized as: Major Contender – Everest Group Digital Workplaces Service PEAK Matrix Assessment 2024 | Mid-market Enterprises

Trust and safety




Placed in ‘Major Contenders’ category in its 2024 PEAK Matrix Assessment for T&S – Content Moderation

Everest Group Banking - Star Performer 2023

Placed in ‘Star Performer’ category in its 2023 Peak Matrix Assessment for Banking Operations Services

Everest Group Banking - Major Contender 2023

Placed in ‘Major Contenders’ category in its 2023 Peak Assessment Matrix for Banking Operations Services

Placed in the ‘Horizon 1’ category of the HFS Horizons: The Best Service Providers for Retail Banks 2023

Placed in the ‘Horizon 3’ category of the HFS Horizons: Customer Experience Service Providers, 2024

Our Partners

Microsoft

Delivering cutting-edge enterprise solutions for accelerating digital transformation journeys.

Salesforce

Harnessing the power of CRM solutions to transform customer experience.

Servicenow

Enabling simplified digital workflows and enhanced service management capabilities.

Zendesk

Empowering organizations to deliver exceptional customer support experiences.

Google CCAI

AI-powered conversational solutions for exceptional customer service experiences.

pega

Enabling streamlined operations and exceptional customer experiences.

Meet Our Experts

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Sumit Chopra
VP & Global Head, BFSLinkedIn Icon
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Vaibhav Grover
Head, BFS Offerings and CapabilityLinkedIn Icon
Rahul Agarwal
Rahul Agarwal
Global Head of Customer Success, BFSLinkedIn Icon
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