Give RBL a policy-bounded agentic layer for card collections, card servicing, and microfinance-adjacent outreach — evidence-grade conduct at lower cost, exactly when the unsecured book is under recalibration and new ownership expects operational discipline.
Mid-size private bank historically overweight credit cards and microfinance; management has publicly steered toward a more secured, diversified retail book after asset-quality stress in unsecured segments.
Public factEmirates NBD acquired a controlling ~60% stake via a ~USD 3bn primary infusion (announced October 2025, completed June 2026) — the largest FDI into Indian banking — bringing capital and a scale-up mandate.
Public factMicrofinance-sector stress in 2024-25 hit RBL's JLG book prominently; collections discipline and conduct are under both board and regulatory spotlight.
Public factCard collections and servicing are dialer- and vendor-led today; conduct compliance under RBI's recovery-agent norms is likely evidenced by sampling, not per call.
Reasoned inferenceNew ownership likely accelerates technology modernization decisions that had been capital-constrained — a window for platform choices.
Seller hypothesis — validateValidate with the account team before outreach: Post-acquisition technology-decision governance and where collections modernization sits in it · Current collections vendor structure, cost per resolved account, and conduct-QA coverage · Card-system and collections-platform API readiness
Technically capable but needs industry workflows, integration, acceleration, or managed operations
Evidence: Digitally capable (a credible app and API estate) but subscale for platform-building, capital-disciplined through recalibration, and vendor-led in collections — a partner-delivered platform with strong governance fits both capability and moment.
Why they won't build the full stack: A mid-size bank rebuilding its retail mix under new ownership will not divert engineering into speech and telephony infrastructure; it needs proven, auditable capability fast — bought and integrated, not built.
Management has publicly guided a recalibration of the unsecured mix (cards, microfinance) toward secured retail after asset-quality stress
GTM implication: Collections quality on the existing unsecured book is the bridge metric — automation that improves roll rates while evidencing conduct fits the guided story
Emirates NBD's controlling investment closed with public statements about scaling RBL's retail franchise
GTM implication: A modernization window is open: new capital, new expectations, and appetite for proven platforms over legacy vendor patterns
| Workflow | Why it matters here | Value | Complexity | Speed | Channels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Card early-bucket collections & payment reminders Policy-timed reminders in the customer's language with in-channel payment and automatic PTP follow-up; roll rates and conduct both measured per conversation. | Cards are RBL's flagship retail product; early-bucket roll rates drive credit cost on the exact book the street watches. Friction today: Dialer bursts reach few working customers; offers vary by collector; conduct QA is sampled; broken promises resurface next cycle. | VoiceWhatsAppSMS | |||
Card servicing & dispute-status deflection In-conversation resolution of top card intents with proactive dispute-status updates; humans reserved for genuine disputes. | Limit, statement, reward, EMI-conversion, and dispute-status queries dominate inbound card volume. Friction today: IVR trees route to agents who re-authenticate and swivel between card system and CRM; dispute status drives repeat calls. | VoiceApp chatWhatsApp | |||
Secured-retail activation & cross-sell follow-through Minutes-fast, consent-governed qualification on secured-product leads with bookable specialist slots; funnel instrumented end-to-end. | The strategic pivot to secured retail needs conversion machinery: timely follow-up on housing, vehicle, and business-loan leads. Friction today: Lead follow-up is telecalling-capacity-limited; speed-to-lead loses to NBFC competitors. | WhatsAppVoice |
Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.
API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.
Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.
All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with RBL Bank's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.
Why this package for RBL Bank: Two-three workflows (card collections, card servicing, retail-asset outreach) with card-system and collections-platform integration across voice and WhatsApp — a focused scale deployment for a mid-size, digitally capable bank.
Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.
“The recalibration story needs proof of operational discipline; conduct-perfect, measured collections on the card book is exactly the evidence the board and new ownership want to see.”
“A single conversational layer over card and collections systems modernizes the most vendor-fragmented part of your estate — with the audit trail RBI's recovery norms increasingly presume.”
“Collections cost per resolved account drops as routine reminders automate; vendor seats focus only on accounts a conversation cannot fix.”
“Early-bucket coverage goes to 100% attempted with per-conversation outcomes — roll-rate management becomes a dashboard, not a month-end surprise.”
“Every outreach is logged, scored, and script-bounded — per-call conduct evidence replacing sampled vendor QA on the book regulators watch most.”
“Usage pricing scales down as the unsecured book recalibrates and up as secured retail grows — no fixed-seat commitment mismatched to a balance sheet in transition.”
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Mid-size private bank with outsized credit-card and microfinance books now recalibrating toward secured retail — and, post the Emirates NBD majority investment, capital and a mandate to modernize; collections and card servicing are its most communication-intensive operations.
90-day early-bucket pilot on one card-collections segment: automated vernacular reminders with PTP follow-up, measured on roll rates, cost per resolution, and conduct scores vs the dialer baseline.
Entry: Card collections & payment reminders · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.
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