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Prabhu Bank Limited, Nepal Deploys Infosys Finacle to Power its Digital Banking Strategy

Industry leading core banking solution will help drive deeper customer engagement, innovation led growth, and operational excellence for the bank

Bengaluru, India and Kathmandu, Nepal – September 15, 2020

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY) and Prabhu Bank Limited, a leading banking and financial services group in Nepal, today announced the successful implementation of the Finacle Core Banking Solution. Prabhu Bank is now well positioned to scale its retail and corporate operations and provide customers a digital experience, with an enriched product and services portfolio.

Highlights:

  • New customers onboarding and opening new accounts, complete with all features enabled, will now be possible in just 15 minutes. Since implementation, Prabhu Bank Limited has on-boarded more than 1.4 million accounts on the new platform
  • The bank can now offer tailored products to its customers based on a unified customer view and embedded insights, in real time, across channels. It also has the advantage of embedded analytics to gain deep insights and customize offerings, throughout the customer journey
  • Ease of business process orchestration has ensured more control and significant improvement in productivity across front-to-back office operations. Digitization and automation across processes will help lower costs of servicing and improve quality of experience
  • With an open solution, the bank is well placed to accelerate ecosystem-innovation strategies to deliver differentiated offerings to its customers

CAS Total Solutions, an Infosys Finacle business partner, played an integral part in implementing the solution stack at Prabhu Bank. With their in-depth understanding of local banking practices and experience in implementing Finacle, they supported an efficient and accelerated delivery.

Ashok Sherchan, Chief Executive Officer, Prabhu Bank, said, “At Prabhu Bank, we keep our customers at the center of all that we do. To power our mission and our growth strategy in the coming years, in an increasingly competitive environment, we felt the need for a modern platform to provide differentiated solutions and ultimately enhance the customer experience. With its growing deployment base in Nepal, Finacle is a proven solution for our needs. We are confident that the functionally rich and technologically advanced platform will support our growth aspiration and provide a world-class banking experience for our customers”

Sajit Vijayakumar, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Infosys Finacle, said,” Prabhu Bank now has an industry-leading core banking solution to accelerate their digital transformation at scale, while leveraging Finacle’s flexibility and openness to create differentiated and tailored offerings for its customers. Through this deployment, Prabhu Bank has also gained a strong foundation to boost agility and efficiency of operations, and significantly improve customer experience across channels. I am delighted that the transformation is delivering compelling business value for the bank, a fact that has made us the preferred partner of choice for a vast majority of banks in Nepal.”

Omesh Lal Shrestha, Managing Director, CAS Total Solutions, said, “Adopting the latest in banking technology is essential for banks in Nepal to compete and innovate in the contemporary, international banking landscape. A modern banking platform at Prabhu Bank provides the bedrock on which the bank can build its growth plan. We are delighted with the successful deployment of the industry’s leading core banking solution at Prabhu Bank to ensure that they attain their business objectives of growth and customer centricity.”

 

About Prabhu Bank

Prabhu Bank Limited is a leading banking and financial services group in Nepal. The bank is an ‘A’ class commercial bank licensed by Nepal Rastra Bank and has branches across the nation with its head office in Kathmandu. Personalized service and wide networks are key strengths of the bank. The bank has been undertaking activities such as variety of deposit schemes, loans and advances, Foreign exchange facilities, Trade financing, Inward & outward remittances, market maker for government securities, Non-Fund based service like issuing guarantees, letter of credits and many more. To learn more, visit www.prabhubank.com.

 

About Infosys Finacle

Finacle is the industry-leading digital banking solution suite from EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned product subsidiary of Infosys. Finacle helps traditional and emerging financial institutions drive truly digital transformation to achieve frictionless customer experiences, larger ecosystem play, insights–driven interactions and ubiquitous automation. Today, banks in over 100 countries rely on Finacle to service more than a billion consumers and 1.3 billion accounts.

Finacle solutions address the core banking, omnichannel banking, payments, treasury, origination, liquidity management, Islamic banking, wealth management, analytics, artificial intelligence, and blockchain requirements of financial institutions to drive business excellence. An assessment of the top 1250 banks in the world reveals that institutions powered by the Finacle Core Banking solution, on average, enjoy 7.2% points lower costs-to-income ratio than others. To know more, visit www.finacle.com.

 

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