{"id":25048,"date":"2016-04-26T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/barclays-will-be-the-first-bank-to-employ-chatbot-in-africa-to-handle-online-banking-queries"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:04:17","slug":"barclays-will-be-the-first-bank-to-employ-chatbot-in-africa-to-handle-online-banking-queries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/barclays-will-be-the-first-bank-to-employ-chatbot-in-africa-to-handle-online-banking-queries","title":{"rendered":"Barclays will be the first bank to employ chatbot in Africa to handle online banking queries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/barclays-will-be-the-first-bank-to-employ-chatbot-in-africa-to-handle-online-banking-queries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barclays bots.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As part its efforts to become the most intelligent bank Barclays Africa, a subsidiary Absa, announced on Tuesday that it would pilot a chatbot that relies on artificial intelligence to simulate intelligent conversation through written or spoken text with customers online.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot will be implemented within the coming few weeks, making it the first bank to do so in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The trial of the chatbots not only marks a transformation in the way the bank will engage with customers, but further underscores its efforts to become the most intelligent bank.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/techfinancials.co.za\/2016\/04\/barclays-will-be-the-first-bank-to-employ-chatbot-in-africa-to-handle-online-banking-queries\/\">http:\/\/techfinancials.co.za\/2016\/04\/barclays-will-be-the-fir...g-queries\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barclays bots. As part its efforts to become the most intelligent bank Barclays Africa, a subsidiary Absa, announced on Tuesday that it would pilot a chatbot that relies on artificial intelligence to simulate intelligent conversation through written or spoken text with customers online. The pilot will be implemented within the coming few weeks, making it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56339,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048\/revisions\/56339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}