Data Cloud for Banking & Wealth Management

Executive Summary

A leading financial institution struggled with fragmented customer data across core banking, credit

cards, mortgages, wealth management, and digital channels. This siloed data landscape resulted in

incomplete customer views, slow onboarding, inconsistent compliance management, missed cross-sell opportunities, and poor personalization of financial services. By deploying Salesforce Data Cloud, company unified data into a single real-time customer profile with robust identity resolution, advanced segmentation, and consent-aware activation. Within the first year, company achieved a 15% increase in cross-sell conversions, reduced onboarding time by 40%, cut compliance reporting effort by 35%, and enhanced digital engagement by 20%.

Industry

Financial Services – Banking & Wealth Management

Solution Overview

Company implemented Salesforce Data Cloud to:

• Unify customer financial, transactional, and behavioral data into a golden profile.

• Resolve identities across multiple lines of business (retail, wealth, credit).

• Generate calculated insights on customer lifetime value, credit risk, product propensity, and

  channel preferences.

• Activate personalized financial offers, proactive service alerts, and cross-channel campaigns.

• Strengthen compliance with consent-driven activation, lineage tracking, and audit-ready

  governance.

  
  

Business Challenges

1. Data fragmentation: Customer records spread across core banking, credit card, mortgage, and investment platforms created silos.

2. Onboarding inefficiencies: Manual verification and fragmented data sources delayed customer onboarding.

3. Missed cross-sell opportunities: Relationship managers lacked visibility into holistic customer

   portfolios and product gaps.

4. Compliance risks: Inconsistent consent and jurisdictional data privacy management across

   regions.

5. Weak personalization: Generic product offers led to poor digital engagement and low adoption of self-service.

6. Delayed risk insights: Credit and fraud signals weren’t available in real-time for frontline staff.

How Data Cloud Solves These Challenges

1. Unified Profiles & Identity Resolution

   
   

   Consolidated data from core banking, CRM, wealth systems, digital apps, and credit bureaus into

   a 360° golden profile using deterministic and probabilistic matching.

   
   

2. Faster, Smarter Onboarding

   
   

   Leveraged unified data and real-time verification for KYC and AML checks, reducing onboarding

   timelines by 40%.

   
   

3. Cross-Sell & Upsell Enablement

• Built calculated insights for product propensity (e.g., likelihood to adopt wealth advisory services for high-deposit customers).

• Equipped advisors and relationship managers with unified insights in Sales Cloud.

4. Compliance & Data Governance

   
   

   Centralized consent, data retention, and policy labels ensured activation only to compliant

   channels per GDPR, CPRA, and regional banking laws.

   
   

5. Real-Time Risk & Fraud Signals

   
   

   Streamed fraud alerts, credit score changes, and suspicious activity into Data Cloud, triggering

   real-time alerts in Service Cloud and proactive outreach.

   
   

6. Personalized Engagement

   
   

   Enabled Marketing Cloud to deliver personalized campaigns, financial wellness tips, and

   loan/mortgage offers based on life events and behaviors.

   
   

Implementation Approach

Timeline: 26 Weeks (Phased)

Phase 0 – Mobilize (Weeks 1–3)

• Define KPIs (onboarding time reduction, cross-sell increase, compliance efficiency).

• Establish governance framework and regulatory alignment.

Phase 1 – Data Foundation (Weeks 4–8)

• Provision Data Cloud, set up ingestion pipelines from CRM, core banking, credit, mortgage, and

  wealth systems.

• Configure data model mappings and define identity resolution rules.

Phase 2 – Unified Profiles (Weeks 9–12)

• Implement match/merge for golden profiles; validate customer coverage and duplicate

  resolution.

Phase 3 – Insights & Segmentation (Weeks 13–17)

• Develop Calculated Insights (e.g., customer lifetime value, churn risk, cross-sell propensity).

• Create Segments such as “High-net-worth clients without wealth management products.”

Phase 4 – Activation (Weeks 18–22)

• Connect Data Cloud to Marketing Cloud and Sales Cloud for personalized offers, onboarding

  journeys, and financial wellness campaigns.

• Stream fraud and credit events into Service Cloud for proactive support.

Phase 5 – Governance Scale (Weeks 23–26)

• Automate monitoring of data quality, consent management, and policy compliance.

• Expand to additional regions and new product lines (insurance, small-business banking).

Results and Business Impact (First Year)

• +15% increase in cross-sell conversions due to unified profiles and propensity-driven offers.

• −40% onboarding time through automated verification and real-time KYC.

• +20% improvement in digital engagement (mobile app usage, campaign response rates).

• −35% compliance reporting effort due to centralized consent and audit-ready governance.

• +18% increase in customer satisfaction scores for advisory and support interactions.

• −25% fraud incident resolution time with real-time alerts and proactive outreach.

Architecture (High-Level)

• Sources: Core banking systems, CRM, mortgage systems, wealth management platforms, credit bureaus, digital/mobile apps, fraud detection engines.

• Data Cloud Core: Data streams → Identity resolution → Consent & policy governance →

  Calculated Insights → Segments.

• Activation:

  - To Marketing Cloud (personalized campaigns, onboarding journeys).

  - To Sales Cloud (next-best product recommendations, portfolio visibility).

  - To Service Cloud (fraud alerts, proactive case creation).

  - To Analytics (financial KPIs, churn dashboards, compliance tracking).

• Governance: Data lineage, sensitivity labels, jurisdictional policies, retention management.

Use Cases Implemented

1. Wealth Management Upsell: High-deposit customers without investment products targeted

   with personalized advisory offers.

2. Proactive Fraud Alerts: Credit score drop or suspicious transactions trigger immediate Service

   Cloud case and customer notification.

3. Onboarding Optimization: Data-driven verification streamlines KYC, AML, and credit checks.

4. Life Event Targeting: Customers showing digital signals for major life events (marriage, home

   purchase) receive tailored mortgage or loan offers.

   
   

Data Governance & Compliance Considerations

• Regional compliance: GDPR, CPRA, Basel III, and local banking laws enforced via activation policies.

• Consent and preference data centralized in Data Cloud.

• Field-level source-of-truth precedence (credit score, income, KYC attributes).

• Automated subject-rights workflows for data deletion and portability.

KPIs & Measurement

• Onboarding time reduction.

• Cross-sell/upsell conversion lift.

• Digital engagement rates.

• Fraud detection and response time.

• Duplicate record reduction.

• Compliance audit outcomes.

Conclusion

By implementing Salesforce Data Cloud, company unified siloed financial data into real-time, actionable customer profiles. This enabled faster onboarding, smarter cross-sell, stronger fraud detection, and enhanced digital engagement all while reducing compliance risks. The solution created measurable financial and operational improvements and positioned company to scale customer insights across additional business lines and geographies. Future phases will integrate open banking APIs, expand predictive credit modeling, and deepen personalization across digital channels.

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