Creditplus Bank AG
Bank automates and streamlines manual workflows by digitizing the loan payment process.
Banks are under considerable pressure to digitize their services and processes to make them more customer-friendly. They need to strike a balance between innovation and efficiency and adopt a holistic approach to the digitization of processes to ensure they remain competitive.
Creditplus Bank AG has successfully modernized their approach to loan processing, thanks to a digital solution: a digital loan payment process application that helps the bank process loan applications faster and reduce costs. In doing so, the bank has shown a flair for innovation — as well as making things more customer-friendly and improving costs.
Digital loan payment process application
The digital loan payment process comprises various workflows that had previously been manual and paper-based. Depending on the risk assessment for a loan agreement, certain documents are required before it can be issued, such as proof of income, some form of personal identity, etc. The filing, checking and assessment of these documents are now mapped in digital processes.
The integration of other business applications from various departments within the bank has made it possible to map workflows end-to-end across several systems.
Our customers expect their money to hit their account fast. This is why automating the loan payment process was so important for us. Alfresco platform and it-novum were there to support us along the way with the right level of commitment to our success and technical experience needed to modernize our banking operations.
— Torsten Bauer, Director of Operations, Creditplus Bank AG
Digital inbox replaces manual tasks
Thanks to a digital inbox, the staff at Creditplus Bank AG are assigned their tasks and documents automatically. Intelligent selection criteria ensures the appropriate person responsible for the task and the right documents are chosen. This allows employees to concentrate on the technical aspects of their work and relieves them of certain manual activities.
Digitalization eliminates many paper-based processes and the associated drawbacks, such as documents only being available to the employee reviewing them at that time and people having to wait for documents to begin their step in the process. Electronic documents can now be stored at a central location, given meta tags and browsed by anyone using a full-text search capability. Documents associated with applications are now easier to find.
Lower processing costs, greater transparency
As well as helping reduce processing times, the digitized loan processing has reduced the costs per loan application processed. And the transparency of the process has improved, which makes it easier to manage the workload involved. Another benefit is how users can see the current status of applications in the system at any given time. This has greatly improved the customer experience.
Innovative process management
The bank selected it-novum, an Alfresco Strategic Partner, to help digitize its loan payment process. With the solution built on Alfresco Process Services, an enterprise business process management solution, the application was designed and implemented, including back-end integration with other business applications.
The loan application processes were mapped with Alfresco’s Process Services and a front-end, user interface built with Alfresco’s Application Development Framework (ADF) — modern JavaScript-based framework to rapidly build engaging web applications. The ADF was used to implement the end-user requirements very quickly with the agile methodology, thanks to the option of reusable Angular-based UI components and services.
As a result, Creditplus Bank AG was able to accelerate the introduction of the digital loan application process to improve the customer and employee experience, and increase their competitive advantage.