Swedbank is one of the largest retail banks in Sweden with a presence in the Baltic countries as well as the US and China. It found that its customers (58% of whom favor digital channels for their financial services), as well as it’s 700-strong team of contact centre agents, were spending a lot of time trying to find the information they needed. Swedbank turned to Nuance and its Nina Web ‘virtual assistant to solve the problem. As a result, Swedbank has used the virtual assistant to provide a more personalised customer experience which has resulted in two million out of its six million annual calls now being resolved through easier self-service. This is allowing contact centre agents to spend more time helping customers with more complex queries. This has resulted in 78% first-contact resolution and is averaging over 30,000 conversations per month. This has also resulted in 55% of those conversations being deflected, meaning that those customers do not need to take any further action, such as calling the contact centre.