Modernize the omnichannel journey for financial services organizations.

Christopher Young

10-14-2025

A person being targeted with personalized financial services offerings based on their profile and browsing behavior.

Financial brands that can skillfully guide customers across every channel are better positioned to deliver financial advice precisely when and where it's needed most. Today, individuals navigate complex financial paths, particularly during significant life moments such as buying a home or starting a business. They expect personalized support every step of the way.

While serving millions of unique customer needs with limited resources might seem impossible for financial services institutions, AI and rules-based automation are making it happen. Data-driven insights now enable personalized interactions at every touchpoint, ensuring a seamless and consistent customer experience throughout the journey.

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Leveraging AI to create a personalized customer experience.

A recent Forrester report commissioned by Adobe highlights the importance of having a deep understanding of a customer’s goals and preferences to provide personalized assistance on the right channel at the right moment. Proactively guiding customers along an omnichannel journey that rarely, if ever, follows a linear path is only possible with the help of technological solutions that turn data into action.

A real-time customer profile, updated instantly across all channels, provides this deep customer understanding. It fuels personalized experiences that consistently exceed expectations. Coupled with a streamlined content supply chain, marketers have access to fresh, approved content ready to drive customer engagement.

Organizations can then optimize data analysis and content management using AI and automation to guide the customer journey precisely. This strategy boosts return on investment (ROI) by delivering highly relevant offers that significantly increase engagement and conversions across all channels, both online and offline. A recent study reveals that 70% of Experience Leaders — firms that achieve significant ROI from personalization at scale — already utilize AI-powered engines to tailor messages and experiences to customers' preferred channels.

By harnessing advanced AI and automation, financial services firms can enhance the customer journey, tailoring offers and communications to meet individual needs. This means personalizing based on factors like recent interactions, historical value, and eligibility for specific products. AI helps determine if a customer needs a service update or a new marketing offer, ensuring relevant and practical experiences are delivered at the ideal time on their preferred channel. Automation, including features such as frequency capping, also prevents customers from being overwhelmed with excessive messaging. These are just a few ways AI and automation empower financial organizations to deliver more personalized, engaging, and impactful customer experiences.

Integrating generative AI for hyper-personalization.

The key to revolutionizing the omnichannel journey lies in real-time, data-driven personalization. Generative AI is now enabling financial services companies to tailor their marketing efforts with greater precision. This goes beyond simple product recommendations — it creates content, experiences, and even advice that feels uniquely crafted for each individual.

Imagine a customer browsing mortgage options. Instead of generic information, generative AI could:

This capability enables financial institutions to scale hyper-personalization, ensuring every interaction is not only relevant but also truly engaging and helpful. The result is stronger customer relationships and a faster, more seamless customer journey.

As financial services adopt AI, particularly generative AI, protecting data privacy, ensuring ethical use, and building customer trust become critical priorities. This goes beyond regulatory compliance — it’s about securing sensitive information and safeguarding brand integrity.

To ensure your omnichannel strategy remains trustworthy and compliant:

Using cross-channel insights to deliver the best experience.

To provide truly relevant and valuable experiences aligned with each customer’s unique goals, financial services organizations must track their journey in real time using cross-channel insights. Tools like predictive analytics can offer insights into what customers are likely to do next, allowing you to pivot as soon as the journey takes a turn.

Without real-time journey visibility, even sophisticated segmentation can lead to mismatched offers and missed opportunities to deepen relationships. Customers might get retargeting offers that don’t match their current financial goals — like an offer on a second mortgage when they haven’t secured their first — or be funneled into a nurture sequence they aren’t quite ready for.

When you follow your customers’ journey in real time, you can:

With an AI-driven decision engine at the helm, a customer could go from abandoning an application to reengaging with your company in a journey that looks something like this:

Illustration depicting a funnel-driven approach to boosting acquisition and conversion in financial services.

Adding value to the customer’s financial health.

Financial institutions can utilize data and intelligent decision-making to gain a deeper understanding of their customers — who they are, what they are doing, and why — while providing personalized education and guidance as they navigate across various channels. By utilizing relevant data, institutions can create personalized and timely content that enables customers to make informed choices when it matters most.

For example, a bank can proactively collect insights from marketing, transactional, and behavioral data to anticipate and prevent customer churn. If a customer stops engaging with marketing materials, their profile might reveal declining account balances and spending, coupled with an uptick in calls to the contact center, all of which may signal a financial health risk. In response, the bank can send an email offering a cash advance, knowing the customer has an upcoming direct deposit. The bank’s website might adjust its messaging to promote credit-boosting resources or articles on saving money. And if the customer contacts the call center or visits a branch, the bank representative will be well-informed about their situation and can provide tailored guidance to support their financial well-being. By prioritizing proper guidance, the bank can improve customer satisfaction and retain deposits in the long run.

When top organizations utilize data on real-time customer behavior, they are 4.8 times more likely to provide personalized experiences successfully. This level of customer engagement can only be achieved through an AI-powered decision engine that uses data to inform the creation and delivery of customized experiences.

How Adobe can help.

Customers turn to financial institutions for guidance on managing their finances, including spending, saving, borrowing, investing, and planning. Personalizing the customer experience in real time across every channel presents a clear opportunity for these organizations to strengthen relationships and establish themselves as trusted financial advisors. As a leading provider of customer experience platforms, Adobe is well-positioned to support the transformation of your team, processes, and technology, enabling you to deliver impactful experiences that drive meaningful action.

See the power of Adobe’s financial services solutions to streamline operations, automate regulatory processes, and deliver seamless, personalized customer experiences.

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