How Virtual Assistants Boost Digitalization

In partnership with SESTEK, VakıfBank developed Turkey’s smartest banking assistant, ViBi. Thanks to SESTEK’s expertise in conversational technologies, VakıfBank customers can interact with this assistant with text and natural speech and execute more than 300 transactions.
3x
accurate word-based recognition
3.5M+
increase in number of self-service transactions
Industry
Finance&Banking
Company size
Enterprise
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"ViBi became a best practice in the sector, both with its contributions to customer engagement and self-service rates. Considering long-term IT investments, we completed and launched the project in only 6 months. This is the result of a successful collaboration between VakıfBank and SESTEK teams."
Vakıfbank

The Challenge

As a part of its digitalization strategy, VakıfBank was planning to promote its existing mobile banking application and increase the self-service rates at this channel. The bank was searching for a smart banking assistant solution to help customers execute the requested transactions.

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The Solution

In partnership with SESTEK, VakıfBank developed Turkey’s smartest banking assistant, ViBi. Thanks to SESTEK’s expertise in conversational technologies, VakıfBank customers can interact with this assistant with text and natural speech.

Company name
Vakıfbank
Company size
Enterprise
Pain point
Low self-service rates
SESTEK product used
AI Agents
About company
VakıfBank is the fourth largest bank in Turkey in terms of asset size. Serving more than 15 million customers, the bank also offers internet and telephone banking services. More than 90% of all banking transactions are done through its digital channels.
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