{"id":122391,"date":"2026-07-29T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/122391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:00:15","slug":"ocbc-to-use-agentic-ai-to-cut-wealth-onboarding-time-to-15-business-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/122391\/","title":{"rendered":"OCBC to use agentic AI to cut wealth onboarding time to 15 business days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">The Helios platform will move the due diligence process before the relationship manager meets a prospective customer<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] OCBC is looking to cut onboarding time for its wealth clients to 15 business days using agentic artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Called Helios, the platform will comprise five separate agents that will cut time for the bank down from the current industry median of around six weeks, the lender said on Wednesday (Jul 29).<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">This follows announcements by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to reduce account opening timelines in the private banking industry to within one month, by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Loretta Yuen, OCBC\u2019s head of group legal and compliance, said: \u201cThis is a paradigm shift for compliance where we are not just enabling business, but originating opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">OCBC noted that the bank has been working to cut onboarding time, with its current average more than 30 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">\u201cThe beauty of the system was it was built by compliance,\u201d said Bank of Singapore (BOS) CEO Jason Moo. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t built by the tech person or from the business side, (the compliance team) can build their standards already into the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The Helios platform will move the due diligence process before the relationship manager meets a prospective customer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">It will provide relationship managers with individuals\u2019 key data, information and credit risk profiles upfront while highlighting information gaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">This enables relationship managers to quickly obtain the missing data from customers and reduces the back-and-forth between the customer, relationship manager and the bank\u2019s compliant unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-6 border-b border-gray-250 pb-4 font-poppins text-4xs font-medium tracking-10 text-gray-515\">SEE ALSO<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"block h-full w-full\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/companies-markets\/mas-partners-finance-industry-players-develop-safeguards-ai-agents?ref=article-see-also\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"relative z-10 h-full w-full object-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6110443810acc0264423a37e78f962274a5a5fbd28859c245d2ccc29cff026a3.webp\" alt=\"The framework is developed under MAS\u2019 BuildFin.ai initiative \u2013 a programme which supports the responsible development and deployment of AI solutions in the financial sector.\" width=\"4930\" height=\"3287\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The time freed up for the compliance unit will also allow it to pivot to advisory research or perform more AI-related analyses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The current industry practice is for know-your-customer screenings and risk assessments to be conducted only after the relationship manager submits source of wealth information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">OCBC\u2019s private banking unit BOS has tested the platform on 25 per cent of its relationship managers over the past five months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The platform is set to be rolled out across BOS by the third quarter of 2026. OCBC also plans to extend Helios to its premier private clients by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Four of the five agents are already in play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The first agent conducts prospect research, which supports pre-onboarding due diligence. The second is in charge of onboarding recommendation, which highlights remaining profile gaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The next one is a leads generator, which identifies associates of current prospects and helps relationship managers identify higher-quality leads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The fourth is an independent agent that checks the other agents for accuracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">OCBC noted that most information will be verified and checked by this agent, and whatever remains will be checked by a human.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6 inline-block\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The fifth agent that looks at ongoing monitoring of existing clients is set to be ready by the first half of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Helios platform will move the due diligence process before the relationship manager meets a prospective customer [SINGAPORE]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,7493,25,61792,3815],"class_list":["post-122391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ocbc","tag-wealth-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}